{"id":6277,"date":"2013-07-13T02:06:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:06:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:48","slug":"79-october-16-1968-vol-09-volume-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/09-volume-09\/79-october-16-1968-vol-09-volume-09","title":{"rendered":"-79_October 16_1968.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>October 16, 1968<\/H3><br \/>\n<P>What do you have to say? Nothing?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s sad to see you like this.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>I don&#8217;t understand what&#8217;s going on. Unless it&#8217;s all the same thing [from the Vatican], but then it&#8217;s really very obstinate.<\/p>\n<p><i>Oh, the other day, I got a wave of their magic. It came back and went away. It remained for a day.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Ah?<\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s something that takes hold of the brain and leaves you in a daze.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>No, today it isn&#8217;t the brain, it&#8217;s &#8230; <i>(After a long silence) <\/i>I can&#8217;t even say what it is.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 281<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>Doesn&#8217;t Sri Aurobindo say anything?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>I haven&#8217;t seen him these last few days.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(long silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I don&#8217;t understand.<br \/>\n<P>I do nothing but cough all the time.<br \/>\n<P>This state I am in now began this morning, it&#8217;s quite new. Yesterday, I was in pain, but it was physical. This is something different.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s strange&#8230;. The consciousness has become more and more, more and more intense <i>(gesture spread out above), <\/i>something like this <i>(same gesture), <\/i>dominating everything and &#8230; I think the most accurate way to put it is, not active.<br \/>\n<P>This [the body] is like something floating within this consciousness, but it&#8217;s not active.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I can&#8217;t explain.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s like an ocean of light that keeps doing its work, and then, in it, there floats something &#8230; <i>(Mother shakes her head as if not knowing what this &#8220;something,&#8221; her body, is).<\/i><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s not cut off, [[Mother means that this &#8220;something&#8221; (her body) is not cut off from the ocean of light, only it is not active. ]] but not active, that&#8217;s all.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>For instance, every morning I see four people; I don&#8217;t speak, but the consciousness is fully there, it works, does its work with a power of concentration. Then they go away &#8211; and it goes away.<br \/>\n<P>But this [the body] doesn&#8217;t even have the sense of being an instrument, you understand&#8230;. I don&#8217;t know what it is. It&#8217;s not an instrument. I don&#8217;t know what it is.<br \/>\n<P><i>(Mother &#8220;looks&#8221;) <\/i>It&#8217;s deep ultramarine blue. Do you know that color?&#8230; That&#8217;s it.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(long silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Don&#8217;t you have anything to ask? We could see if it makes<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 282<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;something come <i>(gesture of contact with the ocean)?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No, I was surprised that Sri Aurobindo didn&#8217;t come to tell you<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;what&#8217;s<br \/>\n  going on or anyway to explain&#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Yes, he did: yesterday morning, I had an attack (for the first time in my life), an attack of stomach cramps, very painful, and like a child I asked to be cured &#8211; and he cured me! I saw him, felt him&#8230;. But you see, he is interested in this [the transformation], that&#8217;s all.<br \/>\n<P>Of course, there is a reason, something that for some reason isn&#8217;t revealed to me. All this isn&#8217;t useless &#8211; not in the least, and also not &#8230; (what&#8217;s the word?) <i>unexpected, you <\/i>understand?<br \/>\n<P>Things seem to be organized for something to happen &#8211; what? I do not know.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I think we must patiently wait until things have run their course.<\/p>\n<p><i>Yes, all that is certainly for a reason, it&#8217;s certain.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes.<br \/>\n<P>We&#8217;ll know afterwards.<br \/>\n<P>Oh, last night, I think, there was a whole activity with P.L., I don&#8217;t know what.<br \/>\n<P>At night, things constantly happen, but I don&#8217;t remember &#8211; I am deliberately not allowed to remember.<br \/>\n<P>Of course, one doesn&#8217;t want this [the body] to tire itself. One wants it to remain quite still, very still, as still as possible, for some reason or other.<br \/>\n<P>We mustn&#8217;t fret, we must wait patiently, and we&#8217;ll see.<br \/>\n<P>We&#8217;ll see.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother goes into<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;a long<br \/>\ncontemplation)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Not to worry.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s obviously not the time to say anything.<br \/>\n<P>We&#8217;ll see.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(before leaving,<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;Satprem lays his<br \/>\nforehead<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;on Mother&#8217;s knees) <\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 283<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>I don&#8217;t at all have a sense of weakness, not at all <i>(gesture of descent of the Force). <\/i>That is, it [the Force from above] is always there.<\/p>\n<p><i>Oh, yes!&#8230; Yes, it&#8217;s there! <\/i>[[As usual, an awesome cataract when one is at her feet. ]]<\/p>\n<p><P>Something is going on, we&#8217;ll see.<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 284<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 16, 1968 What do you have to say? Nothing?&#8230; It&#8217;s sad to see you like this. I don&#8217;t understand what&#8217;s going on. 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