... 27 November 1968 It continues.... The body feels that it is beginning to understand. Naturally, for it there is no thought, no thought at all; but these are states of consciousness—states of consciousness that complete each other, replace each other.... And it goes so far as to ask how one can know by thought; for it, the only way to know, to cognise, is consciousness. And this ...

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Vedic and Philological Studies > Note on the Word ‘Go’

... mahi, where all is Truth & Light. Uti is the state of manifestation in Sat, in being, when that conscious existence which we are is stimulated into intensity & produces easily to the waking consciousness states of existence, movements of knowledge, outpourings of bliss which ordinarily it holds guha, in the secret parts of being. The next passage to which I shall turn is the eighth verse of the eighth ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1966 > October 29, 1966

... philosophy—all philosophies, comparative philosophies—in order to make the intellect more supple. But to tell the truth, it doesn't interest me. While states of consciousness—movements of consciousness, states of consciousness—that's tremendously interesting! And going on at the moment there is a very keen, that is, very painstaking study of the relationship between states of consciousness and the ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1966 > October 26, 1966

... it's an experience I've had several times, and with all this work I am doing now, I understand better. You see, what seems to be perpetuated or preserved isn't individuals: it's states of consciousness—states of consciousness. Those states of consciousness manifest through many individuals and many different lives, and those states of consciousness are what progress towards a more and more luminous ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1968 > November 27, 1968

... . Oh, that's right. It's going on.... The body has the impression that it's beginning to understand. For it, naturally, there are no thoughts at all—none at all; but it's states of consciousness. States of consciousness complementing one another, replacing one another.... To such a point that the body wonders how one can know with thought; for it, the only way of knowing, the only way of ex ...

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