Mother’s left eye is very bloodshot<\/i><\/p>\n
Does your eye hurt?<\/i><\/p>\n
My eye?<\/p>\n
It doesn’t hurt??<\/i><\/p>\n
I don’t know…. Is there something?<\/p>\n
Yes.<\/i><\/p>\n
Oh! I didn’t see…. It hurt this morning, and then … Strange, no one told me anything.
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All right, that’s all I needed! I won’t be able to do anything at all. It hurt, but I didn’t give it thought.
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Is it very red?<\/p>\n
Not as much as sometimes…. But here, when you look down, it’s very red. When you lower your eyelid, there is an entire bloodshot area, up to the iris.<\/i><\/p>\n
So it has started again…. All right.
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It’s such an avalanche, you know….
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If one could do the work quietly, without having to rush … it wouldn’t be a problem, it would be nothing. But one has to do in ten minutes a work that should normally take an hour, that’s the bad thing.
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This week, you know, I should have remained quiet (meaning that I would have liked to), because the result of that intensity of aspiration [in the body] is to give me a crystal clear and almost constant perception of the extent to which the material substance is made of Falsehood and Ignorance – as soon as the consciousness is clear, at rest, peaceful, in a luminous vision, falsities seem to come up from all sides. It isn’t an active perception, in the sense that I don’t “try” to know: these are things that PRESENT themselves
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Page 63<\/font><\/p>\n to the consciousness. And then you realize what it takes to clarify all that, to transform all that – what tremendous power of Truth-Force!… And you notice that the intensity of the aspiration – which hastens the transformation and brings the realization nearer – may well … (Mother touches her eye) <\/i>yes, here’s the result. And I notice that, all around, those nearer to the center of descent are very shaken up – very. I see very few bodies around me capable of bearing it. But then, if that’s how it is, necessarily the descent is so filtered and diminished that … how much will get through? This morning, it hurt a little, but I said, “It’s nothing, it MUST NOT be” – that it has come bothers me. It’s a sign that the descent is too strong. So if we have to wait another four years – 1968 … And what’s going to come? … It’ll be like a perfectly innocuous little rain! Which probably will not even be perceptible for the ordinary consciousness. Maybe the work would go faster if instead of burdening me with such superficial chores – sending blessings, <\/i>signing photographs …<\/p>\n Yes! Oh yes, indeed!…<\/i><\/p>\n And then receiving people. Receiving one after another, one after another, dozens of them…. Each one says, thinks, feels, “But I take just one minute!” But when you add up all the minutes, then … (silence)<\/i> But it also shows one thing: if I let too wide a gap grow between me and the people around, it isn’t good either, in the sense that if others aren’t able to bear what I might bring down, it will be another kind of catastrophe. One must have patience. Patience one has. Much patience. *** A little later<\/i> I have a feeling that people didn’t understand a thing in the last Bulletin <\/i>[[Mother is referring to a passage from the Agenda <\/i>(September 7. 1963), which has just been published in the Bulletin <\/i>under the title “Dialogue with a Materialist.” ]] – they <\/i>didn’t dare to say anything, but they didn’t under- stand a thing! Even those who, consciously, are supposed to understand: Nolini, Amrita, Pavitra, Andr\u00e9 … not to mention all the rest who are not as developed intellectually – understand nothing. I have a feeling, a vague feeling that it will give someone, somewhere, very far away physically, a coup de grace, because I had that feeling while having the experience – what I told you and what you noted down was only the memory of the experience, but while I was having the experience and responding (gesture of mental communication), <\/i>I had the feeling that, somewhere, someone was touched in a radical way, and that it was important for the intellectual atmosphere of the earth. Who is it? I don’t know. That’s why I let that article be published, because otherwise … You see, when I read something or when, for instance, Nolini reads me a translation, I read with the others’ consciousness – how flat it had become! Flat, flat: all the Power was gone.<\/p>\n I made some discoveries of this kind on the way people understand and read – very “cultured” people….<\/i><\/p>\n They don’t know how to read, they read with their brains.<\/p>\n They read with a grammar book at the back of their minds!<\/i><\/p>\n Those are the scholars, that’s awful, but I’ve never tried to convince a scholar!<\/p>\n They don’t “hear” what’s behind, they don’t try to capture that sort of music – they just see sentences.<\/i><\/p>\n My article gives them a sense of something both very boring and very childish – both at once, so that crowns it all! Because the external form is very simple, of course, without literary pretensions; so it isn’t exciting for the brain, not in the least (on the contrary I try to calm it down as much as possible!).<\/p>\n No, those who understand you best are the simple-hearted.<\/i><\/p>\n Yes, they are touched.<\/p>\n And their understanding is infinitely greater than that of “cultured” people – they understand better, they are more intelligent. <\/i><\/p>\n Page 65<\/font><\/p>\n More receptive. Yes, they feel. They feel correctly, they mentalize less. (Mother goes into contemplation)<\/i> *** Just before Satprem leaves<\/i> So, if by our next meeting you feel something or see something or think of something, or have a “dream,” you will tell me…. I don’t have much hope left … because these last few days there has been a great intensity, rather hard to bear – tremendous – and this morning when I got up, the intensity had lifted a little. The night was good (I perceive the general subconscient and the state of receptivity, the conditions – it wasn’t bad, it was rather satisfying), but I noticed that the Pressure, the intensity of the Pressure, had lessened. It was only during the work here [with the secretaries], that hour of work (labor, not work), I felt something here (gesture to the forehead and temple) <\/i>that was a bit tired, like a fatigue coming from outside…. Anyway … Well, now we have to hold on. Page 66<\/font> <\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 26, 1964 Mother’s left eye is very bloodshot Does your eye hurt? My eye? It doesn’t hurt?? I don’t know…. Is there something? 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