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WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Sweet Mother,

Why isn't it possible to live always on the same height of consciousness? Sometimes I fall despite every effort and aspiration.

Sri Aurobindo speaks of a "period of assimilation". What is it, Mother?

It is because an individual is not made up all of one piece, but of many different entities which are sometimes even contrary to one another: some want the spiritual life, others are attached to the things of this world. To make all these parts agree and to unify them is a long and difficult task. [new p. 251]

The force and the light received by the more developed parts spread gradually into the rest of the being by a process of assimilation, and during this period of assimilation the progress of the more developed parts seems to be interrupted. This is what Sri Aurobindo has spoken of.

29 October 1960

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 16, p. 252