September 11, 1968
For me, only one thing has happened…. A very interesting fact that I noted. I forget the occasion and how it took place, but it was the day before yesterday, and the fact I noted was the presence of the psychic being – that the psychic being hasn’t gone at all. I said [on August 28], “The vital and the mind have gone,” but the psychic being hasn’t.
I think it was in relation to someone I saw (I don’t remember), and I noticed that a very great power was there; and the PHYSICAL being, the body, was conscious of the presence of the psychic being,
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which was constantly there, behind. It hasn’t gone. Conscious.
It was a day when someone had come (I forget who), and the whole Force which was there before concentrated on that person – it was the same thing: the Force, the Presence, with the same Pressure on the person. And then, it was the psychic being which said, “But I haven’t gone, I’ve remained here!” With its full consciousness, you understand. It’s the intermediaries [i.e., the mind and the vital] that have gone.
It’s difficult to explain…. There is the impression of a lack – a lack from the active point of view, the point of view of everyday action.
But the contact with people, for example (the contact with people present and even when they’re not there), the relationship has remained the same, exactly the same. It’s even more constant: this state is more constant than it used to be.
It’s very difficult to explain.
Here, we could put it like this: any action (occult action, I mean) seems to be at least as strong at a distance as in the presence – in certain cases, stronger. Any need of activity (there already wasn’t much of it previously) has considerably lessened. And there is a sort of difference in the outward relationship, it has changed. These last few days I have observed (and it’s obviously the psychic consciousness that observes; when I say “I,” it’s not – that’s what struck me – it’s not the body: it’s the psychic consciousness), and for example, the habit of keeping my eyes closed has increased, and it doesn’t hamper the psychic being in any way. It goes on with its action, its relationship.
It may be (I am not saying anything because there’s nothing very … nothing definite, at any rate), there may be a new relationship or new intermediary being built between the psychic being and the material, the physical. It seems to be something now developing.
We’ll see.
But the Force that expresses itself, does it express itself directly
or through the psychic being – this descending Force?
The psychic being is perfectly transparent, it doesn’t cause any change.
It must depend on the case, yes, on the kind of action: on people, circumstances. Because the psychic being doesn’t in any way alter either the quality or the nature or the action of the Force. It’s like something absolutely transparent.
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It varies rather according to the cases in which the Force wants to apply itself: cases, people, circumstances. When the action is general, it seems to be direct. But I am not absolutely sure. And the presence of the psychic being makes itself felt only in the case of certain people.
It strikes me as a kind of beacon – a beacon projecting the Light – and at the same time, a sort of receiving set that receives the vibrations…. It’s very, very accurate – very accurate – as regards the quality of the vibrations of everything around it. Oh, it’s become far more accurate than before. A slight movement here, there, or there, or a wave – all that is perceived very clearly, very clearly, with a consciousness which is highly receptive and at the same time without any reactions. There are no reactions, it’s like an extremely delicate (that is, sensitive) receiving set, but without any reaction. No reaction. Things come into a vast, immense, luminous movement.
The consciousness is constantly like this: something very vast – very vast – VERY peaceful, very luminous, like that, and everything gets registered in it.
The Power comes from above. And the Power is something … (what should I say?) as if warm, golden. And it gives the impression of being … (smiling) more compact.
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(Soon afterwards, Satprem reads Mother a Playground
Talk of July 15, 1953.)
"You will see that your whole conception and notion [of heaven and hell] is based on one thing, an entity you call God, and a world you call his creation, which, to your mind, are two different things – one having made the other, the latter being subjected to the former and the expression of what the former made. Well, that’s the initial error. But if you could feel deep down that there is no division between that something you call God and that something you call the creation; if you thought, ‘It’s exactly the same thing,’ if you could FEEL that what you call God (which is perhaps a mere word), what you call God suffers when you suffer, is ignorant when you are ignorant, and it is through this whole creation that he finds himself again little by little, step by step, unites with himself, realizes himself, expresses himself, and it’s not at all
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something he willed arbitrarily and made autocratically, but it is the growing, increasingly developing expression of a consciousness that objectifies itself to itself … Then, instead of being like a little child who kneels down, folds his hands and says, ‘God, I implore You, make me a good boy, let me not cause my mother any sorrow …’ (that’s very easy and, well, I can’t say it’s bad!), instead of lighting a candle and kneeling before it with folded hands, light a flame in your heart and have a great aspiration for ‘something more beautiful, truer, nobler, better than anything I know; I ask that tomorrow I begin knowing all those things and begin doing all that I cannot do – and every day a little more.’ Then, if you objectify a little, if for some reason you have been put in presence of a lot of misery in the world, if you have unhappy friends or suffering parents or difficulties – anything – then you ask that the entire consciousness may rise TOGETHER towards that perfection which must manifest, that all this ignorance which has made the world so unhappy may be changed into enlightened knowledge, that all that bad will may be illumined and transformed into benevolence…. And how lovely those prayers would be!"
I remember that during those “classes,” on certain days I knew it was the psychic that spoke, and on other days it was only the mind. And that day, I remember, the psychic presence was very strong.
It’s interesting.
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