Page 9 - All India Magazine Jan-2026

The Divine Smile

You should certainly throw away the vital demand and the
disturbance which it creates in your sadhana. Mother gives
her smile to all and she does not withhold it from some and
give it to others. When people think otherwise, it is because
some vital disturbance, depression or demand or some move-
ment of jealousy, envy or competition distorts their vision.
CWSA 32: 537 Sri Aurobindo

You know, when I say, "The Lord is smiling," it means some-
thing; it's not that I see a face smiling, but it's a... a sunny
vibration... You know, the sun is dull and drab and cold and
almost black in comparison. And then with "that" gone...
(same alternating gesture) with that here, with that gone.
Which means that those who will come and manifest, who
will exist when everything is changed, they will lack the sense
of wonder at the opposition.
You know, you can only be filled with wonder! (How can
I put it?...) A sort of laughter—of sunny laughter—which is
full of an intensity of love and... Yes, this must be the Anan-
da, the true Ananda. (Same alternating gesture) Like this, like
that, like this, like that...
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When things grate
I told you just now that "everything grates": that's the
state the world is in WITHOUT the consciousness of this
Presence. Even when people find that things are fine and
they are happy, that anyway circumstances are supposedly
favorable, and that everything is fine and they are in good
health and, humanly, everything sorts itself out—it grates

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