Chapter 6June 16, 1971

* * * “As for sadhana, it is not that you have no capacity, but what has happened to many has happened to you – the physical consciousness has risen up and veiled the psychic which was about to come forward. It has risen up with the insistence on the value of its own small ignorant ideas and feelings and refusing to let them go. When the psychic comes forward, all larger and more enlightened movements replace them. But usually before that happens, these things rise up and control the consciousness for a while. This state need not be a permanent condition and if one sees clearly and rejects them consciously, then it can be got over quickly – but even if it lasts a long period, it can in the end be overcome and that is happening to many now. Naturally, the physical consciousness persuades the mind that it is everlasting and cannot be got over; but that is not true.”

Sri Aurobindo That’s good! It seems just the right moment to say it.

(Satprem suggest several extracts from the Agenda for “Notes on the Way,” the first being that of May 22 on the intervention of the Supreme Wisdom: “The possibility of a breathtaking success – not in the

sky: here.”)

That’s quite good. It brings back the atmosphere.... Is it too soon to say it? I don’t know.

Yes, perhaps, I had a little the same feeling also.

Yes, it’s too soon. We should wait.

It’s for the August Bulletin.

Yes, but August is very soon.... I don’t know. We’ll see next month whether we send it out or not, or keep it. At any rate, we will use it one day. It seems... I seem to be going too fast.

Yes, it does seem far-off.