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7 February 1973

 

On Mother’s message of 31 December 1972.

 

“There is only one solution for falsehood.

“It is to cure in ourselves all that contradicts in our consciousness the Presence of the Divine.”

 

Yes, I insist on that; it is very true, very true. It may not be easy to understand, but it is a very profound truth.

All that veils and deforms and prevents the manifestation of the Divine in us: it is that, the falsehood.

 

It is quite a labour!

 

This is what I have been doing all the while – every day and the whole day long, even while I see people. It is the only thing worth living for.  

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10 March 1973

 

I do not know, whenever I try to come in contact with this consciousness,¹ I have always the feeling, as you say, of a luminous vastness.

 

Yes.

 

But I have the feeling that it does not move, that one is there and one can eternally remain like that, but …

 

It is so. This is my feeling.

 

Is it enough to let oneself be filled with That, is there nothing else to do?

 

I think, I think that it is the only thing. I am repeating always: “What Thou willest, what Thou willest, what Thou willest… let it be what Thou willest, may I do what Thou willest, may I be conscious of what Thou willest.”

And also: “Without Thee it is death; with Thee it is life.” By “death” I do not mean physical death – it may be so; it may be that now if I lost the contact, that would be the end, but it is impossible! I have the feeling that it is … that I am That – with all the obstructions that the present consciousness may still have, that’s all. And then, when I see someone (Mother opens her hands as though to offer the person to the Light), whoever he may be: like that (same gesture).  

 

(Silence)

 

All the while (it is amusing), all the while I have the feeling that I am a little baby who nestles – nestles within … (what to call it?) a Divine Consciousness … all-embracing.

 

¹ The New Consciousness. 

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