Chapter 105September 19, 1958

Something the modern world has completely lost is the sense of the sacred.

‘Ever since my childhood, I have spent my time veiling myself’: one veil over another veil over another veil, so as to remain invisible. Because to see me without the true attitude is the arch-sin. Anyway, ‘sin’ in the sense Sri Aurobindo defines it – meaning that things are no longer in their place.

(Mother speaks of an experience She had during, the Wednesday class at the playground:)

It was so strong, so strong that it was really inexpressible. The negative expel fence of no longer being an individual, or in other words, the dissolution of the ego, took place a long time ago and still takes place quite often: the ego completely vanishes. But this was a positive experience of being ... not just the universe in its totality, but something else – ineffable, yet concrete, absolutely concrete! Unutterable86 – and yet utterly concrete: the divine Person beyond the Impersonal.

The experience lasted for only a few minutes. And I knew, then, that all our words ... all our words are empty. But circumstances were such that I had to speak ...

Do all our vibrations reach you or must they have a special intensity?