January 12, 1965The Mother
Agenda
Volume 6
January 12, 1965
(Regarding an old “Playground Talk” of March 8,
1951, in which Mother spoke of the being that possessed and “guided”
Hitler: “Hitler was in contact with a being whom he considered to be the
Supreme: that being would come and give him advice and tell him all
that he had to do. Hitler would withdraw into solitude and wait long
enough to come into contact with his ‘guide’ and receive inspirations
from him which he would afterwards carry out very faithfully. That being
whom Hitler took for the Supreme was quite simply an Asura, the one
called in occultism ‘the Lord of Falsehood,’ and he
proclaimed himself to be ‘the Lord of Nations.’ He had a resplendent
appearance and could pull the wool over anyone's eyes, except one who
truly had occult knowledge and could thus see what was there, behind the
appearance. He could have deluded anyone, he was so splendid. He
generally appeared to Hitler wearing a breast-plate and a silver helmet
(with a sort of flame coming out of his head), and there was around him
an atmosphere of dazzling light, so dazzling that Hitler could hardly
look at him. He would tell him all that he had to do – he would play
with him as with a monkey or a mouse. He had set his mind on making
Hitler do all possible kinds of folly... until the day when he would
come a cropper, which is what happened. But there are many cases like
that one, on a smaller scale, naturally. Hitler was a very good medium,
he had great mediumistic capacities, but he lacked intelligence and
discernment. That being could tell him anything and he would swallow it
all. That's what prodded him on little by little. And that being would
do that as a pastime, he didn't take life seriously. For those beings,
people are very small things with which they play as a cat plays with a
mouse, until the day when they eat them up.”)
I knew that being very well (for other reasons... the story would be too long to tell), and once, I knew he was going to visit Hitler – I went before he did: I took his appearance, it was very easy. Then I said to Hitler, “Go and attack Russia.” I don't exactly remember the words or the details, but the fact was that I told him, “Go... In order to have the supreme victory, go and attack Russia.” That was the end of Hitler. He believed it and did it – two days later, we got the news of the attack.1 And then, the next day, that is, when I came back from Hitler, I met that being and told him, “I've done your job!” Naturally enough, he was furious!
But all the same, in that consciousness, there is with that being (the Lord of Falsehood, one of the first four Emanations), there is despite everything a very deep relationship, of course. He said to me, “I know, I know I will be defeated eventually, but before my end comes I will wreak as much destruction on earth as I can.”
Then, as I told you, the next day, the news of the attack came, and that was really the end of Hitler.
As for Sri Aurobindo... (you know that there is a place in
Russia where they were
defeated2), Sri Aurobindo had foreseen the defeat and had worked the night before, and that's how it happened – we knew ALL THE DETAILS.
We never told this, of course, but it was perfectly precise.
But I knew that being, I had already seen him in Japan – he called himself “the Lord of Nations.” And he really was a form of the Asura of Falsehood, that is, of Truth which became Falsehood: the first Emanation of Truth, who became Falsehood.
And he hasn't been destroyed yet.
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Then Mother prepares the aphorism for the next Bulletin:
108 – When he watched the actions of Janaka,3 even Narada the divine sage4 thought him a luxurious worldling and libertine. Unless thou canst see the soul, how shalt thou say that a man is free or bound?
This raises all sorts of questions. For instance, how is it that Narada was unable to see the soul?
To me, it's very simple. Narada was a demigod, as we know, and he belonged to the overmental world and was able to materialize – those beings don't have a psychic being. The gods don't have in themselves the divine spark which is the heart of the psychic being, since only ON THE EARTH (I am not even referring to the material universe), only on the earth was there the Descent of divine Love that was the origin of the divine Presence in the heart of Matter. And naturally, as they don't have a psychic being, they don't know, they have no knowledge of the psychic being. Some of those beings even decided to take on a physical body in order to experience the psychic being – not many.
They generally did it only partially, through
an “emanation,” not through a complete descent. It is said, for
instance, that Vivekananda was an incarnation (a vibhuti) of Shiva's; but Shiva himself... I have had a very close relationship with him and he
clearly expressed the will to come down on earth only with the
supramental world. When the earth is ready for supramental life, he will
come. And almost all those beings will manifest – they are waiting for
that moment, they do not want the present struggle and darkness.
And, certainly, Narada was among those who used to come here.... After all, it was fun! He would play a lot with circumstances. But he didn't have the knowledge of the psychic being and that must have prevented him from recognizing the psychic being when he found himself in its presence.
But all those things cannot be explained: they are personal experiences. This knowledge isn't objective enough to be taught. It comes from my relationship with all those beings, from exchanges with them – I knew them even before I knew the Hindu tradition. But you can't say anything about a phenomenon that depends on a personal experience and has value only for the one who had the experience. Because everyone has the right to say, “Well, yes, YOU think that way, YOUR experience is that way, but it has value only for you.” And it's perfectly true.
What Sri Aurobindo says was based on his erudition of India's tradition, and he says what was in agreement with his own experience, but he based himself on an erudition and knowledge that I don't have.
I can only repeat what he said.
All that can be asked is how do you see the soul? To see the soul, you must yourself know your own soul.
Yes, to be in contact with the soul, that is to say, with the psychic being, you must carry in yourself a psychic being, and only men – the men of evolution, those issued from the terrestrial creation – possess a psychic being.
All those gods are without a psychic being, it's only by coming down, by uniting with the psychic being of a man that they can have one, but they themselves don't have one.
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(Soon afterwards, about Satprem's illness. It may
be noted that since his operation – for a complicated peritonitis –
Satprem has been a victim of violent bouts of fever with fainting
spells, as if the heart were giving way. Yet he walks about and goes
on with his work. This Agenda will again be interrupted for more than a
month, Satprem having to be taken to the Vellore hospital, 120 miles
from Pondicherry.)
...You must emerge from this (Mother touches her forehead) completely, but emerge, you know, into Freedom (gesture of a bursting above), because I have some things I'd like to tell you, beautiful things, but I can tell them only when you feel that... you are on top of the situation.
It will come.
Not that I am unaware that your condition isn't very pleasant,5 I am under no illusion, but it's in order to progress by leaps and bounds.
There you are.
The main thing is to bear up. And in order to bear up, I have found only one way: that calm – the inner calm – a calm that must grow all the more... (how can I put it?) complete the more material the struggle is.
There has been lately (especially since January 1st) a sort of bombardment by the adverse forces – a rage, you know. So we have to keep like this (Mother becomes still like a statue), that's all. And when one has been shaken physically, one shouldn't ask too much of the body, one should give it a lot of peace and quiet, a lot of rest.
My difficulty is that I'm very absorbed by this body. It absorbs me, it absorbs a lot of my consciousness. The physical mind, for instance, invades me completely.
Yes, I know very well! But that's always the
difficulty, it's everyone's difficulty. That's why in the past you were
told, “Get away from it all! Let it puddle about peacefully – get away
from it all.” But we don't have the right to do that, it's contrary to
our work. And... you know, I had reached an almost absolute freedom with
regard to my body, to such a point that I was able not to feel anything
at all; but now I am not even allowed to exteriorize, can you imagine!
Even when I am in some pain or when things are rather difficult, or even
when I have some quiet (at night, that is) and I say to myself, “Oh, to
go into my beatitudes ...,” I am not allowed to. I am tied like this (Mother touches her body). It's HERE,
here, right here that we must realize.
That's why.
It's only now and then, for a precise action (sometimes it comes like a flash, sometimes just for a few minutes), that the great Power of the past (which I used to feel constantly) comes, brrm! does its work, then goes away. But NEVER FOR THIS BODY. Never. It doesn't do anything for this body – it isn't a higher intervention that will change it, it's... from within.
And because, first, of what you know, because of what you have seen, because of your contact with Sri Aurobindo, because of your contact with me, the same thing is happening to you, and that's what makes the difficulty. That's why I am telling you, “It doesn't matter, don't worry if you are preoccupied with your body: simply try to take ADVANTAGE of this – advantage of this preoccupation – to bring the Peace, the Peace into your body....” I am constantly enveloping you, as it were, in a cocoon of peace. And then if in this mind, too, which vibrates and vibrates, fidgets all the time (really like a monkey), if you can bring into it... it's a Peace that doesn't come through the higher mind: it's a Peace that acts DIRECTLY in this material vibration – a Peace in which everything relaxes.
Don't think – don't think you have to transform this physical mind or oblige it to fall silent or abolish it: all that is still activity. Simply let it run, but... bring the Peace, feel the Peace, live the Peace, know the Peace – the Peace, the Peace, the Peace.
That brings fever down instantly – almost instantly.
It's the only way.
And naturally, people who come, letters, all the things that come from outside bring along that same bustle – that should be kept to a minimum.
Sujata is very peaceful, contact with her is good.
1 The lightning offensive of June 22, 1941.
2 Stalingrad, on February 2, 1943.
3 Janaka: Mithila's king at the time of the Upanishads, celebrated for his spiritual knowledge and divine realization, though he led the ordinary worldly life.
4 Narada: a wandering sage who goes about playing the vina. Immortal like the gods, he appears on earth whenever he wishes. He is mentioned as far back as the Upanishads.
5 It was in fact an attack of tuberculosis.