<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; ">
<title>&quot;Words, Words, Words</title>

</head>

<body lang=EN-US style='tab-interval:.5in'>

<table border="0" cellpadding="6" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="100%">
	<tr>
		<td>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN-GB><font size="4">&quot;Words,
Words, Words..</font></span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font size="4">.&quot;¹</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<div class=Section1>

<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
<span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:18.0pt;'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>WHILE coming to
you, I saw your beautiful display of excerpts and quotations from the writings
of Mother and Sri Aurobindo on the walls all around. Yes, it was a beautiful
picture – and the sayings and mottoes and lines of poetry were, needless to
say, precious treasures dear to us. But – left at that, to see, admire and pass
on, well – they are dead things – words, words, <span class=GramE>words</span> –
lifeless skeletons. They have a meaning and they serve their purpose only when
you come in contact with the life and consciousness in them, when you live them
with your own life and be the consciousness that is there.</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>You know the well-known phrase: the letter kills, the spirit saves.
Without the spirit, the word is only a dead shell, even a mantra is a dead
thing – a mere jumble of sounds if it is not enkindled, enlivened with the
spirit. Now I say you are to breathe your own spirit into the apparently dead
or lifeless forms. For children <span class=GramE>are</span> nothing but
spirit: spirit means new consciousness, living light, it is not a tall claim I
make on your behalf. I will explain.</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>You children who are here, who have been here for sometime, are a
privileged class of human beings. You do not know it but you will know one day.
You must have seen the <span class=GramE>Mother,</span> many perhaps had her
physical touch, while there are others who continue to breathe in the
atmosphere where her body still endures. You have within you the rare thing
hardly found elsewhere, the spark of which I was speaking – it is a particle of
the Mother's own consciousness, her own life and her own subtle body-consciousness.
You have imbibed it in you with your breath and are still imbibing.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</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;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt'>¹ A talk to young children given on </span><st1:date Year="1974"
Day="12" Month="8"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
 12.0pt'>12 August 1974</span></st1:date><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>. </span>
<span
style='mso-tab-count:1' lang="EN-GB">&nbsp; </span>
<span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 98<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>It is there, you have to be, conscious of it and realise the full
benefit out of it. You are to be the living, not merely echoes and imprints but
embodiments of the Word of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. You are now only an
embryo, a rudimentary particle of the new life – but it is there – you have in
you the thing needed essentially – I only remind you to make you conscious of
it. Even as you have budding gymnasts and an athlete among you, the playground
makes you conscious of it, offers you the opportunity to cultivate and develop
and bring it to fruition.</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>Now in a general way children all over the world are a privileged
class. They possess what old age, even mature age does not possess or has lost.
I mention two essential qualities pre-eminently belonging to the green age or
to the &quot;salad days&quot;: Happiness – a child is ever happy – in spite of
its occasional weepings and wailings – and happiness means a radiant smile. To
the old people I have often said, &quot;Always smile. Mother has taught us how
to smile in all circumstances.&quot; Well, that is the natural gift of the
young. A smile makes your life's journey smooth. In no other way can you remove
so successfully the obstacles that beset you. And also that is the lever to
lift up your consciousness – it has a mysterious power that automatically
relieves you of much of the burden of life, lightens you and leads you into a
higher sphere. For smile is a divine quality. Next to Happiness, the natural virtue
of a child-consciousness is Freedom. It does not find any barrier anywhere, it
can do anything.</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>These two characteristic virtues of childhood themselves spring from
another fundamental quality of young nature – simplicity, a spontaneous outflow
of energy without any thinking of before or after – none of mind's complexities
and hesitations.</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 this sphere too, we have here for the play of these natural
youthful qualities opportunities and advantages that are not easily available elsewhere.
The atmosphere of freedom that we enjoy is <i>incomparable – Mother </i>herself
told us once.</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>As you grow, you must carry with you these fundamental qualities and
you will remain ever young.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Now, to carry
over – that is the trouble. And that problem Mother has solved for us here.
This is what I was telling you just now – the special privilege that we enjoy
here, granted to<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 99<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>those who are here. Added to the
fundamental natural virtues of youthfulness, we have been given a supplementary
boon, that of consciousness, Mother's own consciousness. It is this additional
element that has given a special turn and temper in the atmosphere here and has
brought about a change not only in the degree but in the kind of the ordinary
youthful qualities. I am speaking of your soul-consciousness. I say you may not
know it or recognise it by your mind and intellect, but it is there. And I say
also, you will never lose it, whatever happens to your outer life. That will lead
you ultimately to the Supreme Realisation, Immortal Life on Earth. It may be
clouded for the outer mind, but it is always there behind.</span></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>Exactly so, I come back to the point from where I started. The
mottoes – the writings displayed on the wall – are also to be displayed as
living entities in your being – in your consciousness, and in your life, even
in your body. That is the better part of your work – indeed, the essential
part.</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>Today a new consciousness is abroad. The earth-atmosphere is filled
with the new spirit. But here the Mother has left with us not merely her
consciousness but a conscious being – a part of her living personality in <span
class=GramE>us, that</span> is the divine legacy we enjoy. We must not simply
be proud of it but try to prove ourselves worthy of it. The Divine Personality
will grow everywhere but the path-finders, forerunners are among 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>Naturally there will be formations of the new life in all climes and
countries, but the patterns, the norms will have been set by you for the Mother
was here in her physical material body.</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>So the Mantras you declare as divine words, you must make them
living powers, gods themselves embodied in you. The basis is here: the Mother
has laid the foundations here for her creation – the roots from where the
shoots and branches are to emerge and spread out abroad and everywhere. In any
case, here or elsewhere, as the Mother has announced in her own voice:</span></p>

<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in'>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:1.0in;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Built is the golden tower, the flame-child born.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:medium none;
mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page –
100<o:p></o:p></span></p>

</div>

</div>

<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href="-00_-Content"><img src="_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif" width="68" height="18" border="0"></a></span></p>
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>
</body>

</html>
