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Namah The true Delight of being

mixed with things, so it is more difficult to contact the Delight there. But even in animals
one feels it; it is already a little more difficult than in plants. But in plants, in flowers, it is
so wonderful! They speak all their joy, they express it. And as I said, in all familiar objects,
the things around you, which you use, there is a state of consciousness in which each one is
happy to be, just as it is. So at that moment one knows one has touched true Delight. And
it is not conditioned. I mean it does not depend upon... it depends on nothing. It does not
depend on outer circumstances, does not depend on a more or less favourable state, it does
not depend on anything: it is a communion with the raison d’être of the universe.

And when this comes it fills all the cells of the body. It is not even a thing which is thought
out — one does not reason, does not analyse, it is not that: it is a state in which one lives.
And when the body shares in it, it is so fresh — so fresh, so spontaneous, so... it no longer
turns back upon itself, there is no longer any sense of self-observation, of self-analysis or
of analysing things. All that is like a canticle of joyous vibrations, but very, very quiet,
without violence, without passion, nothing of all that. It is very subtle and very intense
at the same time, and when it comes, it seems that the whole universe is a marvellous
harmony. Even what is to the ordinary human consciousness ugly, unpleasant, appears
marvellous.

Unfortunately, as I said, people, circumstances, all that, with all those mental and vital
formations — that disturbs it all the time. Then one is obliged to return to this ignorant,
blind perception of things. But otherwise, as soon as all this stops and one can get out of
it... everything changes. As he says there, at the end: everything changes. A marvellous
harmony. And it is all Delight, true Delight, real Delight.

This demands a little work.

And this discipline I spoke about, which one must undergo, if it is practised with the aim
of finding Delight, the result is delayed, for an egoistic element is introduced into it, it is
done with an aim and is no longer an offering, it is a demand, and then.... It comes, it will
come, even if it takes much longer — when one asks nothing, expects nothing, hopes for
nothing, when it is simply that, it is self-giving and aspiration, and the spontaneous need
without any bargaining — the need to be divine, that’s all.

— The Mother *

* The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 9. Cent. ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 1957, pp. 20-3.

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