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03. June 1970 – True Aurovilian

TO BE A TRUE AUROVILIAN

1) The will to consecrate oneself entirely to the Divine.

That’s what HE said. I found it fine.

2) The Aurovilian must not be a slave to his desires.

The idea is this: “We come to Auroville to escape social and moral rules that are artificially practiced everywhere, but it is not to live in the licentiousness of the satisfaction of every desire: it is to rise above desires in a truer consciousness.” Something like that…. It appears they quite need this! (Mother laughs) So we should add it.

1) The first necessity is the inner discovery so as to find out what one truly is behind all social, moral, cultural…racial, hereditary appearances.

But then, we should tell them that there IS a discovery to be made, because many don’t know it at all! (Mother laughs)

In the center, there is a free being, vast and knowing, which awaits our discovery and must become the acting center of our being and our life in Auroville.

We should teach them to free themselves from the idea of personal possession… You see, everything belongs to the Divine, and the Divine gives you not only a center (the center of your individuality), but also the possibility of the personal use of a number of things; but you must take them all like that, as things LENT to you by the Divine. The Divine is eternal, of course, he is everlasting, as they say in English, and at the same time as he creates this individual center, a number of things are there to be used for his work, so those things are LENT. That’s exactly the point: you hold them in your possession for a time.

It’s to uproot the sense of personal possession.

The only true way to cure desires is to give oneself to the Divine and accept what He gives you as the only things you need. But that’s already very advanced.

2) One lives in Auroville to be free from moral and social conventions; but that freedom must not be a new slavery to the ego, its desires and ambitions.

The fulfillment of desire bars the road to the inner discovery, which can only take place in the peace of perfect disinterestedness.

3) The Aurovilian must free himself from the sense of personal possession.

For our transition in the material world, what is indispensable to our life and action is put at our disposal… according to the place we are to occupy.

The more we are CONSCIOUSLY in contact with our inner being, the more the exact means are given to us.

It’ll become interesting!

03. June 1970 – Mother’s Vision with the Age of 12

When I was a child (about twelve years old) I knew nothing of spiritual things, my family lived in a completely materialistic atmosphere; but once, I saw something in a dream: a being came to me, a woman, and she told me, “What you need you will always have in abundance.” That was Nature, material Nature, the same being I always saw later on. And it’s true, absolutely true! (Mother, laughing, shows the jumble around her) Later, when I saw Théon, he explained to me; but at that time, I knew nothing at all, it wasn’t made up by my thought, it came without my knowing anything: “What you need you will always have in abundance.” (Mother laughs) It’s true!

06. June 1970 – True Aurovilian

4) Work, even manual work, is indispensable to the inner discovery. If one does not work, if one does not put one’s consciousness into matter, it will never develop. To let consciousness organize some matter through ones body is very good. To put things in order around oneself helps to put things in order in oneself.

Another point:

One should organize one’s life not according to external and artificial rules, but according to an organized inner consciousness, because if one leaves life alone without imposing on it the control of a higher consciousness, it becomes hazy and inexpressive. It means wasting one’s time, in the sense that matter remains without conscious utilization.

06. June 1970 – Savitri: Love and Death

If thou art Spirit and Nature is thy robe,

Cast off thy garb and be thy naked self

Immutable in its undying truth,

Alone for ever in the mute Alone.

Turn then to God, for him leave all behind;

Forgetting Love, forgetting Satyavan,

Annul thyself in his immobile peace.

O soul, drown in his still beatitude.

For thou must die to thyself…

Savitri, X.IV.647

But that’s a very interesting phenomenon. Every time I read Savitri, I feel as if I am reading it for the first time, really. It’s not that I understand differently, it’s that its completely new: I never read it before! It’s odd. Its at least the fourth time I read it.

And truly there’s everything in it. All the things I’ve discovered lately were there. And I hadn’t seen it. It’s odd.

The first time I read it was a revelation; it hung together perfectly well from beginning to end, and I felt I had understood (I did understand something). The second time I read it, I said to myself, “But this isn’t the same thing as what I read!…” It hung together, it made up a whole — and I understood something else. Then, recently when I read, at every passage I said to myself, “How new this is! And how the things I have found since are there!” Today again, that’s how it is, as if I read it for the first time! And it puts me into contact with the things I have just discovered.

It’s a miraculous book! (Mother laughs)

10. June 1970 – True Aurovilian

5) The whole earth must prepare for the advent of the new species, and Auroville wants to consciously work to hasten that advent.

6) What this new species is to be will be progressively revealed to us. In the meanwhile, the best way is to consecrate oneself entirely to the Divine.

17. June 1970 – Constant Vision

I live in a constant sense of wonder! Every minute, what comes is what’s necessary: circumstances, reactions… everything, everything, there’s a constant vision of the wonderful way in which things are organized, the world is organized.

And what he says here, the way things are organized to make you advance fast and give you the maximum, the optimum condition of progress — that’s marvelous. And always it comes and presses on the very spot (Mother presses her thumb) where there was a weakness, an incomprehension… always.

(Mother goes into a contemplation)

It has been a long period during which the physical has replaced the absent mind and vital, and they have been replaced by something unlike what was there before. It’s very interesting, but it has to go to the end [before I can talk about it]. The work has to go to the end. And it’s a long-drawn-out work.

20. June 1970 – The Force of Transformation

You see, the Force of transformation is working very, very strongly, and many people are like that: the functions are no longer “normal,” as they are called, that is to say, the functionings are changing, and so the first impression is always that of a disorder. But if one can put in the body this sort of tranquil patience, you know, like that, free of worry, after a time things are fine… With digestion, for instance, one day you can’t digest anything anymore, so you think that… and then, if you stay VERY STILL, like that, without worrying — above all, without worrying — you see that it slowly takes on a different movement, and then it’s all right… but in a different way, a completely new way.

27. June 1970 – Experience of the Consciousness

All these last few days, it has been this experience of the consciousness that a very slight shift (how could I put it?), a very slight change of attitude, which isn’t even expressible, and in one case you are in divine bliss; then, things remaining exactly the same, it almost becomes a torture! That’s something constant. At times, you know, the body would scream in pain, and… a very slight, very slight change, which is almost inexpressible, and it becomes bliss — it becomes… it’s something else, this extraordinary thing of the Divine everywhere. So the body is constantly switching from one to the other, like a sort of gymnastics, a struggle of the consciousness between the two.

And all these suffering vibrations (Mother points to her cheek) are as though supported by the mass of the general human consciousness — that’s right. While the other [state] is supported by… something that doesn’t seem to intervene, that’s like this (immutable gesture) in comparison with this human mass that tends to express itself… So all that is impossible to say.

Constantly, constantly, there is either this immutable Peace — this superlative Peace, you know, which is more than any peace one may feel — and at the same time one knows (I can’t say “one feels,” but one knows) that the movement of transformation is so rapid that it can’t be perceived materially. And the two are concomitant, this body goes from one to the other, and sometimes… sometimes almost the two together! (Mother shakes her head, noting the impossibility of expressing herself.)

So then, to the vision of ordinary things, anyway of life as it is, it gives a perception from the standpoint… not the divine standpoint, but in comparison with the Divine, it gives the perception of a general madness, and no really perceptible difference between what people call “mad” and what they call “reasonable.” That… it’s comical, the difference people make. One would be tempted to say, “But you are ALL like that, to varying degrees!…” So…

All that is a WORLD of simultaneous perceptions, so it’s really impossible to speak.

For instance, with anything happening, there is, at the same time, the explanation (“explanation” isn’t the right word, but anyway…), the explanation of the ordinary human consciousness (“ordinary,” I don’t mean banal, I mean the human consciousness), then the explanation as Sri Aurobindo gives it in an illumined mind, and then… the divine perception. All three simultaneously, for the same thing — how, how do you describe it?!

And it’s constant, it’s all the time like that. So then, this (Mother points to her body) isn’t in a condition to express itself, it’s not the time for expression.

To such a point that when I write it’s also like that. So I try to put what our idiotic formulas can hold — and I put so much, so much that can’t be expressed with words, that when they read back to me what I wrote, I feel like saying, “You must be joking, you took away everything!…”