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... too natural to... ( gesture of going out above ). But... ( Mother brings her two fists down as if she were forcibly pushed down or held in Matter ). But I didn't take the precaution of really pulling the Force into the body.... I might say that my body had too much (probably the way of seeing and reacting to the material world), too much... 1 Extremely rarely in my life—extremely rarely did I have ...

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... pranam every day. What most people do is simply to pull vital force from the Mother and live on it—but that is not the object of the Pranam. 4 March 1937 Pulling is a psychological act—people are always pulling vital force from each other though they do not do it consciously, i.e. with a purpose in the mind—it is instinctive in the vital to draw force from wherever it can. All contact is in fact a... Mother without the necessity of the physical contact that the true value of the latter can be really active. Otherwise there is a danger of its becoming like a mere artificial stimulant or a pulling of vital force from her for one's own benefit. 2 March 1937 Page 564 Some people seem to think that to prepare themselves for the inner touch of the Mother, they have to go through the preliminary... small or great degree. You have yourself said that after meeting such and such person you felt empty and exhausted—that means the person drew your vital force out of you. That is what people do at pranam, instead of being quiet and receptive, they pull vitally. It can be stopped by cutting off connection, but if the Mother did that at pranam, then the pranam would be useless. 5 March 1937 For many ...

... Aspiration, Calling and Pulling To aspire and to call for help are quite indispensable. Mother, what is the difference between an ardent aspiration and a pulling down of force? It is the vital that pulls down and the psychic that aspires. 20 February 1973 Page 77 There is certainly a great difference between calling and pulling―you can and must always call for... for help and the rest―the answer will be proportionate to your capacity of reception and assimilation. Pulling is a selfish movement that may bring down forces quite disproportionate to your capacities and thus are harmful. Page 78 ...

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... master strokes what you mean by "pulling down"? As I understand it, it is when one makes mental efforts of concentration and meditation without having any eagerness for it. That is not what is meant by pulling. When one is open and too eager and tries to pull down the force, experience etc. instead of letting it descend quietly, that is called pulling. Many people pull at the Mother's forces—trying... opens. 5 May 1932 What is meant by pulling? When we want something from the Mother with a vital desire, is it pulling? What is its effect on us? Yes; that is one kind of pulling—its effect is to blind and confuse the consciousness. But there is also a pulling for right things which is not bad in itself, and most people use—e.g. for Light, Force, Ananda. But it brings more reactions than... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Pulling the Mother's Force I am depressed that the Divine has made me meditate the wrong way for three and a half years without letting me know Page 220 it was wrong. Why did I feel that I must stimulate my aspiration through great concentration ...

... self-forgetfulness, increase your receptivity to the utmost, but never try to pull the Force towards you, for wanting to pull is already a dangerous egoism. You may aspire, you may open Page 241 yourself, you may give yourself, but never seek to take. When things go wrong, people blame the Force, but it is not the Force that is responsible: it is ambition, egoism, ignorance and the weakness... one must on no account seek it or want to pull it down, for even in an infinitesimal quantity it is so powerful and so formidable that it can unbalance the entire system. Since I am speaking to you about it, I would like to recommend something to you. In your desire for progress and your aspiration for realisation, take great care not to attempt to pull the forces towards you. Give yourself, open... more beautiful, more harmonious, happier than the world we live in now, this would perhaps be an undeniable proof. And if we take it a little farther, if, as Sri Aurobindo promises us, the supramental force, consciousness and light transform this world and create a new race, then, just as the apes and animals—if they could speak—could not deny the existence of man, so too man would not be able to deny ...

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... Never Try to Pull the Force I would like to recommend something to you. In your desire for progress and your aspiration for realisation, take great care not to attempt to pull the forces towards you. Give yourself, open yourself with as much disinterestedness as you can attain through a constant self-forgetfulness, increase your receptivity to the utmost, but never try to pull the Force towards... towards you, for wanting to pull is already a dangerous egoism. You may aspire, you may open yourself, you may give yourself, but never seek to take. When things go wrong, people blame the Force, but it is not the Force that is responsible: it is ambition, egoism, ignorance and the weakness of the vessel. Give yourself generously and with a perfect disinterestedness and from the deeper point of view nothing... first thing they do is to "pull" as much as they can into themselves. And then, generally, they receive nothing at all. They tell you, "Ah! I called, I prayed and I did not have the answer. I had no answer, nothing came." But then, if you ask, "Did you offer yourself?"—"No, I pulled."—"Ah, yes, that is why it did not come!" It is not that it did not come, it is that when you pull you remain so shut up in ...

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... bewildered. I had just enough strength to go into my room from time to time and rest on my bed, wrapping myself in the Force to hold out. ...How empty the days are—they are full of empty things, of empty people and empty movement. You feel you must constantly pull down the Force in order to fill up this enormous Emptiness, or else you would be utterly crushed. I keep my watch by Indian time, so that... walking, walking without quite knowing how, in a thick darkness—all I know is the Force, which I hold on to like a drowning Page 111 man.... All that is left is the feeling of being far from home, far from all that is true, good, restful, the feeling of living in a hallucination—and yet, marvelously, the Force is there every minute, I breathe with it, live with it, otherwise I would drop dead ...

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... most people do is simply to pull vital force from the Mother and live on it - but that is not the object of the Pranam.         Pulling is a psychological act - people are always pulling vital force from each other though they do not do it consciously, i.e. with a purpose in the mind - it is instinctive in the vital to draw Page 256 force from wherever it can. All contact... this unity is possible. Perhaps you mean that? But how are you going to do that if the other parts are left to remain as they are? They will go on pulling you out of the true consciousness as they do now. And how are they to be changed if the Mother's Force is not there in them to change them?         There are not many Mothers, there is One in many forms. The Page 252 ... Mother without the necessity of the physical contact that the true value of the latter can be really active. Otherwise there is a danger of its becoming like a mere artificial stimulant or a pulling of vital force from her for one's own benefit.         Some feel that in order to prepare for the Mother's inner touch, they need her physical touch, at least in the beginning.       If they ...

... keeping a hold on it. A domestic detail, for instance, some utterly material things invade my consciousness. The rest is always quiet, but utterly material things become very active. Probably it pulls the Force down into a very material domain.... Page 229 All right. It will calm down as it develops. Yes, I think so. In fact I can see that it's good, it's useful. Oh, yes! Certainly... merged. And that's precisely what Sri Aurobindo explains so well: the difference between one who identifies with the Supreme through self-annihilation and one who can express the Supreme ( gesture of pulling downward ) in a perfected being and everywhere. That's what makes the whole difference. Of X there remained only the outer husk, so to say (a coarse enough husk, besides, thick and heavy, with very... the beginning I thought: maybe it's because... But, no. I am sure. All right. How long do you still have to do it [the yantram]? Till the end of December. The end of December.... The Force, the Power may act, mind you—only, X as an instrument is... barely conscious. It may pass through him—I don't say it won't. Because the remarkable point in the meditations (I took a good look this time) ...

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... cannot be changed. I've done all I could. But I don't like their intention. Yes, he told me, "Mother is my salvation." And I am constantly pulled like this ( gesture of a call from there ); this morning again I was pulled, with something forcing me to go and work there. I knew the EXACT moment when he arrived in their atmosphere (now I don't remember), but exactly at that moment I felt it... what—maybe like a slight lack of courage somewhere, I don't know what.... When he is in front of difficulty, he is instantly tormented. That's what bothers me. Because I have put on him enough force for him to pull through in any event, but if inwardly he starts vibrating, it can't work anymore. I told him that. I told him, "All depends on your tranquillity. If you have trust, nothing can happen to ...

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... will, going out of one's body and remaining just above it), the body is stretched out on a bed, a bench, on the ground, anywhere; you are stretched just above it and from there, consciously, you pull the Force from above, and if you are used to doing it, if your aspiration is strong enough, you get the answer; and then, from there, taking care not to re-enter your body, you begin to push these forces... have told them, you know. But they tell you, "I thought about it, now I know, it is this, it is truly this." If you have the misfortune to tell them, "But this is exactly what I had told you", they pull a long face! And they don't understand any longer. Illnesses enter through the subtle body, don't they? How can they be stopped? Page 267 Ah! Here we are.... If one is very sensitive... any contradiction!... There are two ways of curing an illness spiritually. One consists in putting a force of consciousness and truth on the physical spot which is affected. In this case the effect produced depends naturally on the receptivity of the person. Supposing the person is receptive; the force of consciousness is put upon the affected part and its pressure restores order. Many of you here can ...

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... and spiritual ambition. This formation has never consented to be broken up in order to give place to something more true and divine. Therefore, when the Mother has put her force upon you or when you yourself have pulled the force upon you, this in you has always prevented it from doing its work in its own way. It has begun itself building according to the ideas of the mind or some demand of the ego... conscious of its action?" I do it in the same way that I surrender to the Force above. I simply imagine that there is the Force above or that there is a psychic being in the heart centre. Imagining so, I surrender myself to it. It is then a saṅkalpa of surrender. But the surrender must be to the Mother—not even to the Force, but to the Mother herself. But I do not know whether surrender to the... likes, it does not want to feel another force than that of its own nature leading or driving it; but surrender to the Mother means that it must give up all these personal things and allow her Force to guide and drive it in the ways of a higher Truth which are not its own ways: so it resists, does not want to be dominated by the Truth Light and the Mother's Force, insists on its own independence and refuses ...

... part of the being, and if he concentrated there ... His idea was, "I want to know what's happening, I want to be conscious of what's happening, I want to see what's happening." So that's what pulled the Force. A simple thing. It seems to me there is a progress in human consciousness—that's my impression. There is an awakening. Then Mother goes into a long concentration I have seen... that sensation more marvellous than anything one can conceive." 2 I found that interesting. And that brought him back to life. ( silence ) I took it as one of the signs that the Force is really at work. Because I don't think that man had done any yoga, he knew nothing about those things; he is just a gentleman-who's-had-an-injection-of-penicillin which he can't tolerate (those accidents... gesture ) And the whole thing was like a nimbus, like the haloes they paint, you know? It was all a nimbus of golden light, not bright but golden. Did you feel anything special? Yes, the Force—massive. Very powerful? Yes. Yes, they were things organizing themselves in your being—your inner being—but powerfully. Page 229 × ...

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... to have it. Yesterday evening, I gave him a little over twenty minutes of concentration. He was sitting and I was standing, holding his hands.... "Never pull down on yourself," it is said, but you can pull down on someone else—I pulled the Force all out. It was so powerful that his hand kept trembling 2 while mine was still! Afterwards, once it was over, I wondered how it could be, I didn't understand:... staying: it brings back Page 330 the difficulty instantly. But I saw—I saw it: it did stop. For me that was an obvious proof. And I did it deliberately. It's true that it is dangerous to "pull down" because if the resistance is too great, something gets demolished, but there was nothing to risk anymore since he himself was ready to go to Madras to be sent to another world. I did it. Truly... know, but with the inner vibrations of his being (lack of faith and so on) it could only be momentary. But it happened. And it wasn't through an imposition: it was through a relaxation, with the Force descending like a mass, brrf! Tremendous, mon petit!... Two or three times there was a loosening [in the doctor], then it resumed: it was as if driven out of the brain, and it came back into the brain; ...

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... because we started from wrong premises; two assumptions mainly were responsible for the bankruptcy which befell latter-day Science. First, it was assumed that a push and pull—a force (a gravitational or, more generally, a causal force) existed and that acted upon isolated and independent particles strewn about; and secondly, they were strewn about in an independently existing time and Page 234 ... governing all motions, even accelerated motion and not merely uniform motion) that sought to replace the laws. of gravitation did away also with the concepts of force and causality: it stated that. things moved not because they were pulled or pushed but because they followed the natural curve of space (they describe geodesies, i.e., move in the line of least distance). Space is not a plain surface... and posited: First, that this universe is made up of particles that push and pull each other, the particles having certain constant values, such as in respect of mass and volume. Page 230 Secondly, that the laws governing the relations among the particles, in other words, their push and pull, are laws of simple mechanics; they are fixed and definite and give us determinable ...

... because we started from wrong premises; two assumptions mainly were responsible for the bank-ruptcy which befell latter-day Science. First, it was assumed that a push and pull – a force (a gravitational or, more generally, a causal force) existed and that acted upon isolated and independent particles strewn about; and secondly, they were strewn about in an independently existing time and Page... laws governing all motions, even accelerated motion and hot merely uniform motion) that sought to replace the laws of gravitation did away also with the concepts of force and causality: it stated that things moved not because they were pulled or pushed but because they followed the natural curve of space (they describe geodesics, i.e., move in the line of least distance). Space is not a plain surface... and posited: First, that this universe is made up of particles that push and pull each other, the particles having certain constant values, such as in respect of mass and volume. Page 310 secondly , that the laws governing the relations among the particles, in other words, their push and pull, are laws of simple mechanics; they are fixed and definite and give. us determinable ...

... the Force I mean [ by writing "let the Force come in" ] that you need not pull it down, but you should aid its entry by your full aspiration and assent. Page 480 This sort of giddiness and weakness and disturbance ought not to take place. When it comes it shows that more Force is being pulled down than is assimilated by the body. At such times you ought to rest till the disturbance... except the force itself, is one that comes especially when the mind and vital have not assimilated the Power. It is the feeling of something extraordinary to them and omnipotent; the idea of breaking or crushing is suggested by the rajas in the vital. Afterwards when quietly assimilated this sensation disappears and only the feeling of calm strength and immovable firmness remains. Pulling Down the... is certainly a mistake to bring down the light by force—to pull it down. The supramental cannot be taken by storm. When the time is ready it will open of itself—but first there is a great deal to be done and that must be done patiently and without haste. Shaking or Swaying of the Body That [ shaking of the body ] sometimes happens when the Force is coming down. It must be allowed to pass off as ...

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... without resistance." ( after a long silence ) It happened to her before she left [for Europe]. I got an impression (not in thought: something like a super-sensation) that she may have "pulled," because the force that came through her was too great for her. That I'd seen before—I saw it, felt it before she left. But I saw her when she came back and... it was as if she had gone out of the atmosphere... of Z's case." When I saw she could want to pull Page 286 people from here, that... as a mental aberration, it's serious. Her aberration is to have the "realization," as she says, that it's "everywhere the same thing," and that external forms—Mother, Sri Aurobindo—are a sort of illusion, while in reality there's one great impersonal force, everywhere the SAME. ( Mother nods her... vital), and she says, "The Divine is everywhere," it's "Love immense" and "Everything flows through me without resistance...." As a matter of fact, when you're near her, you feel a considerable vital force, which largely exceeds her, and to her, what expresses itself there, at this level [solar plexus], is the Divine. ( In a sad tone ) Ah!... All is "Love immense" and it's "the same thing everywhere" ...

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... answer your aspiration, you pull them down like that, towards yourself with a very egoistical movement, as though you were pulling a rope or something, and so anything at all can come in answer. Instead of its being, for example, a true light, it can be a false light which takes brilliant appearances to deceive you; instead of its being a true force, it can be an adverse force of the vital which wants... "Desire... leads to pulling down the force": what does this mean? You see, one has an aspiration for Light, for Knowledge, for all kinds of things. Now, if a desire is mixed with your aspiration, instead of simply aspiring and awaiting the answer, you begin to pull, as one draws things when one desires them—you draw them to yourself. So instead of waiting for the Force and Light and Consciousness... working and makes you do the things required for this thing to be done. Your will is an executing power, which ought to be at the disposal, the service of what was decided by the reason or a higher force. It is something coordinated, organised, which acts in accordance with a plan, precisely in a fully controlled way. Desire is an impulse. It takes hold of you... it doesn't necessarily hold you with ...

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... either to excess of effort, meaning often much labour and a limited fruit, with strain, exhaustion and in case of difficulty or failure despondence, disbelief or revolt; or else it leads to pulling down the force. That can be done, but except for the Yogically strong and experienced, it is not always safe, though it may be often very effective; not safe, first, because it may lead to violent reactions... the basis of that peace a new Force from above. It is not effort that brought the inspiration. Inspiration comes from above in answer to a state of concentration which is itself a call to it. Effort on the contrary fatigues the consciousness and therefore is not favourable to the best work; the only thing is that sometimes—by no means always—effort culminates in a pull for the inspiration which brings... Inspiration or Force (any Force) works of itself and the mind and vital and even body are glowing instruments and the Force flows out in an intense and happy working—an almost labourless labour. The Working of the Force When you have opened yourself to a higher Force, when you Page 268 have made yourself a channel for the energy of its work, it is quite natural that the Force should flow ...

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... there were petrifactive springs). There was a reason. 3 And I saw for Sri Aurobindo (although he hadn't yet started this systematic transformation; but still, he was constantly pulling the supramental force down into his body), even in his case, it took five days to show the first slight sign of decomposition. I would have kept his body longer, but the government always meddles in other people's... you are "dead," how does the force that groups all those cells together abdicate its will to hold them all together?... Naturally, I was told right away (because Page 268 the problem—all the problems—come from everywhere, and it's purposely that I am shown the problem and made to struggle with it; it's not just as an "idea"), I was told right away that that force, that consciousness which... there, there, the whole thing in my body, all that was going on. And while it went on, I would put the concentration of the divine Force there, so that all—all that pain, all that suffering, everything—would hasten the preparation of the earth and the Descent of the Force. And that went on consciously throughout the war. Page 271 The body was built for that purpose. At the time, there ...

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... dharma and has beautiful features and is an ocean of noble qualities, it is not in propriety that he be taken by my ministers; for this reason I have come myself in person. Then Yama pulled out with force Satyavan's soul, the Page 43 being no bigger than the thumb, who is fettered by his body and subject to it. With the departure of the life-breath his respiration ...

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... Mother were felt over us, he would jump up and stand right beneath the Mother, the spot where the Mother stood during the Darshan. Looking up at Her, he would stand arrested in concentration, pulling down the Force and Light that was the Mother. I could not reach him, but I thought the best way to attract the Mother's attention on me would be to stand just beside the statue of concentration and prayer ...

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... understood them. He has been following a yogic discipline (anyway, he "thought" he was doing yoga)... and he pulled down the Force. The Force responded... ( Mother laughs ). He wound up with a headache! He got frightened and wrote to me in these exact words: "This Force is the Lord's Force" (which is true, quite true), "and it has turned into fear. So ( Mother laughs ) fear is the Lord's principal... There you have it. He read in books that the Lord is behind everything, that there is nothing that isn't the Lord; so it's the Lord who has become perverted in His manifestation, naturally.... The Force of the Lord came to help him and was changed into fear, so "the Lord's principal perversion is fear"! If you read that, you'd say he was going off his rocker. Yes, one can say absolutely anything ...

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... he says, is normal... Can descent produce such a havoc? A descent cannot possibly produce nausea and vomiting etc. There can, if one pulls down too much force, be produced a headache or giddiness; both of these go if one keeps quiet a little, ceases pulling and assimilates. A descent cannot produce blood pressure, madness or apoplexy or heart failure or any other illness. What I gather from... was that, of course—but lack of faith was not enough to produce such an upsetting. It was something in opposition and hiding itself, that got terrified when it saw its companion pulling down the Force. For after all he did pull. Mother felt him doing it even last time he came to Pranam. I am afraid all of us have these things, to some degree. I am a little shaken because of your hint at the resistance... the bones! Only the bones? Already I am feeling awfully pulled down, on top of that M 40 sits; and the Purushottama crowns them all. I ask myself—whither, whither are you going, my friend, and what awaits you? Perhaps the Paratpara Purusha beyond even the Purushottama. But why this pulled downness? You are not pulling down Purushottama or any other gentleman from the upper storey ...

... activity and self-reliance. This formation has never consented to be broken up in order to give place to something more true and divine. Therefore, when the Mother has put her force upon you or when you yourself have pulled the force upon you, this in you has always prevented it from doing its work in its own way. It has begun itself building according to the ideas of the mind or some demand, trying to... activity and a much too eager attempt at rapid progress. Instead of calmly receiving he has been seizing at everything that came and trying to translate it and throw it out into form. He has also been pulling at realisation and trying, as Mirra has put it, to swallow the world in a minute. The result is that there has been an uprush of some undesirable kind from the imperfect vital being and the physical... favourable force can only come in waves which must be realised at once, otherwise the adverse forces will intervene and create all difficulties. Also it will not do to relax effort or turn it elsewhere when things seem to promise favourably,—the promise is likely to be deceptive because that is just the moment for the hostile intervention. As in the Yoga, so here the will and the force must be kept ...

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... given to you in the right kind or condition of meditation—a state of inner rest, not of straining, of quiet opening, not of eager or desperate pulling, a harmonious giving of oneself to the Divine Force for its working, and in that quietude a sense of the Force working and a restful confidence allowing it to act without any unquiet interference. Now that condition is the beginning of the psychic opening;... y and quietly give it the right turn—and the door opens. It is not that this pulling and straining and tension can do nothing; in the end they prevail for some result or another, but with difficulty, delay, struggle, strong upheavals of the Force breaking through in spite of all. Ramakrishna himself began by pulling and straining and got his result but at the cost of a tremendous and perilous upsetting;... between a mental and vital straining and pulling and a spontaneous psychic Page 191 openness, and it is not at all the first time that we have spoken of the difference. It is not really a question of the right or the wrong key, but of putting the key in the lock in the right or the wrong way, whether because of some difficulty you try to force the lock turning the key this way and that ...

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... strokes what is "pulling down" which is so often used by you in connection with our sadhana? I understand by it that one goes on making mental effort without having any eagerness about it. That is not what is meant by pulling. When one is open and too eager and tries to pull down the force, experience etc. instead of letting it descend quietly, that is called pulling. Many people pull at the Mother's... your recent remarks about some patients I find that it is not so. On the contrary you say that the Force can act better and quicker when there is a proper diagnosis. In that case you depend upon human instruments which being fallacious and ignorant mostly, will paralyse or baffle the working of the Force. It can if you can train it to act in that field and if you can make it the real Intuition which... latent medico. If I had, I would not need an external one but diagnose, prescribe and cure all by my solitary self. My role in a medical case is to use the force either with or without medicines. There are three ways of doing that—one by putting the Force without knowing or caring what the illness is or following the symptoms—that however needs either the mental collaboration or quiescence of the victim ...

... the impossibility, the falsehood, at its roots in the subconscient and inconscient, or to transform it into Truth. But the evolutionary past with its ‘downward gravitation’, its magnetic down-pulling force, was present in each atom of the body of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as it was in each atom of the body of their disciples and in each psychological movement of their character, in most cases darkening... published under the title The Mother. In this booklet he says: ‘There are three ways of being of the Mother of which you can become aware when you enter into touch of oneness with the Conscious Force that upholds us and the universe. Transcendent, the original supreme Shakti, she stands above the worlds and links the creation to the ever unmanifest mystery of the Supreme. Universal, the cosmic ... human personality and the divine Nature.’ 8 The Mother as Maheshwari is the personification of the supreme power and wisdom, as Mahalakshmi of harmony and beauty, as Mahakali of the combative force which destroys with Love in order to build up what is greater, and as Mahasaraswati she is the omnipotent but meticulous power who organizes the cosmos and the molecule. The Family of the Aspiration ...

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... either to excess of effort, meaning often much labour and a limited fruit with strain, exhaustion and in case of difficulty or failure, despondence, disbelief or revolt; or else it leads to pulling down the force. That can be done, but except for the yogically strong and experienced, it is not always safe, though it may be often very effective; Page 74 not safe, first, because it may... many ways at once. What does she want exactly? A Guru? You know what this path is and how exclusive and exacting. "Unity" of Kansas city, Charles Fillmore's Christian Healing and supramental Yoga pulling the same chariot would be a picture! I have not forgotten my promise to explain the sparkles to you. Free Will is still "under consideration." February 7,1931 Certainly, firmness... no longer attractive,—a sure sign that the psychic and the Yogic consciousness are gaining ground. As for sex, the progress you report is also excellent; sex is almost the strongest of human vital pulls and to master it altogether takes time, but here too a good beginning is half the battle. For the rest, I had told you that even when people do not seem to be progressing outwardly a preparatory ...

... in which there was a mention of pulling the supramental Force. Mother made it clear that pulling is not advisable. What is needed is aspiration; aspiration that is self-giving. (Mother makes a gesture by hands of self- offering) If one starts pulling, the ego and selfishness create trouble. In Auroville also people are pulling. I asked about the pulling by people in Auroville. Is it by... by their vital or by their mind ? Mother replied that there are some who pull by the mind, and there are some who pull by the vital. One is as bad as the other. * * * 23.12.71 (To one who asked Mother about stopping his activities because his mind is not pure.) If men had to stop work when they are not perfect, everybody would stop working. It is in the work that we... Requests for birthdays approved. Two Aurovilians wished to go to France to bring money and equipments for Auroville. Mother remarked, "They go but do not bring anything. They go because of the pull of the old life. But in such cases I say one can go." Michel Klostermann informs Mother about the completion of the shooting of the Swiss TV film on Auroville. He wants a name for the film and ...

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... in which there was a mention of pulling the supramental Force. Mother made it clear that pulling is not advisable. What is needed is aspiration; aspiration that is self-giving. (Mother makes a gesture by hands of self- offering) If one starts pulling, the ego and selfishness create trouble. In Auroville also people are pulling. I asked about the pulling by people in Auroville. Is it by... by their vital or by their mind ? Mother replied that there are some who pull by the mind, and there are some who pull by the vital. One is as bad as the other. * * * 23.12.71 (To one who asked Mother about stopping his activities because his mind is not pure.) If men had to stop work when they are not perfect, everybody would stop working. It is in the work that we... Requests for birthdays approved. Two Aurovilians wished to go to France to bring money and equipments for Auroville. Mother remarked, "They go but do not bring anything. They go because of the pull of the old life. But in such cases I say one can go." Michel Klostermann informs Mother about the completion of the shooting of the Swiss TV film on Auroville. He wants a name for the film and ...