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Buddha in his teaching: there is an infinitely greater delight in conquering and eliminating
a desire than in satisfying it. Every sincere and steadfast seeker will realise after some
time, sooner or later, at times very soon, that this is an absolute truth, and that the delight
felt in overcoming a desire is incomparably higher than the small pleasure, so fleeting and
mixed, which may be found in the satisfaction of his desires. That is the second step.

Naturally, with this continuous discipline, in a very short time the desires will keep their
distance and will no longer bother you. So you will be free to enter a little more deeply
into your being and open yourself in an aspiration to... the Giver of Delight, the divine
Element, the divine Grace. And if this is done with a sincere self-giving — something that
gives itself, offers itself and expects nothing in exchange for its offering — one will feel
that kind of sweet warmth, comfortable, intimate, radiant, which fills the heart and is the
herald of Delight.

After this, the path is easy.

Sweet Mother, what is the true Delight of being?

That very one of which I am speaking!

Then, Sweet Mother, here when Sri Aurobindo speaks of an existence “that multiplied itself for sheer
delight of being”, what is this delight?

The delight of existing.

There comes a time when one begins to be almost ready, when one can feel in everything,
every object, in every movement, in every vibration, in all the things around — not only
people and conscious beings, but things, objects; not only trees and plants and living
things, but simply any object one uses, the things around one — this delight, this delight
of being, of being just as one is, simply being. And one sees that all this vibrates like that.
One touches a thing and feels this delight. But naturally, I say, one must have followed
the discipline I spoke about at the beginning; otherwise, so long as one has a desire, a
preference, an attachment or affinities and repulsions and all that, one cannot — one
cannot.

And so long as one finds pleasures — pleasure, well, yes, vital or physical pleasure in
a thing — one cannot feel this delight. For this delight is everywhere. This delight is
something very subtle. One moves in the midst of things and it is as though they were
all singing to you their delight. There comes a time when it becomes very familiar in the
life around you. Of course, I must admit that it is a little more difficult to feel it in human
beings, because there are all their mental and vital formations which come into the field
of perception and disturb it. There is too much of this kind of egoistic asperity which gets

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