March 10, 1965
(Mother first reads a note relating to the events of February 11:)
Behind all the destructions – the big destructions of Nature – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the human destructions – wars, revolutions, riots – there is always Kali’s power and upon earth Kali works for the hastening of the terrestrial progress.
Whatever is Divine not only in its essence but also in its realisation is above these destructions and cannot be touched by them.
In all cases the extent of the damage gives the measure of the imperfection and must be taken as a lesson for indispensable progress.
Yes, it’s the sequel to what you said the other day: those vibrations that enter only insofar as they meet a response.
Yes, exactly.
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(Soon afterwards, regarding an old Playground Talk of March 12, 1951, in which Mother said that man’s two chief occupations are forgetting and keeping himself amused.)
Now I would say many things….
For instance, when the Lord draws nearest to men to establish a conscious relationship with them, it is then that, in their folly, men do the most foolish things.
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It’s true, absolutely true. It is when everything falls silent in order for man to become conscious of his Origin that, in his folly, to keep himself amused, man conceives or carries out the most stupid things.
To keep himself amused, because he can’t bear the strength of the Light.
Yes.
The pressure is too strong.
Yes, some are afraid, they panic. They can’t bear it, so they do anything to get out of that state.
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A little later
While you were in hospital, I had a sort of … I can’t say it was a “vision” because it was very … it was lived. It was lived in the subtle physical world, which is symbolic of Reality (the forms are symbolic of Reality, they express Reality, and at the same time they are self-existent). Almost every night I spend some time with Sri Aurobindo in that world, and things are always happening that are indications. [[Indications for Mother's work or of the general situation or that of the Ashram and the disciples. ]] But that night, it was quite particular.
Sri Aurobindo and I were in an extremely comfortable car, and we were both resting in an eternity of peace and bliss – quietly, next to each other. The car was driven by … the eternal Driver. It was supreme Bliss, you know. Until suddenly, outside the car (I don’t know how), two papers were thrown on the road, and one of the papers was a letter (it was an envelope that had come by mail, there were stamps on it), and the other was something written; and with a lightness (the car was still moving), quite a divine lightness, Sri Aurobindo leaps out of the car onto the road to pick up the letters. I said to myself, “Ah, the Bliss is over … (laughing) now we’ll have to get back to work!” And I also got out of the car (which disappeared).
Sri Aurobindo picked up those letters (at that moment I knew
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exactly what they meant, but it’s secondary), then he took me by the hand (that is, his right hand took my left hand: I was on his right), and we started walking on the road. And while we were walking on the road, after a time (there were many details and things I am not telling because they are incidental, they had their meaning at the time but they don’t matter), while we were walking on the road, he suddenly leaned over towards me and showed me that I was walking on flint. (You know, when the road is made of chips of stones and slightly cambered to make water flow away? On the side some earth has been washed away and sometimes the stones are bared.) And I was walking on those stones – no, he was walking on them and he showed them to me, so I had him walk in the middle of the road and I started walking on the stones so he wouldn’t walk on them (but I didn’t feel the stones at all). And then I noticed (I looked at him at that moment), I noticed Sri Aurobindo’s head … a glorified head, truly a supramental head, a marvel! And his whole body, EVERY PART OF HIS BODY was someone in whom he was manifesting for a particular work or reason, or a particular action in relation to me; and as for me, I wasn’t a person, I was only a Force (I noticed that I didn’t have a body). And I saw all those who were participating (not their physical appearance, but I knew who they were): for this one, such and such a thing; for that one, such and such a thing; the hand, such and such a thing; the arm, such and such a thing … and so on. And I saw his feet: they were my feet with “tabis” on; they were my feet, my feet with getas on. And it was my feet with tabis on that didn’t want to let him walk on the stones, on the side of the road, and that was why he left it….
It was wonderfully clear and meaningful! And I saw, I knew exactly someone’s place in the Work; and in that Work, in that relationship with me, he was supported, directed by Sri Aurobindo…. The whole thing in detail.
It was a revelation with an absolutely wonderful exactness. And that concern he had…. First, the feeling that I WAS his feet (but his white feet with tabis on, as mine are) and that he didn’t want me to walk on the edge, on the rugged stones of the road, and that’s why he left …
It has left me with an absolutely unforgettable impression because it was a revelation of the play of forces – of what things TRULY are in spite of their appearances, which are deceptive.
(silence)
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His head was a splendor. And it dominated everything, that was what did the directing – it was the splendor of his supramental conception that directed everything. And everyone had his place.
I had lots and lots of visions while you weren’t here; but they weren’t visions, of course: it was intense life, and a life that’s TRUE – intense and intensely true.
And then, that sort of thing he was holding with his hand [Mother], which was watching all that, was simply the consciousness, the consciousness that works, the true consciousness; and the feet were my physical presence on the earth.
It was truly very interesting.
And I learned the exact place, the relationship of those who work. But I cannot reveal it. But what I always told you about your place and your work was perfectly true – I saw it at that moment. Perfectly true. Some things were revelations about other people – not many people; not many, but those who have a true relationship with me for the work. And very different relationships, in different worlds, on different levels and for different activities. But they aren’t very numerous, and it was very precise. And then I saw that what I had seen for you was perfectly correct, and that he is HERE, you understand: to do the work, he is with you. When I told you he was in your book, it’s an absolute fact.
That was one of the things I had decided to tell you one day, because …
It’s a world in which things are true. True, and of a reality other than the humanly conceived reality: everything becomes just an appearance; often a false appearance, false in its division, anyway.
(silence)
I can’t tell you to what extent this body was not only happy but full of a sort of blissful glory at being His feet. When I saw that, it was a marvel. And at the same time, there was the sensation, the clear perception of all the relationships for the Work, with the feeling and sensation, the exact perception of the relationship I have with those people – not very many, but I know them.
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