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of experiences. There was also the sort of intuitive discernment
Sri Aurobindo refers to, it had been there since my earliest child-
hood — veiled, mixed, no doubt, but present all the same, it was
there. Afterwards, it was purified, developed, strengthened, the
mixture lessened and the body was somewhat... (laughing) to per-
fect itself it went through quite a great deal of friction of all types.
It's certainly more apt today than it was fifty years ago, there isn't
a shadow of doubt about it! But you understand, there's nothing
to boast about!
I feel very strongly that things are that way because the Earth is
that way.
Yes, quite clearly! Quite clearly.
If there were.... If people aspired, if there were enough people who
wanted that, I feel it would be done almost in a flash.]
Oh, that's absolutely correct, absolutely true. But anyway,
it's a fact. And ultimately, a victory that's conditional [on oth-
ers], well, it's just a way to speed up Nature's movement a little. If
that's what it is, all well and good — but as I said (it's very good, I
make no demands, I don't protest, I am quite peaceful, and, to tell
the truth, the result is all the same to me), there's nothing worth
mentioning, that's what I mean, you can't write stories about
that! (laughing) It's not worth talking about it.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, March 23, 1963

Born with a prepared body
I was born with a consciously prepared body — Sri Aurobindo
was aware of that, he said it immediately the first time he saw me:
I was born free. That is, from the spiritual standpoint: without any
desire. Without any desire and attachment. And, mon petit, if there
is the slightest desire and the slightest attachment, it's impossible
to do this work.
A vital like a warrior, with an absolute self-control (the vital of

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