{"id":6827,"date":"2013-07-13T02:09:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:09:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:50","slug":"71-october-8-1969-vol-10-volume-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/10-volume-10\/71-october-8-1969-vol-10-volume-10","title":{"rendered":"-71_October 8_1969.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>October 8, 1969<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p><i>(Regarding a letter from the healer in which he<br \/>\n  asks Mother if <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>he could contact the Indian government and obtain its collabo<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>ration to spread the &quot;Spiritual message&quot; as he understands it.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>I got a letter from A.R. You should read it &#8230;.<br \/>\n<P>I am absolutely convinced that he can&#8217;t do ANYTHING with the government, absolutely nothing. But just to please him, I arranged a meeting with N.S. [[N.S. is a disciple of Mother&#8217;s who accompanied Indira Gandhi during her visit of October 6, and who holds a minister&#8217;s post. ]]  and she accepted, but she had something else to do and couldn&#8217;t be there. Did he tell you anything?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>He didn&#8217;t mention it to me, but he did tell me that he would like to reach all the least mentalized classes. He says, &quot;Here, many more people than we think are ready, and they aren&#8217;t hampered by the mind. A lot of work could be done.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes, of course.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;But,&quot; he says, &quot;I don&#8217;t know the language, so what can I do?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>He can&#8217;t do anything. And mentally, they have everything one could have! Even then, there are swarms of preachers. As for me, I am convinced that mentally he can&#8217;t do anything.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 362<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><i>It would be more like a work of service, healing everywhere,<br \/>\n  that<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;sort of thing.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Yes, that&#8217;s it. But he doesn&#8217;t realize what he&#8217;s saying! What he writes me people here would find childish.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>The only difference is that it would be a living testimony.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes, that&#8217;s his strength. But I find him much more useful and powerful when he says nothing than when he talks &#8211; when he talks, of course, you see &#8230; Yes, it&#8217;s very useful in Europe, but not here. Here, people are saturated with preachers.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s an invisible and silent action that&#8217;s needed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes &#8230; If he cured people, then he could have influence. But I&#8217;ve been wondering if he shouldn&#8217;t rather withdraw to cure himself [of the hernia].<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Then you really should tell him, because I know this man,<br \/>\n  he&#8217;ll<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;never decide that himself &#8211; he doesn&#8217;t feel it possible<br \/>\n  to take care<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;of himself and stop serving others. If you tell him &#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>I could write him a line.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"center\">***<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P><i>Then Mother takes up<\/i><P><i>&nbsp;various notes:<\/i><br \/>\n<P>This is the message for the New Year [1970].<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The world is Preparing for a big change.<br \/>Will you help?&quot;<\/p>\n<p><P>And this &#8230; the other day, I gave Indira four messages.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Was she receptive?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes. I didn&#8217;t speak; she stayed here for fifteen minutes without saving a word. Then N.S. came in and she asked me a few questions. But these (Mother points to the notes) I had received before: one after another I received them.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 363<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;Let India work for the future and take the lead.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;Thus<br \/>\n  she will recover her true place in the world.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;Since long it was the habit to govern through<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;division<br \/>\n  and opposition.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;The time has come to govern through union,<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;mutual<br \/>\n  understanding and collaboration.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;To choose a collaborator, the value of the man is<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;more<br \/>\n  important than the party to which he belongs.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>It seems it was just what she needed to hear! But now it&#8217;s always like that; when it comes in that way, I am sure that &#8230; I gave it to her without saying anything; I put it in an envelope. And N.S. said, &quot;It&#8217;s just what she needed to hear.&quot;<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The greatness of a country does not depend on the victory of a party, but on the union of all the parties.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother points to another note)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>The Pondicherry radio asked me for a message to be put up in their office, so I gave them this &#8211; and they put it up!<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Teach your listeners to love the Truth.<br \/>This is a work worth doing.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><P>(Mother laughs) They put it up, that&#8217;s what amuses me!<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother starts writing<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;her note to<br \/>\nthe healer)<\/i><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The time seems opportune for you to make your<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;last conquest over illness, and to do that, you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;need some rest in a solitary place. Everything <\/p>\n<p>can easily be arranged. Satprem will explain.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><i>His contact is good, you know.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes. S.&#8217;s child is no longer in pain at all, he&#8217;s quite fine.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>His reflection about the Ashram is that there is here a<br \/>\n  privileged<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;substance, with a knowledge he has never seen<br \/>\n  anywhere else, <\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 364<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>&nbsp;but which lacks intensity and energy, and also practice.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Practice, yes.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>They take life as it comes.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes, because they have an easy life.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>That shocks him: not to do the work with all that&#8217;s here!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>That&#8217;s because their life is too easy If they&#8217;re asked to make the slightest effort, they rebel.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"center\">***<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p><i>(Soon afterwards, regarding Sujata&#8217;s question<br \/>\n  about love<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;in the conversation of October 1st.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Last night I had a very interesting experience &#8230;. I had a long vision &#8211; an activity &#8211; which I didn&#8217;t remember because I didn&#8217;t pay sufficient attention, but at the end, there was someone (that was certainly symbolic), a tall black man. It probably wasn&#8217;t a human being, it must have been the symbol of something in my life, or something in the life of the people I&#8217;ve lived with, or even the symbol of something I&#8217;ve been fighting against in life. And then, after a lot, quite a lot of goings-on, I had withdrawn into a small place with a few people (those I always see, who are always there), I was there with them when that black man, or that black BEiNG &#8230; There was no roof; it was a small place with walls, but without a roof (it was in the subtle physical). So that black being came, ripped off a huge piece of wall (the wall was built with big bricks), a huge piece of wall, and from above (he was above me), he threw it at my stomach &#8230;. I felt it. And at the same time, I heard a thunderclap was there a thunderclap last night? &#8230; Just one. Early in the night?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>I don&#8217;t think so.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\">You don&#8217;t know &#8230; I saw a flash of lightning outside before<br \/>\ngoing to sleep, so I thought maybe &#8230; But I am not sure; the thunderclap too<br \/>\nmay have taken place in the subtle physical &#8230;. It fell like this (Mother<br \/>\nstrikes her stomach). I felt it fall (Mother smiles), I smiled and said, &quot;He<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t!&quot; (Mother laughs) And it didn&#8217;t hurt me in the<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;Page<br \/>\n365<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;least! Then he left. And it was as if to teach me &#8230; I looked,<br \/>\nwondering, &quot;How could I receive it?&quot; Then the answer was so clear: it was to<br \/>\nteach my body that it can be attacked but won&#8217;t feel anything.<br \/>\n<P>I felt it, but it didn&#8217;t hurl! And there&#8217;s no trace. And there&#8217;s nothing &#8211; there was enough to crush you! (Mother laughs) And there was nothing. The body was tranquil, tranquil, tranquil &#8230;. It woke me up, and I wondered if I&#8217;d been hurt, but there was nothing. And where it fell, I saw it, I felt the shock &#8211; I felt it, that&#8217;s what woke me up: a shock and a sort of weight, and a gap in the wall as big as a door. So then, the body&#8217;s reaction, but instantaneous (that is, without reflecting or anything), instantaneous, was &#8230; &quot;Oh, Lord,&quot; like this (Mother opens her arms upward), smiling. Not at all frightened or &#8230; Then I took a good look and wondered, &quot;Am I hurt anywhere?&quot; There was nothing &#8230;. Because I kept the two together: the state of vision and the physical state at the same time; in the state of vision I wanted to know whether I&#8217;d been hurt (it hadn&#8217;t done anything), and in both states the reaction was the same, like this (same gesture, arms open), with a smile. So it shows that &#8230; the thing is really done.<br \/>\n<P>Later this morning, when I was fully awake, I wondered, &quot;How could I get that? How could that being do it?&quot; (Because it did take place, I received it! [Mother laughs] He wasn&#8217;t stopped from doing it.) Then the answer was very clear: it was for your body to learn that it&#8217;s really and effectively protected, even if something takes place.<br \/>\n<P>It was interesting.<br \/>\n<P>That black being, I see him very often &#8230;. It must be the symbol of the force opposed in the world (not only on the earth but in the world) to the Action I have been given to do. He is associated with my body. A tall, tall black being, all black &#8230;.<br \/>\n<P>There was a long story This morning I still remembered; now I don&#8217;t.<br \/>\n<P>But it was interesting. It&#8217;s the first time such a thing has happened to me; it&#8217;s the first time someone has managed to harm me in the subtle physical &#8211; he didn&#8217;t harm me, but he pulled off his attack.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>But it&#8217;s odd &#8230;. For instance, when the body received the thing (there was a shock), not for a minute did it have &#8230; (fear, there&#8217;s no question of it), but not for a minute did it say, &quot;Ah, what a disgusting thing to do!&quot; &#8211; nothing, nothing, the SAME smile, everywhere &#8230;.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 366<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>That&#8217;s the point it has reached, you understand: a sort of awareness that whatever happens happens by the divine Will, that it&#8217;s ALWAYS for the best, and it&#8217;s only human stupidity, lack of understanding, shortsightedness that make us say, &quot;Oh, what a misfortune! Oh &#8230;&quot;<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s all MARVELOUSLY arranged.<br \/>\n<P>When the body is aware of that, then it&#8217;s fine &#8230;. It&#8217;s far from having reached perfection &#8211; to begin with, it&#8217;s &#8230; I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s being transformed, that&#8217;s not visible, but at any rate its functioning depends on the higher Consciousness, it no longer depends on the ordinary mechanism (that&#8217;s taking place gradually). Well, even in the middle of that, there&#8217;s a sort of smiling trust as a result of which, even when there&#8217;s some pain, some discomfort, it doesn&#8217;t matter &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t matter. There is the sense of this Divine Presence, always, everywhere, every moment. That doesn&#8217;t go away.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Oh, you know, we think we&#8217;re very intelligent, but &#8230; (laughing) how poorly we understand! It&#8217;s like a little piece cut out of the Whole, so we no longer see anything.<br \/>\n<P>Now it&#8217;s beginning to be better.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Has it made your nights more conscious?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>A little, now and then.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>I often see you.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 367<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 8, 1969 (Regarding a letter from the healer in which he asks Mother if he could contact the Indian government and obtain its collabo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-volume-10","wpcat-150-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","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=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}