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Namah Vol. 24, Issue 3, 15th October 2016

the time, you would see, would understand well what I mean.

For example, in a game, when you play, it is like this (gesture) and then it is like the
vibrations of a point, it goes on increasing, increasing and increasing until suddenly,
crash!... an accident. And it is a collective atmosphere like that; we come and see it, you are
in the midst of a game — basketball or football or any other — we feel it, see it, it produces
a kind of smoke around you (those vapours of heat which come at times, something like
that), and then it takes on a vibration like that, like that, more and more, more and more,
more and more until suddenly the equilibrium is broken: someone breaks his leg, falls
down, is hit on the mouth by a ball, etc. And one can foretell beforehand that this is going
to happen when it is like that. But nobody is aware of it.

Yet, even in less serious cases, each one of you individually has around him something
which instead of being this very individual and very calm envelope which protects you
from all that you don’t want to receive... I mean, your receptivity becomes deliberate
and conscious, otherwise you do not receive; and it is only when you have this conscious
extremely calm atmosphere, and as I say, when it comes from within (it is not something
that comes from outside), it is only when it’s like this that you can go with impunity into
life, that is, among others and in all the circumstances of every minute...

Otherwise if there is something bad to be caught, for example, anger, fear, an illness, some
uneasiness, you are sure to catch it. As soon as it starts doing this (gesture) it is as though
you called all similar vibrations to come and get hold of you.

— The Mother *

* The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 7. Cent. Ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 1979, pp. 146-8.

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