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Page 227<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It would alter the whole character of our meetings, don’t you<\/i><\/p>\n think?…<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I wasn’t keen on it. (Mother looks relieved)<\/i> <\/i>I think it’s better she doesn’t come. *** <\/p>\n Wouldn’t it be good to do the rest of the "Program for Auroville"<\/i><\/p>\n with Aurovilians, since you started it?…<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I had them speak to see what they would tell me…. Almost all of them are terribly lazy, so I’d like to tell them that manual work … (Mother writes)<\/i> <\/p>\n 4. Work, even manual work, is indispensable to<\/p>\n the inner one does not put one’s consciousness into<\/p>\n matter, it will never develop. To let conscious<\/p>\n ness organize some matter through ones body<\/p>\n is very good. To put things in order around<\/p>\n oneself helps to put things in order in oneself.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Another point: <\/p>\n One should organize one’s life not according<\/p>\n to external to an organized inner consciousness, because<\/p>\n if one leaves life alone without imposing on<\/p>\n it the control of a higher consciousness, it<\/p>\n becomes hazy and inexpressive. It means<\/p>\n wasting one’s time, in the sense that matter<\/p>\n remains without conscious utilization.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n *** Have you seen the aphorism? (Satprem reads)<\/i> Page 228<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 534 – The rejection of falsehood by the mind seeking after<\/p>\n truth the settled, rounded and perfect truth; not to escape false<\/p>\n hood is the effort of divine mind, but to seize the truth <\/p>\n far-wandering error.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Mother comments:)<\/i> Sri Aurobindo calls "divine<\/p>\n mind" totally and perfectly surrendered to the Divine and<\/p>\n functions under the divine inspiration alone.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If a human being lives only by and for the Divine,<\/p>\n his *** (Then Mother takes up the reading of <\/i>Savitri: the end the Debate of Love and Death.)<\/i> Is it a speech by this gentleman? <\/p>\n Yes [laughing], yes, it’s the end.<\/i><\/p>\n The end of his speech? One of us should write…. If it’s more convenient for me to write, I’ll write. <\/p>\n It’s always better to have your handwriting! But if it tires it’s quite easy for me to note it down.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n "Tires," oh no! It’s just that it [Mothers handwriting] is no longer good. It’s no longer as it should be – but it doesn’t tire me. So we’ll put: (Mother writes her French translation<\/i> of <\/p>\n If thou art Spirit and Nature is thy robe,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cast off thy garb and be thy naked self<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Immutable in its undying truth,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alone for ever in the mute Alone.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Turn then to God, for him leave all behind;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Forgetting Love, forgetting Satyavan, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Annul thyself in his immobile peace.<\/p>\n \n Page 229<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n O soul, drown in his still beatitude. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For thou must die to thyself …<\/p>\n That’s for sure! Thou must die to thyself to reach … à la suprématie divine<\/i> [divine supremacy]?… <\/p>\n "To reach the divine heights"? <\/i><\/p>\n No, we must put "God" in Death’s mouth. <\/p>\n For thou must die to thyself to reach God’s height:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I, Death, am …<\/p>\n Happiness? <\/p>\n I, Death, am the gate of immortality.<\/p>\n Savitri,<\/i> X.IV.647 He’s clever<\/i>! Every time you read it again, it’s new. But that’s a very interesting phenomenon. Every time I read Savitri,<\/i> I feel as if I am reading it for the first time, really. It’s not that I understand differently, it’s that its completely new: I never read it before! It’s odd. Its at least the fourth time I read it. And truly there’s everything in it. All the things I’ve discovered lately were there. And I hadn’t seen it. It’s odd. The first time I read it was a revelation; it hung together perfectly well from beginning to end, and I felt I had understood (I did understand something). The second time I read it, I said to myself, "But this isn’t the same thing as what I read!…" It hung together, it made up a whole – and I understood something else. Then, recently when I read, at every passage I said to myself, "How new this is! And how the things I have found since are there!" Today again, that’s how it is, as if I read it for the first time! And it puts me into contact with the things I have just discovered. It’s a miraculous book! (Mother laughs)<\/i> We’ll continue in the same way. 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