{"id":6726,"date":"2013-07-13T02:09:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:09:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:18","slug":"018-february-27-1971-vol-12-volume-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/12-volume-12\/018-february-27-1971-vol-12-volume-12","title":{"rendered":"-018_February 27_1971.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 27, 1971<\/H3>
\n

What news do you have?…
\n

(long silence)<\/i>
\n

The problem is food. The doctors have put restrictions on everything I eat most easily, so it’s….
\n

Basically, I realize more and more that we live in total


\nPage 51<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

 ignorance. We really don’t know either what should be done or how to do
\nit.<\/p>\n

But surely that New Consciousness should make one do what<\/i><\/p>\n

 is
\n necessary.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I think we don’t know how to listen.<\/p>\n

We don’t know how to listen….<\/i><\/p>\n

(silence)<\/i><\/p>\n

It’s very difficult to disentangle the old impulse from the….<\/i><\/p>\n

Yes, exactly.<\/p>\n

It’s very difficult.<\/i><\/p>\n

Very difficult.
\n

You see, our practical knowledge is based on an experience that has become worthless.
\n

(long contemplation<\/i>

 with her eyes
\nopen)<\/i><\/p>\n

But it’s better to make a mistake listening or trying to listen to the New Consciousness than to make a mistake listening to the doctors, isn’t it?<\/i><\/p>\n

(Mother smiles) <\/i>But the Consciousness doesn’t contradict anything.<\/p>\n

You mean it’s neutral?<\/i><\/p>\n

The Consciousness doesn’t argue…. I don’t know how to explain it….
\n

(long silence)<\/i>
\n

If there were a strong and clear indication, I would certainly listen to it, but that’s not the case…. For instance, the cook is used to doing things a certain way and does them that way; the doctor says to give me such and such a thing and they listen to him…. But when I say, “I would like to have such and such a thing,” they give it to me grudgingly, <\/i>you know, almost as if it were a concession to gluttony! So….
\n

Page 52<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

I live in such conventionality that it’s very difficult.
\n

And always the idea that I am o-l-d, I am getting o-l-d, and so for them my consciousness must be half dead. They don’t have faith, what can you do!<\/p>\n

Not all.<\/i><\/p>\n

Only don’t go repeating this. There’s no need to say anything because they all do … each one does the best he can and really tries hard — they really try hard.
\n

But I would need someone with vision who could tell me: Now you do this.
\n

So I have taken the attitude of saying: let it be. I make myself as passive as possible — passive to the Divine Will — and I pray for it to guide me. That’s the only way.
\n

Do you hear me?<\/p>\n

Yes, of course, Mother!<\/i><\/p>\n

Page 53<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n


\n

March<\/i><\/H3><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 27, 1971 What news do you have?… (long silence) The problem is food. The doctors have put restrictions on everything I eat most easily,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-volume-12","wpcat-149-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726","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=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}