Talks by Nirodbaran

22 July 1969

I remember, long, long ago, somebody lost something and Mother told him, "Don't go by your small mind: 'I left it here and then there, etc.' Rather go by intuition." I've tried to put this into practice, in my own small way: sometimes I don't succeed; sometimes I'm right.

You have to practise and learn how to interpret such messages. I have had many queer indications of that sort - dream-revelations. Suddenly you get a flash. It's strange how things are revealed. Once, I wrote a poem and sent it out for publication. I didn't know that it would be published. I wasn't at all sure. I dreamed I saw the journal and the poem. And really it was published! Long, long ago, I wrote an article in The Times of India about Puttur, and I dreamed I had got a hundred rupees in my hand; and really I got that sum.

When I read a poem, a passage, all of a sudden, I get such intuitive understanding. Sri Aurobindo said, "Without trying to think of Supermind, think of Intuition."⁹⁴ It's very important for artists and poets, even for the layman, and for medical men too, who often ask themselves: what drugs will be best to give?

At one time, while we were working with Sri Aurobindo each day,

93Hindi expression that is the equivalent of "Bravo!" normally used as encouragement, but here indicative of Nirod-da's surprise at the tables being turned on him.

94Without trying to fool oneself that one can get the Highest Supermind, one should try to get the more modest and lower Intuition first.

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Mother used to come in at some point in the afternoon, sometimes at 12:30 p.m., sometimes at 1 o'clock, or at half past one. So I used to try out my intuition and say, "Mother will come at half past one today." And she came more or less at the time intuited, perhaps with a few minutes leeway.

That is the way you have to develop faculties. Just try it out in harmless situations. Everything is Divine Will. If your will is in contact with the Divine Will - it is done.