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The only thing that is truly effective is the possibility of transferring to others the state of
consciousness in which one lives oneself. But this power cannot be invented. One cannot
imitate it, cannot seem to have it; it only comes spontaneously when one is established
in that state oneself, when one lives within it and not when one is trying to live within
it — when one is there. And that is why all those who truly have a spiritual life cannot be
deceived.

An imitation of spiritual life may delude people who still live in the mind, but those who
have realised this reversal of consciousness in themselves, whose relation with the outer
being is completely different, cannot be deceived and cannot make a mistake.

It is these people the mental being does not understand. So long as one is in the mental
consciousness, even the highest, and sees the spiritual life from outside, one judges with
one’s mental faculties, with the habit of seeking, erring, correcting, progressing, and
seeking once again; and one thinks that those who are in the spiritual life suffer from the
same incapacity, but that is a very gross mistake!

When the reversal of the being has taken place, all that is finished. One no longer seeks,
one sees. One no longer deduces, one knows. One no longer gropes, one walks straight to
the goal. And when one has gone farther — only a little farther — one knows, feels, lives
the supreme truth that the Supreme Truth alone acts, the Supreme Lord alone wills, knows
and does through human beings. How could there be any possibility of error there? What
He does, He does because He wills to do it.

— The Mother*

*The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 9. Cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 1977, pp. 414-6.

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