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"It is much easier for the Sadhak [disciple] by<\/p>\n
faith in the Mother to get free from illness than<\/p>\n
for the Mother to keep free – because the Mother<\/p>\n
by the very nature of her work had to identify<\/p>\n
herself with the Sadhaks, to support all their<\/p>\n
difficulties, to receive into herself all the poison<\/p>\n
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"…<\/i> to take up besides all the difficulties of the<\/p>\n
universal earth-Nature, including the possibility<\/p>\n
of death and disease in order to fight them out. <\/p>\n
If she had not done that, not a single Sadhak<\/p>\n
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"… The Divine has to put on humanity … <\/p>\n
"Put on humanity…." This is fine!
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8 May 1933 <\/i>The Mother, 25.317<\/i>
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"People in the Ashram believe that their difficulties <\/i><\/p>\n
and illnesses are taken by the Mother on herself<\/i><\/p>\n
and therefore she has sometimes to suffer. But at<\/i><\/p>\n
that rate there would be too much onrush of these<\/i><\/p>\n
things on her from many Sadhaks. An idea comes<\/i><\/p>\n
to me of taking upon myself some of these difficul<\/i><\/p>\n
ties and illnesses so that I can also suffer with her<\/i><\/p>\n
pleasantly?"<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
(Mother laughs a lot)<\/i> Pleasantly!… With a question mark.
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"Pleasantly? It would be anything but pleasant<\/p>\n
either for you or for us.
"It is rather a crude statement of a fact. The<\/p>\n
Mother in order to do her work had to take all<\/p>\n
the Sadhaks inside her personal being and con<\/p>\n
sciousness; thus personally (not merely imper<\/p>\n
sonally) taken inside, all the disturbances and<\/p>\n
difficulties in them including illnesses could<\/p>\n
throw themselves upon her in a way that could<\/p>\n
not have happened if she had not renounced the<\/p>\n
self-protection of separateness. Not only illnesses <\/p>\n
Page 263<\/font><\/p>\n of others could translate themselves into attacks <\/p>\n on her body – these she could generally throw off<\/p>\n as soon as she knew from what quarter and why<\/p>\n it came – but their inner difficulties, revolts, <\/p>\n outbursts of anger and hatred against her could<\/p>\n have the same and a worse effect….<\/p>\n<\/p>\n That’s still true…. With some people, as soon as they come, I’ll suddenly feel a disorder, or I’ll start coughing, or … Then when I look, I see why. When I see why, I can keep the thing at a distance. It’s curious. <\/p>\n "… That was the only danger for her (because<\/p>\n inner That’s so true! For that, a smile is enough. <\/p>\n "… but matter and the body are the weak point or<\/p>\n crucial point of our Yoga, since this province has<\/p>\n never been conquered by the spiritual Power, the<\/p>\n old Yogas having either left it alone or used on<\/p>\n it only a detail mental and vital force, not the<\/p>\n general spiritual force. It was the reason why<\/p>\n after a serious illness caused by a terribly bad<\/p>\n state of the Ashram atmosphere …<\/p>\n<\/p>\n (Mother laughs)<\/i> <\/p>\n "…<\/i> I had to insist on her partial retirement so as<\/p>\n to minimise the most concrete part of the pres<\/p>\n sure upon her. Naturally, the full conquest of the<\/p>\n physical would revolutionise matters, but as yet<\/p>\n it is the struggle."<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 31 March 1934<\/i> <\/i>The Mother, 25.317<\/i> How what he says remains true – that’s first rate! <\/p>\n Is the "revolution" still far away, or close? <\/i><\/p>\n Alas! (Mother laughs)<\/i> *** Page 264<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Soon afterwards<\/i><\/p>\n They told me you’re seeing … (Mother tries to recall a name) <\/i>Someone who sees you often, whom I don’t know. <\/p>\n I see lots of them!<\/i><\/p>\n So it seems!… How come? <\/p>\n I wonder what I should do, in fact.<\/i><\/p>\n When do you see them? <\/p>\n They’ve found the way: I’ll go out and …<\/i><\/p>\n (Mother laughs a lot)<\/i> That’s right! So you go out of your home … <\/p>\n I go out in the evening around 5:30 for a bit of fresh air. go to the Samadhi – they catch me at the Samadhi and go<\/i><\/p>\n around with me; then they come up to the beach and stay with<\/i><\/p>\n me until I come home…. So I see all kinds. I see lots of them.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Are some interesting? <\/p>\n Yes. I let them, because I feel it’s useful. [[Satprem will abundantly carry on with this until 1971. Then he will abruptly close his door when people will start referring to him as a guru. ]] <\/i><\/p>\n Oh, useful, certainly, but you shouldn’t tire yourself. Because, you know, they will … (Mother makes a gesture of swallowing).<\/i> <\/p>\n Yes, it’s tiring, that’s true.<\/i><\/p>\n They find it quite natural to absorb you completely. <\/p>\n Oh, its tiring.<\/i><\/p>\n It’s the same thing for me with people who come and see me…. I had to start putting up a fight because otherwise I used to say yes, yes, yes…. [[Mother has begun examining the list of visitors, instead of accepting everything and everyone. ]] They stay on till 1:00 P.M., and then … That can’t be. Page 265<\/font><\/p>\n Be careful. <\/p>\n I don’t know what I should do.<\/i><\/p>\n If it’s only while you’re outside, it’s all right. <\/p>\n At home, I’m rather fierce and I close my door.<\/i><\/p>\n That’s what I meant: don’t let them in. <\/p>\n Oh, a few still manage to slip in.<\/i><\/p>\n No, no, don’t let them in. Because then you can’t live anymore – you’re only food for them. <\/p>\n Yes, it’s tiring.<\/i><\/p>\n No, outside it’s all right, it doesn’t stop you from breathing the air, but inside, no. <\/p>\n You wanted to know about someone I see? What "someone" did<\/i><\/p>\n they I don’t remember. <\/p>\n Recently I saw someone I found very interesting. A young man.<\/i><\/p>\n His So then? <\/p>\n He quite strikes me as a young man with a past behind him, <\/i><\/p>\n who’s suddenly had rather surprising experiences. He seems to<\/i><\/p>\n understand from within, to go very fast.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Yes, that must be him. <\/p>\n I’ll give you one example: he was with Z and asked Z how the<\/i><\/p>\n syllable Then he repeated just that word, and he says that it suddenly<\/i><\/p>\n became absolutely awesome, as if there were hundreds of ampli<\/i><\/p>\n fiers and all of Matter everywhere said OM.<\/i><\/p>\n Page 266<\/font><\/p>\n Oh, he’s sensitive. Yes, that’s fine. <\/p>\n Yes, he is interesting…. So he asks me lots of questions suddenly he’s just discovering all this.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n That’s interesting. <\/p>\n Yes, its useful and interesting. …It will be good when you him. He first had experiences in Paris with drugs.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Oh! <\/p>\n Then, he told me, "But when I saw I could have experiences that, without drugs, I said to myself it was much he’s fine, not distorted.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n (silence)<\/i> (Mother holds out a flower)<\/i> What is it? <\/p>\n It’s "Power of Truth in the Subconscient"…. Not easy!<\/i><\/p>\n (Mother laughs)<\/i> The flowers are quite bold! (Mother takes another flower)<\/i> This is a "Psychological Perfection"…. It’s to find that [the power of truth in the subconscient]. We’re preparing a book about flowers. There will be color photos of flowers, their significance, and a comment by me! They make me write a comment on every flower…. So I’m having fun! It will be interesting. <\/p>\n But in the subconscient, some things have a power of recur<\/i><\/p>\n Oh!… <\/p>\n Not only that, you feel it’s a power IN ITSELF, quite independent<\/i><\/p>\n of anything, like a self-existent entity.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Yes. <\/p>\n So what can one do about it?<\/i><\/p>\n \n Page 267<\/font><\/p>\n It will only change when everything changes. Yes, it’s a daily battle. <\/p>\n Yes.<\/i><\/p>\n Page 268<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 18, 1970 (Mother begins with the translation of two letters of Sri Aurobindo for the next issue of the Bulletin.) 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