{"id":6215,"date":"2013-07-13T02:06:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:06:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:28","slug":"24-march-23-1968-vol-09-volume-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/09-volume-09\/24-march-23-1968-vol-09-volume-09","title":{"rendered":"-24_March 23_1968.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>March 23, 1968<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Satprem read Mother the end of the Playground Talk of June<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;3,<br \/>\n1953, about Karma: &quot;In all religions, when people said tha<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;[the<br \/>\nconsequences of Karma were strict] and gave such abso<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>lute<br \/>\nrules, as for me, I think it was to take the place of Nature<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;and<br \/>\npull people&#8217;s strings&#8230;. So then they panic, they get terri<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i><br \/>\nfied &#8230; &#8211; they should just go to the next floor up. What should<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;be<br \/>\ngiven them is the key to open the door. The staircase has a<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;door,<br \/>\nand it needs a key. The key is a sufficiently sincere <\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>aspiration or a sufficiently intense prayer&#8230;. In both there<br \/>\nis a<\/i><P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 87<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;magic power, one must know how to use it&#8230;. Some<br \/>\ndetest<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;prayer (if they went to the bottom of their<br \/>\nhearts, they would<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;see it&#8217;s out of pride). And there<br \/>\nare those who have no aspira<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>tion, who try but can&#8217;t<br \/>\naspire &#8211; that&#8217;s because they don&#8217;t have <\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>the flame of will, they don&#8217;t have the flame of humility.<br \/>\nBoth<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;are needed: to change one&#8217;s Karma, one must<br \/>\nhave a very great<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;humility and a very great will.&quot;)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>When did I say that?<\/p>\n<p><i>In 1953.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Strange. There&#8217;s an IMMENSE sorrow behind, something very vast, very strong. It&#8217;s strange. Like an association with human sorrow&#8230;. It&#8217;s strange.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">* * *<br \/>\n<P><i>Later<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I am going through decisive moments. But it&#8217;s very difficult.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s the transfer of the nervous system. I said that everything was being &#8220;transferred,&#8221; one thing after another; now, it&#8217;s the nervous system. That&#8217;s &#8230; very difficult. Very difficult.<br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;ll talk about it later.<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 88<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 23, 1968 (Satprem read Mother the end of the Playground Talk of June&nbsp;3, 1953, about Karma: &quot;In all religions, when people said tha&nbsp;[the consequences&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-09-volume-09","wpcat-144-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}