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Contradictory Impressions of the mind

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Bhavani Bharati – Verse 96
06/02/2019
Bhavani Bharati – Verse 97
06/03/2019
Published by The Mother on 06/03/2019
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  • Words of The Mother Vol. III
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  • confidence
  • contradictory impressions
  • faith
  • inner cure
  • material consciousness
  • Matter
  • melancholy
  • soul
  • spirit
  • unhappy

These contradictory impressions are quite natural. The material consciousness naturally rejoices when circumstances combine to satisfy what it considers to be its need; in any case, they will help it to recover its balance and confidence in life. The soul witnesses yet another victory of Matter over spirit (for every illness that resists the inner cure is for the spirit a defeat, which may only be short-lived but which is nonetheless a defeat). The soul can neither be troubled nor unhappy, for it has faith in its own eternity and is aware of it; but it may sometimes feel a certain melancholy.

Ref: Words of The Mother – III

 

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