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Well, yes, the psychic is behind the whole organisation,
this triple organisation of human life and consciousness, the psychic
is behind and supports it by its consciousness which is an immortal
one. It is because of the psychic that we have, so clear a sense
of continuity. Otherwise if you compare what you now are with what
you were when you were three, obviously you couldn't recognise yourself
in any way, either physically or vitally or mentally. There is no
resemblance of any kind. But behind there is the psychic which supports
the development, the growth of the being and gives this continuity
of consciousness, makes one feel that he is the same being even
while being absolutely different, absolutely different. If later
one observes himself sufficiently, he can see that the things he
understood and could do at that time are things which seem to him
absolutely inconceivable now, and that he could never do a similar
thing because he is no longer that person at all. And yet, because
within there was the psychic consciousness which is immortal, one
has the feeling that it is always the same being which was there
and continues to be there and will continue to be there with more
or less progressive and more or less conscious changes.
THE MOTHER
The source of sincerity, of will,
of perseverance is in the psychic being, but this translates itself
differently in different people. Generally it is in the higher part
of the mind that this begins to take shape, but for it to be effective
at least one part of the vital must respond, because the intensity
of your will comes from there, the realising power of the will comes
from its contact with the vital. If there were only refractory elements
in the vital, you would not be able to do anything at all. But there
is always something, somewhere, which is willing -it is perhaps
something insignificant, but there is always something which is
willing. It is enough to have had once one minute of aspiration
and a will even if it be very fugitive, to become conscious of the
Divine, to realise the Divine, for it to flash like lightning through
the whole being -there are even cells of the body which respond.
This is not visible all at once, but there is a response everywhere.
And it is by slowly, carefully putting together all these parts
which have responded, though it be but once, that one can build
up something which will be coherent and organised, and which will
permit one's action to continue with will, sincerity and perseverance.
Even a fleeting idea in a child, at a certain
moment in its childhood when the psychic being is most in front,
if it succeeds in penetrating through the outer consciousness and
giving the child just an impression of something beautiful which
must be realised, it creates a little nucleus and upon this you
build your action. There is a vast mass of humanity to whom one
would never say, "You must realise the Divine" or .'Do
yoga to find the Divine." If you observe well you will see
that it is a tiny minority to whom this can be said. It means that
this minority of beings is "prepared" to do yoga, it is
that. It is that there has been a beginning of realisation -a beginning
is enough. With others it is perhaps an old thing, an awaken- ing
which may come from past lives. But we are speaking of those who
are less ready; they are those who have had at a certain moment
a flash which has passed through their whole being and created a
response, but that suffices. This does not happen to many people.
Those ready to do yoga are not many if you compare them with the
unconscious human mass. But one thing is certain, the fact that
you are all here proves that at the least you have had that- there
are those who are very far on the path (sometimes they have no idea
about it), but at the least all of you have had that, that kind
of spontaneous integral contact which is like an electric shock,
a lightning-flash which goes through you and wakes you up to something:
there is something to be realised. It is possible that the experience
is not translated into words, only into a flame. That is enough.
And it is around this nucleus that one organises oneself, slowly,
slowly, progressively. And once it is there it never disap- pears.
It is only if you have made a pact with the adverse forces and make
a considerable effort to break the contact and not notice its existence,
that you may believe it has disappeared. And yet a single flash
suffices for it to come back.
If you have had this just once, you may tell yourself
that in this life or another you are sure to realise .
THE MOTHER
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