February 1972

01. February 1972 – Difficulties

The first thing the physical consciousness must realize is that all the difficulties we encounter in life arise from the fact that we do not rely exclusively on the Divine to find the help we need.

The Divine alone can liberate us from the mechanism of universal Nature. And this liberation is indispensable for the birth and development of the new race.

Only if we give ourselves entirely to the Divine with total trust and gratitude will the difficulties be surmounted.

02. February 1972 – Physical Mind is gone!

“…Everything was simply taken away from me — the mind is completely gone. If you like, in appearance, I had become an idiot. I didn’t know anything. And it’s the physical mind that developed little by little, little by little…”

One shouldn’t repeat “little by little.” It is not little by little. It was rapid because it took place suddenly. It came like this — one night I understood… It came… truly it was miraculous (but I didn’t want to say anything); suddenly the vision of the world and then the vision I had… were removed and this [new] knowledge was simply put like that (Mother gestures as if she had been suddenly crowned by or immersed into that knowledge). But that I did not want to say.

One shouldn’t repeat “little by little.” The correct phrase is: little by little, through successive revelations. That’s how it was.

“This [radical change] could be accomplished because I was very conscious of my psychic… it remained and enabled me to deal with people, with no difference — thanks to that psychic presence…”

It is the psychic that deals with people. It was ALWAYS the psychic that dealt with people, and it continues. This [radical change] didn’t make any difference.

“I understand and hear people only when they think clearly what they say. And I see only what expresses the inner life.”

Well, some people come to see me, they come in: I see only a silhouette. Then suddenly it becomes clear-cut. Then off it goes again — DEPENDING ON THEIR THOUGHT. It’s extremely interesting!

“Surrender does not imply trust; trust is something else, it is a kind of knowledge — an unshakable knowledge, which nothing can disturb — that WE change into difficulties, suffering, misery what is… perfect peace in the divine Consciousness.”

This is extremely important. An extremely important discovery. It was fundamental. It is WE, the distortion within OUR consciousness that changes into pain what in the divine Consciousness is perfect peace, and even joy — an immutable joy, you know. It’s fantastic. And I’ve experienced this CONCRETELY. But it’s difficult to put into words.

05. February 1972 – Message

To want what the Divine wants in all sincerity is the essential condition for peace and joy in life. Almost all human miseries come from the fact that human beings are almost always persuaded they know better than the Divine what they need and what life is supposed to bring them. The majority of human beings want other human beings to behave according to their own expectations and life circumstances to follow their own desires, hence they suffer and are unhappy.

Only by giving oneself in all sincerity to the Divine Will does one gain the peace and calm joy that arises from the abolition of desires.

The psychic being knows this definitely. Thus, by uniting with our psychic being, we can know it, too. But the first condition is not to be the slave of personal desires and mistake them for the truth of one’s being.

07. February 1972 – Message

In the depths of our being, in the silence of contemplation, a luminous force permeates our consciousness with a vast and luminous peace which prevails over all petty reactions and prepares us for union with the Divine, the meaning of individual existence.

Thus, the purpose and goal of life is not suffering and struggle but an all-powerful and happy realization.

All the rest is but a painful illusion.

08. February 1972 – Message

From a spiritual point of view, India is the foremost country in the world. Its mission is to give the example of spirituality. Sri Aurobindo came on earth to teach this to the world.

This fact is so obvious, that even a simple, ignorant farmer here is in his heart closer to the Divine than all the intellectuals of Europe.

All those who want to become Aurovilians must know that and behave accordingly, otherwise they are unworthy of being Aurovilians.

In the beginnings of humanity, the ego was the unifying element. It is around the ego that the various states of being were formed. But now that a superhumanity is about to be born, the ego must disappear and leave place for the psychic being which has slowly developed through divine agency to manifest the Divine in man.

The Divine manifests in man under the psychic influence, and that is how the coming of superhumanity is prepared.

The psychic being is immortal, so through it immortality can manifest on earth.

Hence, the important thing now is to find one’s psychic being, unite with it, and allow it to replace the ego, which will be forced either to convert itself or disappear.

09. February 1972 – True Sincerity

The first thing one learns on the way is that giving brings much greater joy than taking.

Then, gradually, one learns that selflessness is the source of an immutable peace. Later, in this selflessness one finds the Divine, and that is the source of an unending bliss…

One day Sri Aurobindo told me that if people knew that and were convinced of it they would all want to do yoga.

The complete unification of the whole being around the psychic center is the essential condition to realize a perfect sincerity.

I have noticed that people are insincere simply because one part of their being says one thing and another part says something else. That’s what causes insincerity. It came very clearly: a vision, you know, an inner vision. So I tried to put it down on paper; I don’t know if it’s clear.

But that’s when you’re not unified, mon petit. It’s been a-l-w-a-y-s like this for me (Mother draws a straight line in front of her) for years and years. It comes from here, the psychic consciousness, and it’s CONSTANT.

Recently, for a few moments, I had the experience [of the non-unified consciousness]; I hadn’t known that in years-many years, at least thirty years. From the moment the psychic being became the master and ruler of the being, it was OVER — it is over — and now it’s like this (same straight gesture). That is the sure sign. Constantly like that, constantly the same. And all the time: “What You will, what You will.” Not a “You” up there, at the back of beyond, whom one doesn’t know; He is everywhere, He is in everything, He is constantly there, He is in the very being — and one clings to that. It’s the only solution.

Because it’s something I discovered recently. I saw why people are insincere (even when they make an effort): because now it’s one part, now the other, now yet another part of them that asserts itself; each part is quite sincere in its own assertion, but is in disaccord with the others.

The psychic consciousness has always been there, controlling and guiding the being. All the impressions, everything was referred to it, like this (gesture of placing something before a spotlight), so it would give the true direction. And the physical, for its part, is sort of constantly attentive to the Divine Command.

And that was constant, constant — even BEFORE coming here. It was so when I arrived here (long, long ago). And it has remained unchanged. Only recently did I have the experience [of the non-unified consciousness], for a few hours one night, two or three hours — it was horrible, really, it seemed like hell. It was to make me touch, to make me grasp the condition people live in. Imagine when the psychic is no longer there….

But it’s in the BODY — in the body: the body is listening, listening, constantly listening (gesture above or within) — listening. But [the Divine Command] is not expressed in words, it comes as a will asserting itself (a straight and imperturbable descending gesture).

It is only when the supramental manifests in the physical mind that its presence can be permanent.

The body is no longer quite on this side, you see, and not yet on the other, so it lives in a kind of precarious balance, and the slightest thing upsets it — I can’t swallow anymore or even breathe anymore… The feeling of a life which is about to depend on different conditions than the usual ones. But those other conditions aren’t there yet, nor is the body familiar with them, and so the transition from one state to the other is a perpetual source of problems. When I am very quiet — very quiet — everything is fine, but if there’s the slightest effort, everything goes awry.

I think… I have the feeling that if all goes well, in a few years I’ll be able to do many things… but not yet. If all goes well, at one hundred — I feel at one hundred years I Will be strong. The body itself has a conviction that if it lasts till one hundred, then at one hundred it will have a new strength and a new life. But… these are just the difficult years.

The years of transition… (Mother puts her head in her hands).

It’s interesting. When I am quiet, I hear a kind of great chant — almost a collective chant, I could say: OM Namo Bhagavateh… As if all of Nature went (rising gesture): OM Namo Bhagavateh…

10. February 1972 – Message

Human consciousness is so corrupt that people prefer the misery and ignorance of the ego to the luminous joy that comes from sincere surrender to the Divine. Their blindness is so great that they refuse even to attempt the experience and prefer to be subjected to the misery of their ego rather than make the necessary effort to free themselves from it.

Their blindness is so total that they would not hesitate to make the Divine a slave to their ego, if such a thing were possible, just to avoid giving themselves to the Divine.

11. February 1972 – Message

Supreme Lord, teach us to be silent, that in this silence we may receive Your force and understand Your will.

16. February 1972 – Living in the Future

In fifty years the whole world, all the receptive section of humanity (I am not saying intellectual, I am saying receptive), all the receptive section of the world will be embraced — not "embraced": ABSORBED in the power of Sri Aurobindo's thought.

Those who already are have the good fortune of being the first ones, that's all.

(silence)

It’s very interesting, you know, the greater part live in the past; a good number (they are more interesting) live in the present; and just a few, an infinitesimal number, live in the future. That’s true.

Whenever I look at people and things I always get the feeling of going backwards! (gesture of turning around and looking behind) I know (it’s not even “I know,” or “I feel,” it’s none of that), I AM — I am ahead. In consciousness, I am in the year 2000. So I know how things will be, and… (Mother laughs) it’s very interesting!

Three quarters of humanity are obsolete.

22. February 1972 – Message

All day long on the 21st I had a strong feeling that it was everybody’s birthday, and I felt an urge to say “happy birthday” to everyone.

A very strong impression that something new was manifesting in the world, and that all those who were ready and receptive could incarnate it.

In a few days, probably, we will know what it was.

23. February 1972 – Message

Life on earth is essentially a field for progress; how short life is for all the progress we have to make!

To waste time seeking the gratification of one’s petty desires is sheer folly. True happiness can be attained only by finding the Divine.

…Almost all human miseries come from the fact that human beings are almost always persuaded they know better than the Divine what they need and what life is supposed to bring them…

Supreme Lord, Perfection we must become, Perfection we must manifest.

This body lives only by You and says to You over and over again:

"What You will"

"What You will"

until the day it knows it automatically because its consciousness will be completely united with Yours.

26. February 1972 – Enwrapped in the Divine

It is only when the Supramental manifests in the body-mind that its presence can be permanent.

Mother

Well, mine has now lost the habit of running about. This habit must be got rid of.

I don’t know, for it’s spontaneous. Except when someone talks to me or something comes and breaks that state, but otherwise, left to itself, the body is quite naturally like this (immutable gesture, turned to the above). Perhaps this is the means (same gesture upwards): a contemplation of the Divine.

This is its natural state (same gesture). The actual feeling is even curious, you know… the body feels as if it were completely enwrapped like a baby, exactly like this (gesture), enfolded in the Divine.

Two or three days ago (I don’t remember when), something was pressing on my heart — and it hurt. It hurt, (it was the 24th). I really had the feeling that… the body had the feeling it was the end. But then immediately, it felt as if enfolded… like a baby carried in the arms of the Divine. The exact sensation, you know, as if I were a baby being carried in the arms of the Divine. And after some time (a long time), when the body was exclusively in the Presence, it went away. The body didn’t even ask for the pain to go; it just left. It took a little while, but it left.

I haven’t told anyone. I thought… I thought the end had come. It was just after lunch….

Absolutely, but absolutely the sensation of being a baby nestling (gesture) in the Divine’s arms. Extraordinary!

I think it’s really the sensation of the helplessness of a baby, you understand? And it’s not something you “think” or “want”: it’s totally spontaneous. And from there, you go into a state of… (Mother opens her hands, a blissful smile on her face).

As long as there’s the sense of a person who wants, a person who does, it’s useless… (same gesture, smiling with hands open).

That’s exactly what my body feels all the time. You see, it is like… like a baby nestling. Exactly that sensation.

I think… I think my body has become excessively sensitive and needs to be protected from all those things coming in. As if it had to work inside, you know… as in an egg. Yes, that’s it. Exactly.

Yes, that’s it. Exactly so. I think a whole work is being done within.

Oh, in terms of the old way, it’s becoming more and more stupid, but the new way is beginning to emerge.

One would like, so much, to remain like this (same enveloping gesture), to remain like this for a long, long, long time.