February 1973

07. February 1973 – Message

There is only one solution for falsehood: It is to cure in ourselves all that contradicts in our consciousness the presence of the Divine.

I am very keen on this! It’s very true — very true. It may not be easy to understand, but it’s VERY PROFOUNDLY true.

All in us that veils or distorts or prevents the manifestation of the Divine is the falsehood.

It’s quiet a programme!

That’s what I am doing all the time — every day and all day long, whenever I don’t… even when I see people. It is the only thing worth living for.

08. February 1973 – Preparing for the Psychic Being

To broaden and enlighten your consciousness, naturally. But how to do that?… How do you broaden and enlighten your consciousness? If each one of you could find his psychic being and unite with it, all problems would be solved.

The psychic being is the Divine’s representative in the human being. It’s true, you know: the Divine isn’t something far-off and out of reach; the Divine is within you, but you aren’t fully conscious of it. You have rather… so far it is acting more as an influence than a Presence. It must become a conscious Presence, so at each moment you can ask yourselves how… how the Divine sees.

That’s how it is: first, how the Divine sees; then, how the Divine Wills… then, how the Divine does. It has nothing to do with going off to inaccessible regions: it’s RIGHT HERE. Although, for the moment, all the old habits and the general unconsciousness have put a sort of lid on it, which prevents us from seeing and feeling. We must… we must lift that, lift it off.

Basically, we must become conscious instruments… conscious… conscious of the Divine.

Normally it takes an entire lifetime, or even several lives in some cases. But here, in the present conditions, you can do it in… a few months. Those who have an ardent aspiration can do it in a few MONTHS.

There is no “descent”! That’s another wrong idea. There is no “descent.” It’s something that is ALWAYS here, but you just don’t feel it. There is no descent, that’s a completely wrong idea.

Do you know what the fourth dimension is?

Oh, but it’s precisely the best example modern science can offer — the fourth dimension. The Divine is the fourth dimension for us. It… belongs to the fourth dimension. It’s everywhere, you see — always everywhere. It doesn’t come and go: it’s always there… everywhere. It’s we, it’s our stupidity that keeps us from feeling it. There’s no need to go off anywhere… no need at all, none at all.

To be conscious of your psychic being, you must be able to have felt the fourth dimension, felt it once, otherwise you cannot know what it is… Oh, Lord!

It’s been seventy years since I’ve known what the fourth dimension is — more than seventy years.

Indispensable, it’s indispensable. Life begins with that. Otherwise, you are in falsehood — in a hodgepodge of confusion and ignorance… The mind! The mind! The mind!

Otherwise, to be conscious of your own consciousness, you must mentalize it. It’s dreadful, dreadful!

There you are.

There is — there is, but you aren’t conscious of it. You must… you must… it’s the mind that prevents you from feeling it. One Must BE, you see. All you do is mentalize everything — everything. What you call “consciousness” is thinking things out; that’s what you call consciousness. But that’s not it at all! That’s not consciousness. Consciousness… should be wholly lucid and WORDLESS.

Like that… everything becomes luminous and warm and… STRONG!

And peaceful… a true peace, which is not inertia or immobility.

All… no! They are not all the same age, even when they are the same physical age. Some children are primitive. One should… You see, if you yourself were fully conscious of your psychic being, you would know which children are psychically developed. Some children have only an embryonic psychic — the age of the psychic varies enormously. Normally, it takes several lives for the psychic to become completely formed, and it’s the psychic that passes from one body to another; that’s why we aren’t conscious of our past lives — because we aren’t conscious of our psychic being. But sometimes, at some MOMENT the psychic being participated in a particular event, it became conscious; and that creates a memory. Sometimes you may find you have a partial recollection of something, the fleeting memory of a circumstance or event or thought, or even of an action… It’s because the psychic was conscious of it.

What would you, I am nearing my hundredth year — it’s only five years away — and I started my effort to become conscious when I was five. It’s a fact. That’s telling you… And I am going on, and it is going on. Now, of course, I have come to doing the work in the cells of the body, but the work started long ago.

I don’t mean to discourage you, but only to tell you it isn’t done in a wink!

The body… the body is made of a substance that is still very heavy. It is the substance itself that must change for the Supermind to manifest.

That’s all I can say.

14. February 1973 – About Translator’s ego

Sometimes people understand a poor translation better than a good one.

I can’t personally read through everything, it takes too much time.

Manage with them the best you can.

I am hearing (through Nirod) certain things that Sri Aurobindo said, and he says that even he contradicted himself a great number of times…

…and that, of course, the two or three different approaches are all true. So we can afford to be as… as wide as he is!

Truly speaking, his comprehension of things was very supple — very supple. Listening to certain things he said, I felt I had understood very little of what he meant. Now that I am more and more in contact with the supramental Consciousness, I see how supple — supple and complex — it is, and how it is our narrow human consciousness that sees things… (Mother draws little boxes in the air) fixed, cut and dried.

So… we are under the mind’s sway, and the mind is rigid like this (same little boxes in the air). But I see that as soon as you go beyond the mind, it’s… it’s like waves on the sea.

In a word, we have everything to learn. We try to understand in the mental way, so we understand nothing. We simply demarcate things (same gesture of drawing boxes), and that’s what we call understanding.

When we have thoroughly put everything in boxes (same gesture), then we say we have understood!

17. February 1973 – Our Notions of Good and Evil

I have to cope with everything that contradicts the Divine in the past and the present, and it’s… In this body. I mean, all the past is surging up from the subconscient, and now even everything that was repressed… It isn’t something I “feel” or “experience,” but it’s a perception. The perception… yes, of how all our notions of good and evil, right and wrong are futile for the Divine vision, absolutely futile — unreal.

All human notions are so narrow and limited, so partial and tinged with moral preferences.

As if I were being shown everything in the consciousness that opposes the… immensity — the divine immensity. Everything is so narrow, so small…

18. February 1973 – Physical and Moral Violence

Violence is necessary as long as men are ruled by their ego and its desires. But violence must be used only as a means of defense when you are attacked. The ideal towards which humanity is moving and which we want to realize is a state of luminous understanding in which each person’s needs as well as the harmony of the whole are taken into account.

The future will have no need of violence because it will be governed by the Divine Consciousness, in which all things are harmonized and complement each other.

For the moment, we are still in a stage where weapons are necessary. But it should be understood that this is a transitory stage, not a permanent one, and we must strive for the other one.

Peace… peace and harmony will be a natural outcome of the change of consciousness.

You see, in India there reigns the Gandhian concept of nonviolence which has replaced physical violence with moral violence, but it’s far worse!

But if you dare speak against Gandhi, everyone will immediately… oh!

You don’t need to mention his name, you can explain to the children that replacing physical violence with moral violence is no better. Lying down in front of a train to stop it running is a moral violence that can ultimately cause more disorder than physical violence.

There would be a lot to say… It depends on each case. I myself very much encouraged the practice of fencing because it gives you skill, control over your movements and discipline in violence — I very much encouraged fencing at one time. I learned how to shoot; I used to shoot with a rifle, because it gives you steadiness and skill and a very good eye; and it forces you to remain calm in the midst of danger. All these things are… I don’t see why one should be hopelessly nonviolent, it only makes a spineless character.

Turn it into an art! An art for cultivating calm, skill and self-control. There’s no need to cry out indignantly as Gandhi would. It’s useless, useless, absolutely useless — I am not at all in favor of it! One should master the means of self-defense, and one should cultivate them in order to do so.

Above all, make them understand that moral violence is just as bad as physical violence. It can even be worse, that is, at least physical violence forces you to become strong and control yourself, whereas moral violence is… You may be like this [apparently quiet] and harbor the worst moral violence in yourself.

28. February 1973 – Supramental goes from Truth to Truth

But I know it’s on purpose. I am not worried, because I know it’s on purpose. We have a mental way of knowing, which is worthless — truly worthless. As Sri Aurobindo said, it goes from falsehood to truth — whereas the Supramental goes from truth to truth. And it has nothing to do with the mental approach. That I know. When I am completely still, with no one here and none to disturb me, then… (Mother closes her eyes) a certain condition comes… and you feel that if that developed, it… (Mother smiles silently).

You enter a luminous immensity… devoid of any questions.