{"id":6729,"date":"2013-07-13T02:09:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6729"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:09:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:19","slug":"016-february-24-1971-vol-12-volume-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/12-volume-12\/016-february-24-1971-vol-12-volume-12","title":{"rendered":"-016_February 24_1971.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>February 24, 1971<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Satprem gives a white rose to Mother.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Oh, how beautiful!<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 49<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>How did the 21st go?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>I should ask <i>you! (laughter) <\/i>What about you, what do you say, how was the 21st?<\/p>\n<p><i>Well, personally I always feel the power so tremendously, you know.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Oh, indeed, tremendous!&#8230; It &#8230; it comes like this <i>(massive gesture).<\/i><br \/>\n<P>It seems generally that people were very happy, so that&#8217;s all that&#8217;s needed.<br \/>\n<P>What do you <i>(to Sujata) <\/i>say?<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Sujata looks at Mother with a lost look,<br \/>Mother caresses her cheek and laughs)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>You see, it&#8217;s like following the story of someone else with an interest which &#8230; not even with great interest, not even curiosity&#8230;. I can&#8217;t say there&#8217;s a sense of duty, I don&#8217;t know what it is &#8212; it&#8217;s a need and that&#8217;s all.<br \/>\n<P>The body has once and for all taken the attitude of not thinking of itself because &#8230; it would be deeply disgusted.<br \/>\n<P>But I must say there are days when I hear very well, days when I see very clearly, days when I hear nothing, days when I see nothing. So &#8230; it&#8217;s like this <i>(gesture of fluctuation).<\/i><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s decentralized (I don&#8217;t know how to say it), completely decentralized. So, if I look &#8212; if I LOOKED &#8212; with the old consciousness, it would be rather &#8230; rather unpleasant, you can say, but the old consciousness: gone. It&#8217;s something &#8230; something that isn&#8217;t an individual consciousness, but it is not just a collective consciousness either: there&#8217;s &#8220;something&#8221; up there &#8212; THAT, up there &#8212; which sees, knows, decides&#8230;. That, up there, is quite all right, it hasn&#8217;t moved &#8212; it hasn&#8217;t moved. But this&#8230;. <i>(Mother points to her body)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>There was some apprehension for the 21st about going out on the balcony,<P>[[Mother walked out on the balcony without help, after having practiced every day. ]] the feeling that it would be very difficult &#8212; it wasn&#8217;t very difficult, it was neutral, neither easy nor difficult&#8230;. The values are not the same.<br \/>\n<P>That&#8217;s all.<br \/>\n<P>Oh, I would rather hear your chapter.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 50<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>Here is my pension, Mother.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>You don&#8217;t need anything?<\/p>\n<p><i>No, no, Mother! You give me everything I need.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Really?&#8230;<br \/>\n<P><i>(To Sujata:) <\/i>Tell me if it&#8217;s true that he doesn&#8217;t need anything.<\/p>\n<p><i>No, Mother, he doesn&#8217;t need anything!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(Reading of the end of Supermanhood,<br \/>Chapter 16, &#8220;The Season of Truth.&#8221;)<\/i><P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 51<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 24, 1971 (Satprem gives a white rose to Mother.) Oh, how beautiful! Page 49 How did the 21st go? I should ask you! 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