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In the Meditation Hall

In the Meditation Hall

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RY Deshpande

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The Mother’s messages on the occasions of Durga Puja

For those who use their physical eyes alone, the victory will be apparent only when it is total, that is to say, physical.

2 October 1957

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Today was truly a day of victory, victory over all that yet remained human in the physical consciousness.

O Nature, I bring to thee force and light, truth and power; it is for thee to receive and utilise them. It is thou who wilt be receptive in the fruit of thy creation, man, and open the doors of his understanding; it is thou who wilt give him the energy of progress and the will of transformation; and, above all, it is thou who wilt make him accept the Presence and aspire for Realisation.

18 October 1953

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It is victory day; let it be a true victory of the Spirit over ignorance and falsehood.

6 October 1954

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A verbal notation of the experience I transmitted during meditation:

The annual battle and victory of Durga symbolise the rhythmic intervention of the Supreme Divine Consciousness that periodically gives a new impetus to the universal progress.

26 October 1955

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    This morning I had a visit from Durga. She pays me a visit every year, but this morning it was interesting because she explained to me her point of view, how she feels existence, and at the same time…. You know that she came last year, I told you the story. (Previously, when I used to go downstairs to give darshan, she would not only come but stay there for the whole time.) But when she came last year I told her, “Very good, it’s very good, you fulfil your universal function very well, but you are missing something….” And I explained to her what it means to be in conscious and attentive contact with the Supreme Will and she understood. She understood and adhered, she said yes. And during the year she must have tried, because when she returned this morning, there was really a difference, especially a difference in the understanding, and she explained it to me. Then I spoke to her about the physical human nature and its infirmity, and she told me, “There is in this body something we—all of us up above—do not have and cannot have: the possibility of a constant Presence and of a constant contact with the Divine.” She had never thought of it before! It is since last year. And she said it with such intensity—such intensity and understanding and meaning…. It was as though all human miseries immediately disappeared in front of this EXTRAORDINARY thing—that one could feel the divine Presence in each cell.

    It was really interesting. The morning was really interesting.

    She stayed here while I was bathing, and she told me, “See, you can do all this, and not for a minute, not for a second do you lose the contact with That, with the supreme wonder. And we who are full of power, and of … without any of your petty miseries, any of your petty difficulties, we are so used to our way of being that we don’t see the value of it, it’s something obvious, almost inevitable.” And she said (Mother smiles), “We never think of the Divine, because we ARE the Divine…. So there isn’t that will to progress, that thirst for ever better, ever more—we totally lack it.”

    It was really interesting. I am putting it into words (of course, she didn’t speak to me in French!), but it was very simple, the contact was very simple (gesture of inner exchange), and very natural, very spontaneous. At one point I even asked her (laughing), “Do you enjoy all this worship people give you?” She said no. “No, I don’t care.” She is too used to it, she doesn’t care.

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