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VOLUME 12 - 1971

January 11 
p. 18

Summary: 
When neither physical vision or hearing are there you perceive the thing directly, giving you true knowledge. This is how the Supermind will function.

Category: Supramental Existence

Keywords: Seeing, hearing, the senses, direct perception

Your Comments:

(MSS) We know the magician sees with eyes shut. A magician drove on the roads of Madras with his eyes taped.

In concentration, first the senses turn off. Next, mind wakes up by itself and functions without the help of the senses (see the Chapter on concentration in 'Synthesis of Yoga'). Then mind sees, hears, etc. without the help of eyes or ears. This is the human mind. Above is a range of higher mind, illumined mind, intuitive mind, Overmind and then Supermind. Each mind is capable of functioning through the lower faculty as mind does through the senses of the vital or BY ITSELF.

When Supermind functions by itself, which is the case of Mother, she sees as described here.

(Mageswari) From August 1st onwards, whenever I look at the picture of Sri Aurobindo, His dhoti's whiteness and brightness has been slowly  increasing and during last two days i.e. 13 & 14th, His dhoti was slightly moving. All this I saw with my open eyes. I think that this direct perception is coming to me because of Sri Aurobindo's birthday. I know very well I have never even imagined anything like that.

January 30 
p. 38

Summary: 
Mother has no attraction to, interest in eating; another evolutionary physical movement of transformation on the way to the Supramental being, which has no need for digesting.

Category: Supramental Existence

Keywords: Eating, digesting, food

Comments:

(MSS) We know of people who are terribly interested in eating or physical work and those who aren't the least interested in eating. The former are more physical, the latter are more mental. Here, in Mother's case, it is taken to higher levels.

February 3 
p. 45

Summary: 
"A life consecrated to the Divine is the only one worth living." (Mother)

Category: Yoga

Keywords: consecration, purpose of life, Yoga

Comments:

(MSS) A neo-literate would not put a book down and would enjoy reading aloud like a child with a new toy. In 'As You Like It', Rosalind says that as she is a woman, she needs to talk as she thinks. That is the power of nascent energy. It is true at all levels. Scientists cannot wean themselves from the experiment, astronomers from the telescope, or Sherlock Holmes from his investigation. When the physical learns to do something, it CANNOT desist from doing it, says Mother. Of all the human explorations, consecration is cutting anew path in spiritual life. Once man sees it, he will come down, nor stop doing it. For that, one needs to learn consecration.

February 27
p. 52

Summary: 
"Our practical knowledge is based on an experience that has become worthless." (Mother)

Category: Current Human Existence

Keywords: knowledge, experience

Comments:

(MSS:) Practical knowledge is the physical capacity to survive. In Evolution survival is taken for granted and built on. Relying on survival is dangerous. As you evolve, the base of survival needs to be reconstituted with new consciousness.

E.g. our academic training is useless for reading The Life Divine. Training in prose can interfere with appreciation of music. Boisterous enjoyment will not contribute to enjoying cultured life. 

The physical can repeat, only repeat. Does anyone want things to be repeated? Not only in Life Divine, is it possible in innovation, creativity, or in new computer programmes?

• The physical's birthright is repetition.
• Evolution's prerogative is NOT to repeat once.
• But the luminous Imperative REPEATS to conquer the dark imperative. (pg. 962, The Life Divine)
• The entire past has to be forgotten as an EXPERIENCE retaining its spiritual ESSENCE in the psychic centre.

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p. 53

Summary: 
"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" (Mother)

Category: Mother's Yoga

Keywords: passive, Divine Will,

(MSS) Passivity is NOT dullness. It is a state higher than dynamic activity which includes the energy of that dynamism. Compare it to Silent Will which is more effective than the spoken word.

Let us take one of the four levels of Spirit, mind, vital and physical and divide it into consciousness and substance.  These two subdivide into surface and depth.  Our social life and the mentality that governs it is governed by information, knowledge, energy, experience, culture, accomplishment and at least ten other things. Now we know this knowledge that is acquired by reading, which is one of the ten things on the surface of the consciousness, ranges from total illiterate ignorance to the final expertise of university scholarship. Can we not divide it further into 100 surface levels? So, safely between where we are and the height of spirit, there are a few hundred levels of consciousness.

  Passivity and dynamism at each of these levels exists in 3 levels as follows;

Dullness -- incapable of activity
Dynamism
Passivity -- which includes the energy of dynamism

March 3 
p. 58

Summary: 
Mother discusses the condition of the people who come to her, especially their receptivity. Some come with aspiration, some with curiosity, some out of obligation, and those who are thirsty for the light, which there are few of, though there are a few children.  She notes that those with the flame of aspiration are few.

Category: Devotees

Keywords: receptivity, aspiration

Your Comments:

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March 3 (con't) 
p. 60

Summary: 
At night she did not sleep, but went into a deep repose. 

Category: Mother's Yoga

Keywords: sleep

Comments:

(RP) Again perhaps an example of the Supramental nature?

(MSS) In sleep, people touch Satchitananda and replenish their energy. If one is unconscious, he touches the Inconscient and wakes up exhausted. Sleep is the period when the surface being is at rest and subliminal at work. In the parts we are asleep, Mother is awake at night. To understand this passage, we need to understand SLEEP. The analogy of 24 hours of service by the railways, airlines, fire department, etc. is good, but is inadequate. Mother is conscious in the parts we are unconscious. The conscious part rests, does not sleep. The unconscious parts need sleep.

March 17 
p. 72

Summary: 
As a result of the creation there is Division (the Involution), which has to become Unity (Evolution)

Category: Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: involution, evolution, division, unity, creation

Comments:

March 31 
p. 77

Summary: 
In the conflict that erupts between India and Pakistan over the splitting of (eastern) Pakistan into Bangladesh, Mother puts the pressure of the Force on the problem.

Category: World Events, Utilizing the Force

Keywords: the Force, political, nation, India

Your Comments:

April 1 
p. 81

Summary: 
In the Hour of God the possibilities of progress are exceptional; so take advantage of it.

Category: Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: Hours of God, possibilities, opportunities

Comments:

April 3
p. 83

Summary: 
"Lying is always the sign of a lack of courage. A refusal to face the situation as is." (Mother)

Category: Human Limitation

Keywords: lying, truth, honesty

Your Comments:

April 14 
p. 93

Summary: 
Mother's intense aspiration for the reign of the Divine to come.

Category: Mother's Yoga, Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: Divine (reign of), aspiration

Comments:

May 5 
p. 119

Summary: 
Cling only to the Divine (which is everywhere), nothing else.

Category: Mother's Yoga

Keywords: the Divine

Comments:

May 22 
p. 142

Summary: 
Mother tries to be a limpid transmitter of the Force.

Category: Mother's Yoga, The Force

Keywords: the Force, transmitter

Comments:

June 2 
p. 157

Summary: 
In each person there is a part of the personality that needs to be transformed (that the soul seeks to be changed in the life, or if not done in one's life, it waits for the next life).

Category: Human Limitation

Keywords: life, rebirth, personality, transformation

Comments:

June 5 
p. 158

Summary: 
Mother has gotten in the habit of calling the Divine all of the time. Also, when Mother focuses on a thing (e.g. eating) or perceived the problems around her (e.g. from people) as "difficulties," she suffered. When there are problems, and she remains silent and connected to the Divine, all goes well.

Category: Mother's Yoga

Keywords: The Divine, focus

Comments: 

(RP) Her body (eating) and her nerves (relation to others) needs to be ignored, and when so everything works right It gives the Supramental force its opportunity to function. The Supramental Force is out front beyond the body; the body is not the best vehicle for the force; it too must evolve to allow the best flowing of the Force 

June 9 
p. 162

Summary: 
The time of the ego, of a separate personality is over. It is false. Consciousness, action, and individuality is replaced by the Divine.

Category: Human Limitation, Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: ego, individuality, Divine, false, falsehood

Comments:

June 16
p. 167

Summary: 
Everything (in life) is useful and necessary. We must be in the movement of the eternal Unfolding and Becoming, accepting all.

Category: Mother's Yoga

Keywords: the Becoming, the Unfolding, usefulness, truth, falsehood

Comments:

June 26 
p. 176

Summary: 
Its better to be a limpid transmitter of the force, and be patient than being anxious to know what is going to happen.

Category: Mother's Yoga, The Force

Keywords: the Force, transmitter, limpid, transparent

Comments:

July 3 
p. 183

Summary: 
There is no real good or bad, all is what is should be.

Category: Way Life Works

Keywords: good, bad, oneness

Comments:

July 10 
p. 187

Summary: 
Need for the physical to change; illness (e.g. cancer) to end.

Category: Mother's Physical Transformation

Keywords: physical, physical transformation, body, attitude, suffering, harmony

Comments:

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July 10
p. 189

Summary: 
Consecration, opening to the Force at greater and greater levels; i.e. with greater intensity is the key to the transformation.

Category: Mother's Yoga, Yoga

Keywords: the Force, consecration, intensity, transformation

Comments:

July 21 
p. 200

Summary: 
The Divine Action is so simple, but our complexity, mentality ruins it, diminishes it, distorts it.

Category: Human Limitation

Keywords: the Divine Action, distortion, mind

Comments:

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July 21 
202

Summary: 
The people who have the aspiration, the need to know, are the key in the evolution.

Category: Devotees, Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: aspiration, people, evolution

Comments:

July 24 
p. 203

Summary: 
Constant invoking the Divine by Mother no matter what she is doing.

Category: Mother's Yoga

Keywords: the Divine, invocation, constant

Comments:

August 7 
p. 212

Summary: 
Mother notices a web and sub-webs of connection between things. If you improve something you are involved with, it improves related things or connected things on this sub-web. The web that encircles the earth.

Category: Way Life Works

Keywords: web, the earth, forces, invisible, circumstances, Life Response

Comments: 

(RP) This is basically the foundation on which Life Response is based.

August 14-18 
p. 216-219

Summary: 
As Mother's transformation increases there is a greater need to depend exclusively on the Divine Consciousness. Otherwise there is suffering, danger for her. Mother is more and more feeling she does not want to speak, to know anything relate to herself. She just wants to connect and be used by the Divine. Mother experiences and needs to experience that only the Divine exists; i.e. all is the Divine. In that state she can exist as she goes through this difficult physical transformation. (For her) no choices, no preferences, leave the choices entirely to the Divine.

Category: Mother's Yoga

Keywords: physical transformation, the Divine

Comments: 

August 28 
p. 225

Summary: 
The need to think is a transitional phenomenon in human evolution.

Category: Human Limitation, Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: Thinking, mind, transitory, evolution

Comments:

August 28 
p. 227

Summary: 
The purpose of human life is to be the Divine. To have the joy, the delight that we are the Divine.

Category: Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: purpose, evolution, creation, delight

Comments:

(RP) This harkens to Sri Aurobindo's theory of creation that the universe was created from out of the One for the purpose of delight, which is fulfilled in our own evolution and discovery of the Divine.

September 4 
p. 232-236

Summary: 
Mother is going through her physical transformation with extreme consecration and dependence on the Divine. .. The ordinary life is so different than this new life, that it is like death compared to the other ... Mother is trying to be the physical being capable of bearing the Power that wants to manifest. She is learning to adjust to the overwhelming Power that is trying to manifest. .. She does not know if her body has enough plasticity to do it...It may be for another life ... She also says that the physical appearance will change last... Mother said Sri Aurobindo told her that he would return in the Supramental body... She says that before a body can be totally transformed an intermediary stage may take place for humanity which will be the "duration of life at will."... There is a sort of promise of an overwhelming Power, and at the same time signs of disorganization, where there is a need to pay attention, stay concentrated in order to do things like eating.

Category: Mother's Physical Transformation

Keywords: physical transformation, yoga, body, Power

Comments:

October 2 
p. 255

Summary: 
Mother directs the Force like a ray; to cure someone, even to get a thief arrested. 

Category: Mother's Yoga, The Force

Keywords: Force, focus, cure

Your Comments:

October 16 
p. 266

Summary: 
Pain can be negated, even turned into pleasure, a blissful state, depending on how it is turned to the Divine, a certain sincerity and intensity of one's connection to the Divine.

Category: Human Limitation, Mother's Physical Transformation

Keywords: body, pain, pleasure, the Divine, sincerity, intensity

Comments:

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p. 267

Summary: 
Even the cells themselves need to feel reliance on the Divine.

Category: Mother's Physical Transformation

Keywords: cells, reliance, the Divine

Comments:

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p. 268

Summary: 
Seeing that all is Divine helps you understand that there is no real conflict or opposition in life when they seem to appear. Then all difficulties fall away.

Category: Yoga, Way Life Works

Keywords: attitude, conflict, duality, divine, circumstances

Comments:

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p. 269

Summary: 
Physical disorders disappear when (1) one opens the cells to the Divine, (2) when the cells are convinced that they are Divine, and (3) when the body ego disappears, and is replaced with That.

Category: Mother's Physical Transformation

Keywords: body, disorders, the Divine, body ego

Comments:

October 30 
p. 286

Summary: 
Our ultimate purpose is to have both the individual and universal consciousness (i.e. to see the world as the Divine sees it, even though we are an individual); and yet that merges into a new consciousness which we haven't yet found ... Mother also relates this to the issue of the latent power of creation in the individual consciousness 

Category: Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: individual consciousness, divine consciousness, creation, power of creation

Comments:

November 20 
p. 303

Summary: 
Incomprehensible illnesses are appearing as we transition between the old manifestation and the new which the body cannot yet process. 

Category: Human Limitation, Mother's Physical Transformation, Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: matter, physical body, diseases

Comments:

November 27 
p. 308

Summary: 
Mother experiences the world as the Divine sees it. To experience the world as the Divine sees it is our ultimate purpose. 

Category: Yoga, Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: the Divine, the individual

Comments:

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p. 311

Summary: 
Sri Aurobindo came to tell the world of the marvel, the beauty to come, of what can be realized and how we can collaborate in that realization. 

Category: Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: Sri Aurobindo, message, future, realization

Comments:

December 1
p. 316

Summary: 
The notion of time and space, subjectivity and objectivity, whether things are concrete or not, are of the old species. Mother says that these are all breaking down as she is becoming the new species. These aspects were necessary as part of the mental perception, which is no longer needed. 

Category: The Way Life Works, Mother's Yoga, Transformation of Life on Earth, Supramental Existence

Keywords: time, space, subjectivity, objectivity, concrete, change, mind

Comments:

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p. 316

Summary: 
There is something forming in Mother that is replacing mind. 

Category: Mother's Yoga

Keywords: mind, replace

Comments:

December 4
p. 321

Summary: 
Everything, even mistakes, accidents, falsehoods are the result of the Divine Wisdom. 

Category: Way Life Works

Keywords: Divine Wisdom, accidents, mistakes, falsehood, destiny, truth

Comments:

December 8
p. 323

Summary: 
For transformation what is needed is aspiration, and the end of ego. To those who are sincere in this regard will receive the divine help. 

Category: Yoga, Devotes

Keywords: aspiration, ego, Divine Help

Comments:

December 13
p. 331

Summary: 
The psychic being vs. the mind. 

Category: Human Makeup

Keywords: aspiration, ego, Divine Help

Comments:

December 15
p. 332

Summary: 
Difficulties compel change. 

Category: Human Limitation, The Way Life Works

Keywords: aspiration, ego, Divine Help

Comments:

December 18
p. 337

Summary: 
The physical mind needs to receive and manifest the Supermind in order for Supermind to manifest on earth. 

Category: Mother's Physical Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: Supermind, physical mind, bodily mind

Comments:

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p. 337

Summary: 
Mother hears and sees with an inner sense.  People who think clearly or express the inner life are perceived better by her. 

Category: Mother's Yoga

Keywords: hearing, seeing, inner sense, clarity

Comments:

December 22
p. 344

Summary: 
Overcoming the defeatist subconscient which believes in the inevitability of death by bringing in faith and the certainty of the transformation.

Category: Human Limitation, Mother's Yoga, Mother's Physical Transformation, Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: subconscient, defeatist, death, faith, certainty, transformation

Comments:

December 25
p. 345-346

Summary: 
Mother explains three types of attitudes towards life. 

Category: Yoga

Keywords: attitudes, life

Comments:

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p. 348

Summary: 
The Supramental action, and the reason and goal of creation. 

Category: Transformation of Life on Earth, Supramental Existence

Keywords: Supramental action, creation, purpose

Comments:

December 29
p. 349

Summary: 
"We are at a decisive hour in the history of the earth. The earth is preparing for the advent of the supramental being, and because of this the old way of living loses its value. One must launch oneself consciously on the path of the future in spite of the new exigencies. The pettinesses tolerable at one time are no more so; one must widen oneself to receive that which shall be born." (Mother)

Category: Human Limitation, Transformation of Life on Earth

Keywords: decisive hour, earth, Supramental being

Comments:

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p. 352

Summary: 
The fastest way for her to connect to the Divine is through a sense of her own non-entity, non-existence; that only the Divine is what is existent. This helps her progress.

Category: Mother's Yoga

Keywords: one's non-existence, only the Divine

Comments: