{"id":3363,"date":"2020-07-21T13:27:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/the-mother-questions-and-answers-1954\/"},"modified":"2020-07-26T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T16:18:55","slug":"the-mother-questions-and-answers-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/the-mother-questions-and-answers-1954\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MOTHER Questions and Answers 1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #0000ff;\"><em>How can we establish a settled peace and silense in the mind?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">First of all, you must want it.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">And then you must try and must persevere, keep on trying &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; You sit quietly<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">, to begin with; and then, instead of thinking of fifty things,\u00a0 you begin saying to yourself, &#8220;Peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, calm, peace !&#8221; You imagine peace and calm. You aspire, ask that it may come : &#8220;Peace, peace, calm.&#8221; And then, when something comes and touches you and acts, say quietly, like this, &#8220;Peace, peace, peace.&#8221; Do not look at the thoughts, do not listen to the thoughts, you understand. You must not pay attention to everything that comes &#8230;&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">THE MOTHER &#8211; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1954<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 10pt;\">COLLECTED WORKS OF THE MOTHER &#8211; Volume 6 &#8211; 8 September 1954 &#8211; Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department &#8211; Pondicherry &#8211; India<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1126 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Piane-di-Castelluccio-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Piane-di-Castelluccio-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Piane-di-Castelluccio-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Piane-di-Castelluccio-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Piane-di-Castelluccio-567x378.jpg 567w, https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Piane-di-Castelluccio-1140x760.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Piane-di-Castelluccio.jpg 1263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we establish a settled peace and silense in the mind? &nbsp; First of all, you must want it. And then you must try and must persevere, keep on trying &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; You sit quietly, to begin with; and then, instead of thinking of fifty things,\u00a0 you begin saying to yourself, &#8220;Peace, peace,[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saggezzawisdom.org\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}