Mother comes in with a bad cold
There were constant obstructions here, between the nose and the throat, and I was silly enough to complain about it; I said it really didn't make sense and it had better go - so then ... the drastic method.
But this morning I was told to "rest," that is, to go within. I said I had other things to do - then it came over me forcibly! Which means that something suddenly comes to me, I see it, and then, quite naturally, I concentrate on it - and I realize I've gone away!
It was like that this morning, while I was working.
They are always sending me photos of people who went to get married (it has become a craze), and I am asked if they are well-matched, if it's all right. And I immediately see - I immediately see the sort of life they will have together, it's very funny! Today there were three couples like that. In the first, the man was intelligent, sensitive, with an emotional side in need of something, of a response. The woman, rather stupid, rather ordinary too. Not at all made for one another. But I was looking, and as I looked I saw what had happened: one day she had a sort of sentimental and emotional formation coming through her, and it so happens that that day she met this man, who was exactly in need of that. He said to himself, "This is it!" All his friends told him, "No, no, don't marry this woman, it will never work," and they are right. But he said, "I felt something." And that was just a day when it caught hold of her and he happened to be there. So I saw it all (it was very amusing), and off I went!
(Mother goes into a meditation,
then suddenly breaks off)
Why? There's a purple V in front of you. A purple V - not purple: dark mauve, the color of the vital. A V of victory.
Has something happened?
I don't know.
As broad as this, luminous, mauve. And it was in front of you,
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you were seated between its two wings. It was for you. Has anything special happened?...
(Mother resumes her meditation)
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