March 9, 1968
(Regarding an old Playground Talk of May 27, 1953, in which
Mother says in particular, "When the consciousness behind is
developed, when you have the power to concentrate it,
whatever you do that consciousness will act.")
That was this morning’s very experience.
The experience was like this: the important thing is to keep the consciousness of the Presence, which means that the Presence must be concrete; then, in everything you do, everything you say – whatever you may do, whatever you may say – it’s this Presence that expresses itself. And this morning’s experience was to find the difference between the direct expression and the more or less veiled expression; and the difference of quality in the expression depended on the mental judgment, that is, the mind in everyone judges that difference, but that’s only an individual question; from a general point of view, the things that seem to us the least transparent or expressive are sometimes the best expressions.
It’s hard to explain.
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There was the perception of what the mental consciousness ADDS to the action of the supreme Consciousness, and that addition, or judgment, was still something quite relative – relative to time, to the occasion, the person; it’s not an absolute: in one case, a particular clothing will be a perfect expression, and in another case, the same clothing won’t be…. It was a long experience of the relativity of the mental world with regard to the supreme Consciousness expressing itself.
It came in the wake of a sentence someone had written (I forget who, some writer or another), which said (I am adapting it), “When one sees how humorous the creation is, one is certain that the Creator must be smiling….” With that sentence, I saw how relative the clothing is in the human consciousness – there is no absolute, no absolute expression, the expression is always relative, and the impression it leaves is relative to the individual perceiving it.
I am trying to express it, but it was a concrete experience: the relativity of the mental clothing on the action of the higher Consciousness.
So then, the experience came to this: being as passive and translucent as possible so as to let the vibration of the Consciousness express itself with the least possible distortion in its clothing. And that was the attempt.
(Reverting to the old Playground Talk.) I would no longer be able to deliver speeches like that! I find it presumptuous! (Mother laughs)
Now all experiences, all of them, come as if to let life grow clear (it’s quite interesting), to put things in their place. And all preferences, all opinions, all attractions, all distastes, all that is going away … in a kind of smile, in fact – not in indifference, but in a smile, the smile of the extraordinary relativity of the manifestation. And there begins to come the perception of what a true manifestation would be – in a sort of very supple harmony, smooth, and very vast. It’s in process of formation. Very interesting.
And these things (showing the Playground Talk) are still too cut-and-dried. But I quite understand that if now I were to tell experiences like the one I had this morning, it would be almost incomprehensible – too far from [people's] consciousness.
There.
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