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On Thoughts and Aphorisms Vol. 10 of CWM 363 pages 2001 Edition
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The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' spoken or written in French.

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms

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Ce volume comporte les commentaires de la Mère sur les Pensées et Aphorismes de Sri Aurobindo, et le texte de ces Aphorismes.

Collection des œuvres de La Mère Pensées et Aphorismes de Sri Aurobindo Vol. 10 436 pages 2009 Edition
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The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' were given over the twelve-year period from 1958 to 1970. All the Mother's commentaries were spoken or written in French. She also translated Sri Aurobindo's text into French.

Collected Works of The Mother (CWM) On Thoughts and Aphorisms Vol. 10 363 pages 2001 Edition
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Pensées et Aphorismes : traduction et commentaires

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Aphorism - 152, 153

152—When our minds are involved in matter, they think matter the only reality; when we draw back into immaterial consciousness, then we see matter a mask and feel existence in consciousness alone as having the touch of reality. Which then of these two is the truth? Nay, God knoweth; but he who has had both experiences, can easily tell which condition is the more fertile in knowledge, the mightier and more blissful.

153—I believe immaterial consciousness to be truer than material consciousness, because I know in the first what in the second is hidden from me and also can command what the mind knows in matter.

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How can one always remain in an immaterial consciousness?

One cannot and it would not be good.

Sri Aurobindo does not mention here the consciousness that is higher than either of the two consciousnesses in question (material and immaterial), that is, the supramental consciousness which contains all the other consciousnesses in itself and can thus know everything on all planes of being. This is the consciousness we should aspire for, this is the consciousness which can teach us the total Truth.









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