Q: Is Nature Blind and Violent?
A: The Mother: But it is not at all that! It is man in his relative proportion with Nature who judges like that. Wait a little, let us take this example. When there is a earthquake, many islands are engulfed and millions of people killed. People say: “This Nature is monstrous.” From the human point of view this Nature is monstrous. What has it done? It has wrought a cataclysm. But just think how in jumping or running or doing something or other, you get a good knock and turn black and blue. It is the same thing for our cells as an earthquake; you destroy a huge number of cells! It is a question of proportion. For us, our little consciousness, ever so little, this appears something formidable but after all it is quite simply a confusion somewhere upon earth (not even in the universe). We are speaking only of the earth. What is it? Nothing at all, just a universe, then the disappearance of the worlds- these are just confusions. It is nothing.
(All India Magazine, March 2001, ‘Catastrophes and Accidents, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.)
Q: What is the best way of opening ourselves to the profound influence of flower?
A: The Mother: To love them. If you can enter into psychic contact with them, that is perfect. Blessings.
(‘Growing up with The Mother’ by Tara Jauhar)
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