{"id":6296,"date":"2013-07-13T02:06:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:06:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:54","slug":"99-december-28-1968-vol-09-volume-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/09-volume-09\/99-december-28-1968-vol-09-volume-09","title":{"rendered":"-99_December 28_1968.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>December 28, 1968<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(After listening to the music composed by Sunil<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;for<br \/>\nthe New Year.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Did you like it?<\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s very beautiful, very powerful.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Isn&#8217;t it! And it creates an atmosphere.<br \/>\n<P>Usually I play some music for him, and he composes from it, but this time I didn&#8217;t play, so he took some old pieces of mine; with that he makes contact and composes.<br \/>\n<P>An American musician has come here, and I sent him to Sunil (he&#8217;s a pianist). He said he&#8217;d heard some of Sunil&#8217;s music there, in America, and at first people are a bit bewildered, but that when they&#8217;ve heard it several times, they become quite enthusiastic.<br \/>\n<P>As for me, I find it creates an atmosphere: it BRINGS DOWN an atmosphere.<br \/>\n<P>And the human voice is quite lovely, well mingled.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">* * *<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Then Mother listens to the conversation of December 21: <br \/>the &#8220;universal box.&#8221;) <\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 357<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>It&#8217;s going on, day after day after day.<br \/>\n<P>And the same thing never happens twice: either it&#8217;s another spot in the body having the experience (another activity, another movement in the body), or it&#8217;s an unresolved detail, or else &#8230; There&#8217;s a whole field &#8211; a huge field &#8211; of studies and observations, precisely about the relationship with other bodies and the extent to which this body does work for other bodies. It&#8217;s very interesting &#8211; oh, very interesting! Because all that is taking place without the intermediary of thought. So the body has a sensation or an experience, or it perceives a disorder, or &#8230; and it acts on that; then, after a while, it notices it&#8217;s not about itself, it&#8217;s another [body]. That&#8217;s how it acts.<br \/>\n<P>All that still seems to be in a limited field, but I am not sure it&#8217;s not far more general. All the time (almost all the time), there seems to be an intervention of the psychic, as if the psychic made the body remember (I don&#8217;t know how to put it), made the body remember its universality, and as if it weren&#8217;t only for itself that the body is expressing movements of consciousness &#8211; the movements of the higher Consciousness that it expresses: the effect is general.<br \/>\n<P>We&#8217;ll know that. We&#8217;ll know all that &#8230; later, in &#8230;<br \/>\n<P>But the body has a strange sensation, really strange, of being as vast as the earth, even vaster (it can&#8217;t be expressed, because that&#8217;s not the true way of saying it), but there&#8217;s something like this: a sort of inner identity expressing itself in the plane &#8230; <i>(Mother searches for words) &#8230; <\/i>In the higher Consciousness, it has an effect. I don&#8217;t know how to put it.<br \/>\n<P>And in that consciousness, the strange thing is the importance of one minute, which to our consciousness is nothing &#8211; there it has an importance&#8230;. In one minute, something &#8230; general can be done. Naturally, all words are stupid, but that&#8217;s how it is. One minute.<br \/>\n<P>In one minute &#8230; To such a point that the body perceives that one minute like this <i>(Mother slightly rotates two fingers)<\/i> is a victory; and one minute like that <i>(Mother rotates her two fingers the other way)<\/i> is a catastrophe. And not only for itself (for itself, it&#8217;s on a small scale and concentrated, it&#8217;s not the same thing), but it&#8217;s general.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s an observation that began today (for hours, you know), and quite<br \/>\nacutely. But it&#8217;s new &#8211; new in its ASPECT; it&#8217;s the continuation of all that<br \/>\npreceded, but in the aspect it has taken on, it&#8217;s completely new. In other<br \/>\nwords, the body consciousness may be<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 358<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;becoming aware of it in a new way.<br \/>\n<P>All that is an approximation. After some time, maybe it will be more precise.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s the quality of time that&#8217;s changing.<br \/>\n<P>There&#8217;s a sort of intensity of consciousness that alters the value of time (I don&#8217;t know how to put it).<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s a beginning.<br \/>\n<P>We&#8217;ll see.<br \/>\n<P>All that isn&#8217;t expressed well, but how should it be expressed? I don&#8217;t know. Later, perhaps.<br \/>\n<P>So I&#8217;ll see you next year, on the very first day of the year.<\/p>\n<p><i>On Wednesday?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes, it&#8217;s the first day of the year! <i>(Mother laughs with mischievous<\/i><P> <i>&nbsp;delight)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 359<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 28, 1968 (After listening to the music composed by Sunil&nbsp;for the New Year.) Did you like it? It&#8217;s very beautiful, very powerful. 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