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Simplicity: A Divine Quality

True spirituality
I get ten-page letters telling me "spiritual experiences" —
which are completely in the vital. They don't understand a thing.
Even in Auroville they're like that, they don't understand.
So I wrote... (Mother tries to recall) what did I write?... I don't
remember. True spirituality... I know I put simplicity. "True spiritual-
ity" in big letters.
I should have put true spirituality is very simple! (Mother laughs)
That's even better.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, March 6, 1971

Divine Omnipotence
Just these last few days (because of all kinds of things —
people, and things that happen), I have been increasingly seeing
that the human concept of divine Omnipotence is the concept of
an omnipotence which would operate without rhyme or reason,
through a succession of whims, any old how — that's what people
call "Omnipotence": being able to do the most stupid things at
will.
Obviously, that doesn't quite conform to a higher Harmony(!)
Yet human beings are like that: if the god they worship or the
divine they want to manifest isn't willing to do, to execute what-
ever comes into their heads in a totally incoherent and arbitrary
way, he isn't all-powerful!
I am magnifying it to make it more easily perceptible; it's not
like that: they deceive themselves (if you tell them that, they pro-
test), but they deceive themselves, and it comes down to what
I've just said.
When you succeed in going into that Consciousness of Har-
mony (but not an individual or local harmony), a Universal Har-

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