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more or less dark and foreign elements, who may come with
goodwill, possibly, but who come with an almost total igno-
rance and throw it all out in the atmosphere; and so, natural-
ly, if one is the least bit open to what is happening, one feels
crushed under the weight of this increased ignorance.
I don't mean that there is no ignorance here! But still, the
dose is different. Here, for all that, there is a sort of manipula-
tion of the consciousness going on constantly, night and day,
visibly, invisibly; and whether one wants it or not, in spite of
everything one takes it in, and after some time it acts.
When a few people come, something changes, but it is not
so much as to give a painful feeling; but when it is a rush like
this, dashing in all at once, then the whole level comes down im-
mediately, and unless one is able to withdraw into oneself and
keep one's head above these submerging waters, this swamp-
ing flood of ignorance, if one can't raise one's head above it,
well, one feels very uneasy.
CWM 8: 261

Receptivity on special days
I think it is the same thing that happens to people who are
more receptive on their birthdays or who need to remember an
event to awaken their receptivity.
In the days when Sri Aurobindo used to give Darshan, before
he gave it there was always a concentration of certain forces or
of a certain realisation which he wanted to give to people. And
so each Darshan marked a stage forward; each time something
was added. But that was at a time when the number of visitors
was very limited. It was organised in another way, and it was
part of the necessary preparation.
But this special concentration, now, occurs at other times,
not particularly on Darshan days. And it occurs much more of-

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