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ten, on other kinds of occasions, in other circumstances. The
movement is much accelerated, the march forward, the stag-
es succeed each other much more rapidly. And perhaps it is
more difficult to follow; or in any case, if one doesn't take care
to keep up, one is much more quickly out-distanced than be-
fore; one gets the feeling of being late or of being abandoned.
Things change quickly.
And I ought to say that these Darshan times with all this
rush of people serve not so much for an inner progress — that
is to say, inside the Ashram — as for a diffusion outside. The
use we make of these days is a little different; above all, it is to
go farther, have a vaster field, reach more distant points. But
the concentration is less and there is this inconvenience of a
large crowd, which was always there but which has been much
greater during these last years than at the beginning. At the
beginning there was not such a crowd; and perhaps the quality
of the crowd was also a little different.
CWM 8: 262-63

Darshan messages
But Mother, what is the significance of the message you give
every Darshan? For example, today you gave the picture of the
flower that symbolises the supramental manifestation. 1

Yes, as I have just told you, this is spread in thousands of
copies all over the world. It is an externalisation of the thing,
it is a way of spreading the influence, spreading the message,
reaching farther. Everything that is said in a Darshan message
has been studied, proved, tested, beforehand. And on Darshan
day it is given. First the experiment is made, then it is declared

1. The haemanthus, which is like a ball composed of hundreds of red and
gold stamens.

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