{"id":6332,"date":"2013-07-13T02:07:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:07:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:06","slug":"20-april-16-1963-vol-04-volume-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/04-volume-04\/20-april-16-1963-vol-04-volume-04","title":{"rendered":"-20_April 16_1963.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>April 16, 1963<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Satprem did not keep note of the beginning of this conversation or of the &#8220;personal&#8221; questions and the circumstances that led to the situation. It seems that X had invited Satprem to his place, in spite of their break, and wanted to continue with him the Tantric sadhana.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>From a deeper standpoint, what connection should I have with X? If I go there, there will be some interchange despite everything, won&#8217;t there?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>He may influence you, because you were under his influence in the beginning. He does have the power to influence you &#8211; to enclose you in his own atmosphere. But he cannot keep you imprisoned! That&#8217;s not possible, you are beyond his grasp! So, if &#8230; (how can I put it?) if you can learn to receive his force without being enclosed in his thought, that&#8217;s very good. Or rather to receive his force without being impressed or influenced by his thought &#8211; the thought is very narrow, but the force is very strong.<br \/>\n<P>He does put you in contact with a peace, it&#8217;s a fact &#8211; a boxed-in peace, but<br \/>\na peace all the same, a real peace, a concrete, concrete stillness. So the thing<br \/>\nto be done (because that peace is perceptible I&#8217;ve had the experience of it so<br \/>\nmany times) is to remain very<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 112<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;objective within that peace; then you can benefit from the peace<br \/>\nwithout accepting its limits. You should, for instance, be able to keep that<br \/>\npeace in the cells (the brain cells if you feel tired) without allowing yourself<br \/>\nto be enclosed like that. There is no need to struggle, just remain turned<br \/>\nupward&#8230;. It&#8217;s very hard to explain. But maybe you will experience it, then<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll understand what I mean.<br \/>\n<P>There is always a vibration subtler than his vibration of peace, and that one must remain free, without getting enclosed in the other. For example, if something pulls and causes a mental tension in the head, just keep in contact with that peace (oh, he does have a capacity of mental immobility), and let it penetrate you, but without concentrating all your being on it: allow the rest of your activity to unfold as usual in an infinity. It&#8217;s only the vibrations of the physical mind that you should keep in that stability.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s difficult to put it into words. But if you are able to do that, it could do you good, it could be restful.<br \/>\n<P>My experience, you see, is that his mental silence is rigid &#8211; rigid, closed &#8211; but the mental substance, the brain&#8217;s physical substance really rests, his silence can rid you of a headache, for instance.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s a very, very material vibration, he has some mastery there.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">(What follows was unfortunately not kept.)<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 113<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 16, 1963 (Satprem did not keep note of the beginning of this conversation or of the &#8220;personal&#8221; questions and the circumstances that led to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-04-volume-04","wpcat-145-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","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=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}