thought for today as Delhi burns
I am so upset about the Delhi bomb blasts, Connaught Place, Regal Cinema, GK, Children's Park, Barakhamba Road, all places I know and love. The hate and anger has to stop. The machinations of politicians and secret services to disrupt neighbours must not carry on. NDTV.com is doing a great job of showing footage of this terrible carnage.
I knew people of great intelligence, admirable artists who, as soon as they began to "relax", became utterly foolish! They did the most vulgar things, behaved like ill-bred children - they were relaxing. Everything comes from this "need" of relaxation; and what does that mean for most men? It means, always, coming down to a lower level. They do not know that for a true relaxation one must rise one degree higher, one must rise above oneself. If one goes down, it adds to one's fatigue and brings a stupefaction. Besides, each time one comes down, one increases the load of the subconscient - this huge subconscient load which one must clean and clean if one wants to mount, and which is like fetters on the feet. But it is difficult to teach that, for one must know it oneself before one can teach it to others.
This is never told to children, they are allowed to commit all the stupidities in the world under the pretext that they need relaxation.
It is not by sinking below oneself that one removes fatigue. One must climb the ladder and there one has true rest, because one has the inner peace, the light, the universal energy. And little by little one puts oneself in touch with the truth which is the very reason of one's existence.
If you contact that definitively, it removes completely all fatigue.
- The Mother [CWMCE, 4:156]
I knew people of great intelligence, admirable artists who, as soon as they began to "relax", became utterly foolish! They did the most vulgar things, behaved like ill-bred children - they were relaxing. Everything comes from this "need" of relaxation; and what does that mean for most men? It means, always, coming down to a lower level. They do not know that for a true relaxation one must rise one degree higher, one must rise above oneself. If one goes down, it adds to one's fatigue and brings a stupefaction. Besides, each time one comes down, one increases the load of the subconscient - this huge subconscient load which one must clean and clean if one wants to mount, and which is like fetters on the feet. But it is difficult to teach that, for one must know it oneself before one can teach it to others.
This is never told to children, they are allowed to commit all the stupidities in the world under the pretext that they need relaxation.
It is not by sinking below oneself that one removes fatigue. One must climb the ladder and there one has true rest, because one has the inner peace, the light, the universal energy. And little by little one puts oneself in touch with the truth which is the very reason of one's existence.
If you contact that definitively, it removes completely all fatigue.
- The Mother [CWMCE, 4:156]
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