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<span lang=EN-GB><font size="4">The Mother Abides</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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lang=EN-GB>&nbsp;</span></p>

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lang=EN-GB>IF it is a 'pralaya', even a 'mahapralaya', all is not lost, all is
not washed away. Something remains, untouched, deathless, the divine part in
you, the Mother's part in you, the consciousness incarnate and articulate.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;
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none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;
mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Indeed it was your soul that
she salvaged out of the inconscience and established in you as a living
reality. That was her first and primary task and She has fulfilled it. It was
there always, true; but it was a far-off, very distant and almost inactive
point of light, an unknown and an uncharted star not yet come into the ken of
human measure and potency. She has brought it nearer home and established in
our living and dynamic consciousness. She has buoyed it up from the unconscious
depths, or brought it down from vague, ethereal, nebulous regions, gradually
developed it and nourished it and given it a firm dwelling in our inner
regions. She moulded it into a personality with a name and a form. If we do not
recognise it often or always, it is because the outer shell of the senses has
not yet been fully opened to it. But it is still there as our inner ruler and
guide in spite of and through all obscurities and aberrations.</span></p>

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lang=EN-GB>Exactly the next step, the second part of her work was to build around
this soul, the inner being, a body, a material vehicle to express it. To give a
concrete divine shape to this sole reality was her labour at this point. The
soul was there, but a god has to come and inhabit it; this godhead, that is to
say, a Power, a form of the Mother's own personality has to be brought down and
the soul integrated into it. Apparently it was left off at that point and not
completed.</span></p>

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an individual realisation or even a realisation in a few individuals, but an
achievement of<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>            </span></span></p>

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'>Page – 92<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>the human race
which means a large or a significant part of it, the effort has had to be
directed to that end. The level of the human consciousness has to be lifted up
to an extent that it might be capable of holding and embodying the inflatus
that was coming into it for the change. Otherwise an individual representing
the human level and forming part of the material consciousness would not be
able to do it. Not only the earth consciousness but the material constitution
of the earth has to be transfigured<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>For
the human body to pass through and complete the stages of transformation must
have parallel echoes in other individuals – not necessarily the whole of
humanity, but as I said, presumably a sizeable part of it. Otherwise the
purpose of the change, a global, collective change will not be fulfilled. An
isolated individual supramentalised body upon earth would be a freak of
Nature, a forced miracle as it were, an anomalous object in Nature, and a
humanity even at its topmost rung would not find any relation or kinship with
it.</span></p>

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lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>So, the earth-nature has to
be prepared for that end in view, first of all the earth-consciousness in the
physical substance and then the raw substance itself. This has to be done as
our immediate and urgent business of life.</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>(2)</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>I said the earth-consciousness was not quite ready yet for the final
transformation of the Mother's body, that is to say, the material substance of
the body. Therefore it could not accommodate the incoming transforming force –
and it broke: in breaking it must have broken through, through the hard dense
outermost crust of matter – with what results, time will show.</span></p>

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lang=EN-GB>As for us who survive, let us begin from the beginning. Let us start
from a scratch as it were. We remember Mother's, own story, what she had done
for herself when she came to Sri Aurobindo. She effaced altogether her old
personality, her achievements and accomplishments, made a clean slate of her
consciousness and laid herself at the feet of Sri Aurobindo like a new-born
babe, innocent of the past. Let us also in the same way face the day with our
baby-soul in front, for that little being is the Mother's Presence in us, still
aglow with her consciousness.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 93<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>(3)</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>&quot;You know, I
was very hesitant to read this to you.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>In one way it is all right, but because. . . .</span></p>

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lang=EN-GB>In fact it is a mental and intellectual presentation of a phenomenon
which goes beyond all intellectual and mental measure. This phenomenon is not
only extra-intellectual, supramental but also supra-cosmic, the sense and
bearing of which will be unveiled in the course of time. </span></p>

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lang=EN-GB>Meanwhile, I think the best thing to do would be to remain quiet
with a serene trust, with all the aspiration of our soul, our soul which is the
concrete presence of Mother Herself in us which we carry within us
always.&quot;¹</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ This comment was
made in French as it was a French class; the original in French is given below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>J'ai beaucoup
hésité, n'est-ce pas, de vous lire ça.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>D'un coté
c'estbien, mais parce que....<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>En fait c'est une
présentation mentale et intellectuelle d'un phénomene qui<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>dépasse toute proportion mentaIe et intellectuelle. Ce
phénomène est non seulement extra-intellectuel, supra-mental mais aussi
supra-cosmique dont Ie gens et la portee se dévoilera au cours du temps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>En attendant je craig Ie mieu'x serait de rester
tranquille avec une confiance seraine, avec toute l'aspiration de nacre âme,
l'âme qui est la présence concrète de Mère Elle-même en nous que nous portons
toujours.</span></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 94<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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