Always there are revolts, insults, all those things. So the question is: Is there any place for “self-respect”, for amour-propre in the sadhana? The straight answer is: “No”. Yet, in the present state, there cannot be the effort without the ego-sense. Ego is the helper. However, things have to be understood; even the physical must understand them. It has to be a sort of offering of the being, which gives itself in order to learn. The Mother was speaking of the cells. She even said that it is very interesting, that it is the experience of the body. “It is very interesting, because the ego has become for me a kind of impersonal entity, while for everybody else it is the acute sense of his personality!” Impersonality of ego—how wonderful! What must happen is, one must learn how to be the perfect unity. And one must always laugh, always. “The Lord laughs, and He laughs, and His laugh is so nice, so nice, so full of love. It is a laugh that envelops you with an extraordinary sweetness.” Indeed, it is the Anandamaya Purusha, the Being of Bliss who is radiating his rapturous sweetness everywhere—deep and calm in its power of creation-expression-manifestation.

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