{"id":6832,"date":"2013-07-13T02:09:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6832"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:09:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:52","slug":"06-january-22-1969-vol-10-volume-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/10-volume-10\/06-january-22-1969-vol-10-volume-10","title":{"rendered":"-06_January 22_1969.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>January 22, 1969<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p><i>(Again regarding the descent of the superman consciousness.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>I wanted to tell you something, and it&#8217;s gone &#8230;.<br \/>\n<P>There&#8217;s been such a hurly-burly since this morning.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother remains absorbed)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I told you how I was surrounded [by a rampart] &#8230;. Oh, but this<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 32<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;consciousness is very interesting! It gives me lessons all the time,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s very interesting!<br \/>\n<P>He [[He = the mentor.  ]]  gives me lessons during the night to tell me the things that must change, and with symbolic sounds to make me clearly understand: he makes me LIVE certain situations to know what needs to be changed &#8211; what he does is first-rate!<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s going on in every detail. I can&#8217;t tell everything.<br \/>\n<P>And it doesn&#8217;t just concern itself with individuals: it also concerns itself with events all over the world. I see that clearly because it intervenes in the action of this or that nation, I see that mostly at night.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s very active.<br \/>\n<P>He&#8217;s educating me! Educating this body. That&#8217;s really very fine!<br \/>\n<P>(Mother laughs) We&#8217;ll see what&#8217;s going to happen it depends on the body&#8217;s plasticity, of course.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><P><i>Soon afterwards<\/i><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>There&#8217;s a problem I should put to you, an important problem: I<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;would very much like you to ask Sri Aurobindo what we should  <\/i>\n  <\/p>\n<p><i>do. It&#8217;s about The Human Cycle. The latest news is that the<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;publisher in Paris is quite ready to publish a first text by Sri<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;Aurobindo. But I&#8217;ve started having second thoughts. This  <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Human Cycle was rejected a first time, and by mistake they sent<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;its manuscript back here. I wondered if, after all, that wasn&#8217;t a<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;sign that the first volume of Sri Aurobindo to be brought out,<br \/>\n  rather than The Human Cycle, should not rather be The Syn<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>thesis of Yoga? The thought has come to me. It&#8217;s very important: what<br \/>\n  should we begin with? The Human Cycle had seemed<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;to me more exterior and generally accessible.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Do you have the translation of The Synthesis?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>I would have to revise it a bit, but it&#8217;s a matter of a<br \/>\n  month&#8217;s work.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;In that case, we could send them the first book,<br \/>\n  &quot;The Yoga of<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;Divine Works.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Yes, the Yoga of Works.<br \/>\n<P>I think it&#8217;s better, yes.<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 33<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;Yes, it&#8217;s newer, more central.<br \/>\n<P>You see, the other [The Human Cycle] discusses things that they&#8217;ve already discussed, and it takes a special disposition to understand that the viewpoint is new. While here, it&#8217;s wholly new.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>I think so, too.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes, begin with that.<br \/>\n<P>Personally, I remember, in my case, that&#8217;s what completely opened the door. That&#8217;s what made me &#8230; &quot;Ah!&quot; And I entered a new thing (with all the Western mental constructions, you understand).<br \/>\n<P>It will be interesting.<br \/>\n<P>Which publisher?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Arth&egrave;me Fayard. [[This publisher too will eventually shy away. ]] <\/i><\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><i>It will have to appear in several volumes.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes, it should be possible to publish it in three volumes.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>That&#8217;s it. If it could appear for his centenary, it would be fine.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Certainly! I do expect the first volume to come out this year. [[It will come out three years later. ]]  I still have to work on it a little, but in three weeks or a month I can send them the first volume.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><i>Good.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><i>If it could appear in August, it would be fine. Or at any rate, begin in August.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><P><i>Towards the end<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I wanted to tell you a little story (it&#8217;s not &quot;seriously&quot; interesting: it&#8217;s just amusing as a turn of mind). You know that the doctor went for an outing to a temple in the South, the temple of Tirupathi, [[Tirupathi or Sripathi: the master of wealth (or husband of Lakshmi &#8211; the goddess of wealth &#8211; that is to say, Vishnu). ]]  and it has given me an opportunity to make contact &#8230;. These are people who receive crores of rupees every year, they have a huge organization and feed thousands of people every day (from a physical<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 34<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;point of view, it takes up a lot of space), and according to what the doctor told me, it&#8217;s impeccably clean, wonderful. He himself was surprised. There are several hundred guest houses to lodge people, well, a big affair. So then, everything is based on a god they call &quot;Tirupathi,&quot;<br \/>\nI think, and this god gives you whatever you ask him &#8211; that&#8217;s a widespread<br \/>\nbelief. They have a statue of him (I had the photo in my hands today), with the<br \/>\ngod blindfolded. He has four hands opened like this &#8211; four hands that give, two<br \/>\non each side &#8211; and blindfolded. And it is said, &quot;You see the god and ask him;<br \/>\nand without looking at you, he gives you automatically.&quot;<br \/>\n<P>In other words, a god who doesn&#8217;t see faults, doesn&#8217;t see virtue, doesn&#8217;t see &#8230; anything: he receives requests, and gives.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s curious.<br \/>\n<P>These last few days, I&#8217;ve been able to make contact, because I had people there. Today I saw his photo and found it rather interesting (Mother feels the air with her fingers) &#8230;. No justice, no discernment, no &#8230; simply, you ask, and you get. So if you&#8217;ve asked something true, you get something true; if you&#8217;ve asked something false, you sink into falsehood. As an idea it&#8217;s VERY interesting.<br \/>\n<P>I think it&#8217;s the most important religious center in India: it&#8217;s on a hilltop, they have an army of trucks carrying people up every day Curious, isn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\n<P>And everybody comes, even government people, even scientists, everybody &#8230; It&#8217;s the need to ask for help from something more powerful than you are.<br \/>\n<P>And this faith: whatever you ask, anything, you get.<br \/>\n<P>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s always realized in the details, but there&#8217;s the principle.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Is there really a force?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>There is a force.<br \/>\n<P>Maybe it&#8217;s to demonstrate that with faith, trust, and a sort of inner certitude, you BRING THINGS ABOUT.<br \/>\n<P>And this idea: he doesn&#8217;t look at your merit or anything (Mother opens her hands) &#8211; you ask, and you get.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s pretty! <\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 35<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 22, 1969 (Again regarding the descent of the superman consciousness.) 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