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... of the world! I shall never be able to hear her. What did you want to ask? Could I ask you another question? Is mental imbalance due to the same cause, Sweet Mother? (Pavitra, repeating) Is mental imbalance due to the same cause? Very often, but not always. Mental imbalance can be due to many different causes. One of them may be simply a physical structure which is defective, a cerebral... that is, something produced at the time of conception. So one can't say that it is due to an additional influence: it was an influence which acted before birth, and the one who suffers from this mental imbalance is not necessarily under a direct adverse influence. It can be a consequence of malformation. Now, when people are divided in their mind, and in one part of their mind aspire for the truth... another don't want them, and not only resist but revolt—which happens often—this indeed creates a terrible inner cerebral struggle, first mental and then cerebral, and this may bring about a serious mental imbalance. There are cases in which it is precisely the opening to a suggestion, an adverse influence, an opening which is the result of a wrong movement—a movement of revolt or of hatred or of violent ...