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ASTROLOGY
Do not fear for your life − the astrologers do not always say the truth. 7 November 1939 The stars have no decisive influence. It is only if one does not believe in the Divine that one unnecessarily suffers by believing that they determine one’s life. I have known many astrologers both in Europe and India. So far, nobody has been able to read the future correctly. There are three reasons for the failure. First, the astrologers do not know how to read the future properly. Secondly, the horoscope is always incorrectly made − unless a man is a mathematical genius.
¹ Tape-recorded. Page – 37 And even for such a person it is very difficult to make a correct horoscope. Thirdly, when people say that the stars in this or that house at the time of birth rule your life, they are quite wrong. The stars under which you are born are only “tape-recorders” of physical conditions. They do not rule the future of the soul. There is something beyond, which rules the stars themselves and everything else. The soul belongs to this Supreme Being. And if it is doing Yoga, then all the more it should never believe in the power of the stars or in any other power. An astrologer who predicts a catastrophe for you is like a joker. Many jokers say things like, “Today you will break your neck!” But in spite of the joke nothing happens. Only a great Yogi can tell you your future correctly. But even then there is the Supreme Will which alone controls and decides everything. 8 September 1961 X who has been studying astrology has prepared my horoscope. I send it to you to see. Do you think the indications he has given in it for my future have any value?
The horoscope is sufficiently vague and favourable to be taken in consideration as the base of a mental conception for your future. The most important factor in a horoscope is the intuitive faculty of the astrologer. 6 May 1964 Why do you believe in what the astrologers say? It is the belief that brings the trouble. Sri Aurobindo says that a man becomes what he thinks he is. 1965 Page – 38 Horoscopes have no importance for those who take up yoga, because the influence that works through yoga is much more powerful than the influence of the stars.
Palmistry is a very interesting art, but it depends for its exactitude and truthfulness almost entirely upon the real ability of the one who practises it. Moreover, it relates only to the material destiny and this destiny can be altered by the intervention of the higher forces. 3 January 1951
1 − The One 2 − Decision for Creation 3 − Beginning of Creation 4 − Manifestation 5 − Power 6 − Creation 7 − Realisation 8 − Occult Formation 9 − Power of Static Fulfilment 10 − Power of Expression 11 − Progress 12 − Perfect Manifestation Stabilised Page – 39 1 − The Origin 2 − Appearance of the Creative Consciousness 3 − Sachchidananda 4 − Manifestation 5 − Power 6 − New Creation 7 − Realisation 8 − Double Enclosure ( protection from inner and outer enemies ) 9 − New Birth 10 − Perfection 11 − Progress 12 − Double Perfection (spiritual and material) 14 − Transformations
This morning after Pranam, Thou blest me with four flowers of Sincerity. I feel that there is special significance in it, but I am unable to find out the same. May I know it?
When I picked up the flowers to give you, I felt that several were coming and I willed: “Let it be the number of the states of the being in which the Sincerity (in the consecration to the Divine) will be definitively established.” Four means integrality: the four states of being, mental, psychic, vital, physical. 27 December 1933
Can one tell when the colour yellow indicates the mind and when it indicates light? Page − 40 Greenish yellow is mental. Orange yellow is the symbol of light.
The fox on the envelope means cleverness. 8 January 1932 It is a hare − “prudence”. 9 February 1932 Mother, what does the deer signify?
Gentleness and swiftness of movement.
Generally a snake symbolises a movement of falsehood. When something in the nature is in affinity with falsehood, snakes are attracted. The nature of the falsehood is indicated by the nature of the snake and the plane where it appears. 30 August 1932 Please tell me what the horse means.
The horse signifies the powers of the individual being, which must be controlled (bridled). 1 January 1933 Page – 41 What is the meaning of the drawing You sent me on the envelope?
It is a lamb, which means “purity”. 4 January 1933 What is the significance of the picture You sent me?
This boar is the symbol of desires. 1933 (Significance of the falcon)
Keen sight. 1933 The snake is not the symbol of power but of energy, and just as there are obscure and perverted energies, so too the snake can be the symbol of unregenerate and anti-divine forces. 29 May 1934 Does the cow really have a special sanctity or is it merely a tradition based on economic needs?
Mere tradition based on old symbols.
Mother, what is the meaning of the house in the picture? Page – 42 I do not remember the picture I sent. A house is generally a place of rest and safety.
This little badge was chosen as it is − a single ball hanging from a cord made of countless silk threads − for the following reasons. The ball − the globe − is a symbol of universality, integrality, infinity. One, it becomes the symbol of the Supreme Oneness manifested in all the domains of the being − the multiplicity − represented by the silk cord.
In the picture which I received today from Thee, I see someone offering with two hands a full-bloomed red lotus, a lotus bud and a garland. The background of the picture is yellow in colour. What do all these signify?
The red lotus is the symbol of the Avatar and the offering of the red lotus is meant to suggest the full consecration to the Avatar; the yellow background represents the supramental manifestation. 8 November 1933 Page – 43 What is symbolised by the waterfall in the picture you have given me? Is it not the current of your serene peace and of your divine force which constantly floods me?
Yes, it is the symbol of the descent of the divine forces upon the physical plane. 25 January 1934 Water signifies many things such as fluidity, plasticity, suppleness, the purifying principle. It is the driving force and marks the beginning of organised life.
Water corresponds to the vital, air to mind, fire to the psychic, earth to matter and ether to the spirit. 20 August 1955 The diamond is the symbol of pure spiritual light. No hostile force can cross it. If you put that light on a hostile force, he simply melts away. But the diamond light cannot be used indiscriminately in all cases, because human beings who shelter these adverse forces get very dangerously affected. Of course I am not speaking of material diamonds.
What is the relation between the Supramental Light and the solar light?
The solar light is the symbol of the supramental light. 9 July 1965 Page – 44 We invoke the solar light, symbol of the Supreme Lord, to give us the Light of Truth.
Symbols are a convention, and their value is the same as the value of the languages. 10 April 1966 Page – 45 |
