Champaklal Speaks

Understanding without Language

1926-06-25

The kuja used for storing drinking water for Mother had been kept on the terrace for drying in the sun. While talking to Champaben I asked her: “Have you cleaned this kuja?”

Before Champaben could reply, the Mother who was present, said “Yes,” and smiled. Then she added: “I have replied without knowing but I would like to know your question. You see, I didn't know what you said in Gujarati but I understood it. I understand all the languages.”

C: “All the languages?”

Mother: “Yes, but the person who wants to say something must be clear in his mind, absolutely clear. I don't know Tamil, but sometimes when people are clear in their mind, I understand everything.”

C: “Then did you understand everything that Champaben and I were saying? Does your knowing depend upon external circumstances?”

Mother: “Of course, I cannot understand immediately, everything on every subject. But there is another method of knowing. I concentrate and enter into your mind, and I know. But I do not always take the trouble to do this.”

C: “Suppose something is very clear in my mind but I cannot say it, not knowing the language well enough. I then sit quietly near you. Can you know what I want to say?”

Mother: “Yes”

C: “What is the meaning of 'clear'?”

Mother: “People think that their ideas are clear, their feelings are clear; but generally they are not. Very few people have that kind of clear thought in their minds. Take for instance, Madame Potel [a French disciple]. “When she wants to send something to me, a letter or bread or anything, I come to know of it as soon as she thinks of it,—even before I receive what she has sent. That lady has this capacity. Though spiritually she has not advanced very far (she has only recently started her sadhana) she has worked very hard along this line.”

C: “Do you know her thoughts by your power or because she directs it towards you?”

Mother: “Many are advanced in their sadhana but do not have this capacity. They may have big ideas and all that, but not this power. I had a friend who was a beginner in sadhana; yet every time he wrote a letter I used to know its contents before I received it. Only a few have this capacity by birth. So when 1 want to know exactly about the sadhaks I enter into their consciousness and I know what I want to know.”