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\n22
\n November 1967<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n


\n\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

There is a progress. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the physical demonstration on the 2nd of December,\u00b9
\nall the children in a chorus are going to pray, and I have written the prayer
\nfor them. I am going to read it to you. But I had not thought of it; I was
\nasked and I did it. <\/span><\/p>\n

Probably they read the Bulletin<\/i>
\nand so they asked for a prayer \u2013 a prayer that is truly of the body. And I
\nanswered: <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

               The prayer of the cells
\nof the body <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Now that, by the effect
\nof the Grace, we are slowly emerging out of inconscience and waking to a
\nconscious life, an ardent prayer rises in us for more light, more consciousness,
\n\u201cO Supreme Lord of the universe, we implore Thee, give us the strength and the
\nbeauty, the harmonious perfection needed to be Thy divine instruments upon
\nearth.” <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

It is almost a proclamation. <\/span><\/p>\n

After the demonstration they are going to say it. It appears they
\nare going to show the whole historical growth of physical culture and then at
\nthe end they will say: we have not come to the end, we are at the beginning of
\nsomething and here is our prayer. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was very glad.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

You say there is a
\nprogress?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u00b9
\nEvery year on this date, the children of the School and the Ashram sadhaks who
\ntake part in sports give a general demonstration of physical culture.<\/font><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 91<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

A progress!
\nA tremendous progress! They had never thought, never; there in the totality
\nthey had never thought of achieving the transformation: they were thinking of
\nbecoming the best athletes in the world and all the usual nonsense. <\/span><\/p>\n

The body, you see, they asked for a prayer of the body. They have
\ncome to understand that the body must begin to transform itself into something
\nelse. Before this, they were quite full of the whole history of physical
\nculture in all the countries, and the country where it is most advanced and how
\nto use the body as it is, etc. Well, it was the ideal of the Olympics. Now they
\nhave jumped beyond; that was the past, now they want transformation. <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, people in their mind and their vital asked to become divine;
\nwell, it is all the old story of spirituality, reiterated for centuries. No,
\nnow it is the body. It is the body that wants to participate. It is altogether
\na progress. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, but one can see
\nvery well how in the mind the aspiration maintains itself, how it lives by
\nitself. In the heart also, one sees very well how the aspiration lives. But in
\nthe body? How to awaken this aspiration in the body<\/span><\/i>? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But it is
\nalready fully awake for months in me! So it must be they have just now felt it
\nand they feel it. <\/span><\/p>\n

How is it done? \u2013 it is in the process of being done. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But how in oneself … <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

No, no, no. If
\nit has been done in one single body, it can be done in all bodies. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, but I ask how…
\nyes, how? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Well, that
\nis what I have been trying to explain for months. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 92<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

First of
\nall, to awaken the consciousness in the cells… <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Well, yes! <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Yes, of
\ncourse, but once it is done, it is done: the consciousness wakes up more and
\nmore, the cells live consciously, aspire consciously. I have been trying to
\nexplain it for months; for months and months I have been trying to explain it.
\nAnd so it is just that which has pleased me, that they have understood at least
\nthe possibility. <\/span><\/p>\n

The same consciousness which was the monopoly of the vital and the
\nmind has become that of the body: the consciousness is working in the cells of
\nthe body. <\/span><\/p>\n

The cells of the body are becoming something conscious, wholly
\nconscious. <\/span><\/p>\n

A consciousness that is independent, not depending at all upon the
\nvital or the mental consciousness: it is a bodily consciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(Silence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

And this physical mind of which Sri Aurobindo said that it was an
\nimpossibility, that it was something that turns round and round and will always
\nturn round and round, precisely without consciousness, like a kind of machine,
\nthat mind has been converted, has become silent, and in the silence it has received
\nthe inspiration of the Consciousness. And it has begun again to pray: the same
\nprayers that were there before in the mind. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

I quite understand what
\ncan happen in you, but.<\/span><\/i>.. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But since it
\nis happening in one body, it can happen in all bodies! I am not made of
\nsomething different from the others. The difference is in consciousness, that
\nis all. It is made exactly of the same thing, with the same things, I eat the
\nsame things,
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 93<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

and it was
\nmade in the same way, absolutely. <\/span><\/p>\n

And it was as stupid, as obscure, as unconscious, as obstinate as
\nall the bodies of the world. <\/span><\/p>\n

And this began when the doctors declared that I was very ill,\u00b9
\nthat was the beginning. Because the entire body was emptied of its habits and
\nits forces, and then slowly, slowly, slowly the cells woke up to a new
\nreceptivity and opened themselves to the Divine Influence directly. <\/span><\/p>\n

Otherwise there would be no hope. If this matter that started by
\nbeing… Even a pebble is already an organisation \u2013 certainly it was worse than
\na pebble: unconscious, inert, absolute; and then, little by little, little by
\nlittle that woke up. It sees, yes, it sees, it has only to open its eyes to
\nsee. Well, it is the same thing which happens: for the animal to become a man
\nit did not require anything other than the infusion of a consciousness, a
\nmental consciousness; and now it is the awakening of this consciousness which
\nwas altogether at the bottom, the very bottom. The mind is withdrawn, the vital
\nis withdrawn, all is withdrawn. At the time when I was said to be ill, the mind
\nwas gone, the vital was gone, the body was left to itself purposely. Yes, it is
\nthat, it is just because the vital and the mental were gone that it gave the
\nimpression of a very serious illness. And then, in the body left to itself,
\nlittle by little the cells began to wake up to the consciousness (gesture of aspiration rising up<\/i>); this
\nconsciousness that was infused into the body by the vital (from the mental into
\nthe vital, from the vital into the body), when both had disappeared, the
\nconsciousness emerged slowly, slowly. That started with a burst of the Love
\nfrom the highest summit, the last supreme altitude, and then little by little,
\nlittle by little, it came down into the body. And then this physical mind, that
\nis to say, something altogether, altogether stupid, which used to turn round
\nand round, repeating always the same thing, a hundred times the same thing,
\nlittle by little it was illumined, became conscious, was organised, and then it
\nentered into the <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\u00b9 <\/font> <\/span>During the spring of 1962.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 94<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

silence;
\nthen in the silence the aspiration expressed itself in prayers.  <\/span><\/p>\n

(Silence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

It is the contradiction of all the spiritual assertions of the
\npast: \u201cIf you want to live fully conscious of the divine life, give up your body
\n\u2013 the body cannot follow”; well, Sri Aurobindo came and said: the body, not
\nonly can it follow, it can even be the base for manifesting the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

The work remains to be done. <\/span><\/p>\n

But now a certitude is there. The result remains still far off,
\nvery far; much has to be done before the crust, the experience of the most
\nexternal surface as it is, manifests what is happening within (not \u201cwithin” in
\nthe spiritual depths: within the body). To enable that to manifest what is
\nwithin… This will come last, and it is good it is so, for if it came before
\ntime, one would neglect the work, one would be so satisfied as to forget to
\nfinish his work; everything should be done within, should be well and good,
\nshould be thoroughly changed, then the outside will speak it out. <\/span><\/p>\n

But it is all one single substance, all similar everywhere, and
\neverywhere it was unconscious; and then what is remarkable is that automatically<\/i> things are happening (gesture showing points scattered everywhere
\nin the world<\/i>) altogether unexpected, here and there, in people who do not
\neven know anything. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(Silence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The material cells have to obtain the capacity to receive and to
\nmanifest consciousness. And then what makes for a radical transformation is that
\nin place of, so to say, an eternal and indefinite ascent, there is the
\nappearance of a new type \u2013 it is a descent from above. The previous descent was
\na mental descent, and this one, Sri Aurobindo calls it a supramental descent;
\nthe impression is that of a descent of the supreme Consciousness
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 95<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

which
\ninfuses itself into something that is capable of receiving it and manifesting
\nit. And then, out of this, when it has been thoroughly churned (how long it
\nwill take, one does not know), a new form will take birth, which will be what
\nSri Aurobindo called the supramental form \u2013 which will be… it does not matter
\nwhat, I do not know what these beings will be called. <\/span><\/p>\n

How will they express themselves, how will they make themselves
\nunderstood, and all that?… In man, it has developed very slowly. Only the
\nmind has laboured<\/span> much and basically has made things
\nmove quicker. <\/span><\/p>\n

How is one going to reach there?… There will surely be stages in
\nthe manifestation, with perhaps a specimen that will come and say: this is how
\nit is. (Mother looks in front<\/i>) One
\nsees that. <\/span><\/p>\n

Only, when man came out of the animal, there was no means of
\nrecording \u2013 of noting down and keeping an account of the process \u2013 now it is
\nquite different, so it will be more interesting. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(Silence<\/i>) <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But still at the present moment, the vast majority \u2013 the vast
\nmajority \u2013 of the intellectual humanity is perfectly satisfied with being busy
\nwith itself and its bits of progress like this (Mother draws a microscopic circle<\/i>). It has not even not even the
\ndesire to be anything else. <\/span><\/p>\n

This means that the coming of the superhuman being… it may very
\nwell pass unperceived or not be understood. One cannot say, for there is no
\nanalogy; evidently if a monkey, one of the big monkeys, had met the first man,
\nhe would simply have felt that it was a being a little… queer, that’s all.
\nBut now it is different, because man thinks, reasons. <\/span><\/p>\n

But with regard to all that is superior to man, man has been
\naccustomed to think that these were beings… divine beings, that is to say,
\nthey had no body, they appeared in the light \u2013 in<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 96<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>short, all the gods as they have been
\nconceived \u2013 but it is not at all like that. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(Long silence<\/i>) <\/span><\/p>\n

Then? <\/span><\/p>\n

You are not convinced? <\/span><\/p>\n

Why don’t you try? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Of course! That is why I
\nput the question to you. I am not doubting anything whatsoever. I put the
\nquestion to you, I asked you: \u201cHow is one to do it, I do not know how it is
\ndone.”… For example, in the morning I shave myself; well, in the morning one
\nis stupid, one is tired, the mind refuses to work, the vital refuses to work…
\n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Yes, it is
\nan excellent occasion. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Certainly, it is just
\nwhat I do, and I say: well, no, I do not see. I do not know how to make it
\nmove\u00a0 <\/span>it does not move. It does not move
\nunless I put my mind or vital or heart to it<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Bah !  <\/span><\/p>\n

It is not that I am
\ndoubting. I say that my body is an ass, quite possibly, but I do not doubt<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

It is not an
\nass, poor fellow! (Mother laughs<\/i>.) <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Doubts I do not have,
\nbut the question about the \u201chow”, that, yes, I do not know. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

For me that
\nproblem never arose, because… When one plays <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 97<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

music or
\ndoes painting, one sees very well that the consciousness enters into the cells
\nand these cells become conscious. This experience, for example: there are
\nthings in a box and one says to the hand: \u201cTake twelve”; (without counting,
\nlike that) the hand picks up the twelve and gives them to you. That is an
\nexperience that I had long, long ago. At the age of twenty I started having
\nexperiences like that, therefore I know. I knew how the consciousness works.
\nWell, it is impossible to learn piano or to do painting unless the
\nconsciousness enters into the hands and the hands become conscious independently<\/i> of the head. The head can
\nbe busy elsewhere, that has no importance. Besides, this is exactly what
\nhappens in the case of people called somnambulists: they have a consciousness
\nbelonging to the body that makes them move and do things quite independent of
\nthe mind and the vital. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

I mean to say that when
\nI am before the mirror for shaving, if I do not put within me the mantra or an
\naspiration coming from the heart, well, it is an inert block that is shaving,
\nand add to that the physical mind whirling. But if I put a mantra or a mental
\nwill… <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But no! It
\nis the body<\/i> that ends by saying the
\nmantra! Spontaneously, so spontaneously that even if you by chance think of
\nother things, your body will be saying the mantra. You do not have this
\nexperience?  <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

No<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And it is
\nthe body that aspires, the body that says the mantra, the body that wants the
\nlight, the body that wants the consciousness \u2013 you, you can think of other
\nthings, Tom, Dick or Harry, a book, etc., it has no importance. <\/span><\/p>\n

But now I understand very well, very well; in the beginning <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 98<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

I did not
\nunderstand, I believed that I was made \u201cill” so that I would stop the life
\nthat I was leading when I was downstairs\u00b9 \u2013 but I lead a life still more busy
\nthan the life downstairs, therefore… I asked myself why, whether it was a
\nperiod of transition. But now I understand: cut off, I fainted in a swoon. That
\nis why the doctor declared that I was ill: I could not move a step without
\nfainting; I wanted to walk from here to there: on the way, pouf! I fainted.
\nSomeone had to hold me so that the body would not fall down. But as for me, I
\ndid not lose consciousness for a single minute. I fainted, but I was conscious,
\nI saw my body, I knew that I had fainted, I did not lose consciousness, and the
\nbody also did not lose consciousness. So now I understand: it was cut off from
\nthe vital and the mental and left to its own resources; it was simply the body:
\nall that it knew, all the experiences it had had, all the mastery that was
\nthere in all the states of being, the vital, the mental and above, all that
\ngone! and this poor body left to itself. And then naturally, little by little,
\nall that was rebuilt, rebuilt, a conscious, purely conscious being. <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I understand, I understand. But truly it was cut off, that I
\nhave known \u2013 I have seen \u2013 cut off, the states of being sent away: \u201cGo away,
\nyou are no longer wanted.” And then a new life needed to be built up. And
\ninstead of the necessity of passing through all the states of being as was done
\nbefore, by successive awakenings (gesture
\nof ascent step by step as done by the old yogis<\/i>) up to the highest, the
\nvery highest, beyond form \u2013 now it is not at all like that, it needed nothing
\nat all of all that, it has simply to… (gesture
\nof aspiration that rises and opens like a flower<\/i>). Something has opened and
\ndeveloped within, and that is why this stupid mind has been organised, has been
\ncapable of being silent in an aspiration; and then… then it was the direct
\ncontact, without any intermediary \u2013 direct contact. And that it has now, all
\nthe while. All the while, all the while, the direct contact. And it is the body<\/i>, it is not<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u00b9
\nSince this \u201cillness” in 1962, Mother retired to her apartments upstairs.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 99<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

through all
\nkinds of things and states of being, not at all, it is direct.<\/span><\/p>\n

But once it is done (Sri Aurobindo has said this), once one<\/i> body has done it, it has the
\ncapacity to pass it on to others: and I tell you, now \u2013 I do not say in the
\nwhole and in detail, probably not, but here and there (gesture of scattering, indicating various points upon earth<\/i>) \u2013 all
\nof a sudden one or another experience occurs in people. There are people (the
\nmajority) who are afraid; then naturally it goes away \u2013 it is because they were
\nnot sufficiently prepared within; if it is not the petty routine of every minute,
\nof day to day, they have fear; and once they have fear, it is finished, it
\nmeans that years of preparation will be needed for this to happen again. But
\nthere are some who are not afraid; an experience, all of a sudden! \u201cAh!…\u201d
\nSomething altogether new, altogether unexpected, of which they never thought. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is contagious, this I know. And it is the only hope, because if
\neveryone had to go again through the same experience… Well, now I am ninety \u2013
\nat ninety people are tired, they have had enough of life. To do that one must
\nfeel young like a little child. <\/span><\/p>\n

And it takes long, I see quite well that it has taken a long time.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

And then, it is not done, it is being done, but it is not done \u2013
\nfar from it \u2013 we are far from it…. What is the percentage of conscious cells?
\nOne does not know. <\/span><\/p>\n

And from time to time there are some that scold the others. It is
\nvery amusing! They scold, they catch hold of them, tell them stupidities (in
\ntheir way) \u2013 to those that want (Mother
\ndraws a small circle<\/i>) to continue the old habits: digestion must be done in
\na certain way, absorption in a certain way, circulation in a certain way,
\nrespiration in a certain way… all the functions must be done according to the
\nmethod of Nature; and when it is not like that, they become anxious. And then
\nthose that know, catch hold of them and put them under heavy bombardment <\/span>in the name
\nof the Lord. It is very amusing! <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 100<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Something is translated in
\nwords (it is without words, but there something is translated in words) and
\nthen there are conversations among the cells (Mother laughs<\/i>): \u201cImbecile that you are! Why do you have fear? Don’t
\nyou see it is the Lord himself who is doing this to transform you?” And the
\nother: \u201cAh!…\u201d Then it remains quiet, and then opens itself and waits, and
\nthen… the pain goes away, the disorder goes away, and everything is put in
\norder. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is wonderful. <\/span><\/p>\n

But if by mischance the mind comes in, starts to help or judge,
\nthen the whole thing stops, and all fall back into the old habit. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(Long silence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

In reality, it is the ego, vital, mental, etc., all that has been,
\npouf! taken away. <\/span><\/p>\n

It was a radical operation. <\/span><\/p>\n

And so now, there is a kind of suppleness, plasticity. And all
\nthis is learning \u2013 it is very much in relation with the whole (horizontal gesture<\/i>), but it is learning
\nto look for all its support, all its force, all its knowledge, all its light,
\nall its will, all, all, like that (vertical
\ngesture, turned to the Supreme<\/i>), solely like that, in an extraordinary
\nplasticity. <\/span><\/p>\n

And then, the splendour<\/span> of the Presence.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 101<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n


\n
\n29
\n November 1967<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n


\n <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

I have some new photos, taken on the Darshan<\/span>
\nday. Photographs taken by a telescopic camera. They are not enlarged, they are
\nas they were taken. (Mother shows the photos to the disciple.)<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not know, but at each Darshan<\/span> I
\nhave the feeling that I am a different person, and when I see myself in this
\nway, objectively, indeed I see a different person every time. Sometimes an old
\nChinese! Sometimes a kind of transposition of Sri Aurobindo, a veiled Sri
\nAurobindo, and then sometimes a person whom I know very well, but who is not
\nthis one: once I was like that. This has happened to me many times. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But here also, I have
\nthe feeling that it is someone… it is altogether different from what you
\nusually are<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Isn’t it so!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

And I have the feeling
\nthat it is something I know. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes. And I
\ntoo have the same feeling exactly. I look at it and I say: I know this person
\nvery well \u2013 but it has nothing to do with this body. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But it is something that
\nI know! <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Indeed, it
\nis very well known, but it is not this (Mother points to her body); it is not
\nhere, but it is very well known. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

I do not know why, it
\nreminds me of a painter. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

One does not
\nknow for certain if it is a man or a woman, one is not sure. <\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 102<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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I asked myself if it was not a being that lived in a world other
\nthan the physical world of earth. Because it is… I know, but not with the
\nintimacy of bodily sensation; yes, it is someone whom I know very well, whom I
\nhave often seen. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

I have the impression
\nthat it is someone I have already seen. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Oh, yes! But
\nI do not know if you have seen him in this world. (Turning to the other
\ndisciple) You do not know that person? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

It is not the same
\nMother! <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes….
\nPerhaps it is a picture. You are perhaps right. But which one, I do not see. <\/span><\/p>\n

Someone who is very familiar to me, but… if I were told that it
\nwas a historical person, I would not be surprised. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is strange. And it becomes more and more so. As the body
\ncatches the inner rhythm, this increases. <\/span><\/p>\n

It cannot be a physical being.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is it? We will know one day…. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

It is very familiar. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Yes, but my
\nimpression is like this: someone I have known very intimately, with whom I have
\nlived perhaps, but not me, you understand. That is to say, the body says: \u201cIt
\nis not me.” Inside, it is quite different: there is no \u201cI-you”, all that does
\nnot exist; but the body, it has still got that, it says: \u201cThis is not me, it is
\nsomeone whom I know very well, very well, but it is not me.”<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Why does it happen like
\nthat at the balcony?<\/span><\/i> \u00b9<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\u00b9 <\/font> <\/span>Mother gave Darshan<\/span> by standing on her
\nbalcony before those who gathered on the street below.<\/font><\/span> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage -103<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

It can be
\ntwo things. Perhaps the original consciousness divided into two in a past life
\n(this has happened several times) and was manifested in two different bodies at
\nthe same time; and so there has naturally been an intimacy, probably even an
\nintermixing of life \u2013 this may be a physical occurrence. But it may also be
\nsomeone existing in a permanent way, in a permanent form somewhere with whom we
\nare in constant contact in that world (overmental or supramental or other) and
\nthe feeling within is: yes, I know. It may be either of the two things, I do
\nnot know yet which one. <\/span><\/p>\n

(After a silence<\/i>) It is more
\nan expression, a type of vibration, an atmosphere, more than exact features.
\nYes, it would be rather that, someone who exists in a permanent way somewhere
\nand with whom we are in contact.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that would explain this sensation of not knowing whether it is
\na man or a woman: it must be a being in an asexual world, where there is
\nneither man nor woman. <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

(Silence<\/i>) <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The body by itself has more than a feeling, a kind of… it is a
\nknowledge \u2013 more than a knowledge, it is a fact: there are many, many beings,
\nforces, personalities who manifest themselves through it, even sometimes
\nseveral at the same time. That is a very common experience; we know, for
\nexample, that Sri Aurobindo is there, he speaks and sees, he has his own way of
\nseeing and expressing himself, that happens very often. And then often it is
\nDurga or Mahakali or… very often. Often, it is a being from very high up,
\nvery permanent \u2013 very permanent \u2013 who manifests himself, and then there occurs
\na kind of absolute in the being. Sometimes it is beings from a plane nearby who
\ntry to make themselves felt, express themselves, but that is under control. <\/span><\/p>\n

The body is used to that. <\/span><\/p>\n

And what was strange is that this time, the 24th, when I<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 104<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

went to the
\nbalcony, it was someone… (and this happens to me from time to time, but more
\nand more often) someone who looks from a sort of plane of eternity with a great
\nbenevolence mixed in (something like benevolence, I do not know how to express
\nit), but with an absolute calmness, almost indifference, and the two are
\ntogether, looking like that (Mother describes waves far down below), as if it
\nwas seen from very far away, from very high up, from very\u2026how to say it? seen
\nwith a rather eternal vision. It was that which my body was feeling when I came
\nout to the balcony. The body was saying: \u201cI must aspire, there must be an
\naspiration so that the Force may descend upon all these people”, and That, it
\nwas like this (sweeping gesture from above). Oh! Very benevolent but a sort of
\nindifference \u2013 the indifference of eternity, I do not know how to explain it.
\nAnd all this the body feels as though something were making use of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is why these photographs interest me, it is to have the state
\nobjectified. <\/span><\/p>\n

We shall know.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 105<\/span>  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\n
\n30
\n December 1967<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Mother made the following comment while
\nspeaking on the subject of government. <\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The problem finally reduces itself almost to this: to replace the
\nmental government of intelligence by the government of a spiritualised
\nconsciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is a very interesting experience: how the same actions, the
\nsame work, the same observations, the same relations with the environment (near
\nand far) take place in the mind through intelligence, and in the consciousness
\nthrough experience. And this is what the body is now learning, to replace the
\nmental regime of intelligence by the spiritual government of consciousness. And
\nthis does bring about (it looks like nothing, you may not notice it), but it
\ndoes bring about a tremendous difference, so much so that it increases a hundredfold
\nthe possibilities of the body…. When the body is subject to rules, even if
\nthey are broad, even if they are comprehensive, it is the slave of these rules,
\nand its possibilities are limited by these rules. But when it is governed by
\nthe Spirit and the Consciousness, that gives it an incomparable possibility and
\nflexibility. And it is that which will give it the capacity to prolong its
\nlife, prolong its duration; it means the replacement of the intellectual
\ngovernment of the mind by the government of the Spirit, of the Consciousness \u2013
\nthe Consciousness. Outwardly it does not seem to make much difference, but…
\nmy experience is this (because now my body no longer obeys the mind or the
\nintelligence, not at all it does not even understand how this can be done), but
\nmore and more, better and better, it follows the guidance, the urge of the
\nConsciousness. And then it sees, almost every minute, the tremendous difference
\nthat this makes…. For example, time has lost its value its fixed value.
\nExactly the same thing can be one in a short time or a long time. Necessities
\nhave lost their authority. One can adapt oneself like this or like that. All
\nthe<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 106<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

laws, these
\nlaws that were laws of Nature, have lost all their despotism, one might say; it
\nis no longer as before. It is enough to be always, always supple, attentive
\nand… \u201cresponsive” to the influence of the Consciousness \u2013 the Consciousness
\nin its omnipotence \u2013 to pass through all that, with an extraordinary
\nsuppleness.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is the discovery which is being made more and more. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is wonderful, is it not? It is a wonderful discovery. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is like a progressive victory over all the imperatives. Thus
\nall laws of Nature, naturally, all the human laws, all the habits, all the
\nrules, all that becomes supple and ends by being non-existent. And yet one can
\nmaintain a regular rhythm that facilitates action \u2013 it is not contrary to this
\nsuppleness. But it is a suppleness in the execution, in the adaptation, that
\ncomes in and changes everything. From the point of view of hygiene, from the
\npoint of view of health, from the point of view of organisation, from the point
\nof view of relations with others, all that has lost not only its aggressiveness
\n(for it is sufficient to be sane \u2013 sane and sober and calm \u2013 for it to lose its
\naggressiveness), but its absolutism, its imperative rule; it is all gone, it is
\ngone. <\/span><\/p>\n

So, one sees: as the process becomes more and more perfect \u2013
\n\u201cperfect” means integral, total, leaving nothing behind \u2013 it is necessarily,
\ninevitably, the victory over death. Not that the dissolution of cells which
\ndeath represents does not exist, but it will exist only when it will be
\nnecessary: not as an absolute law, but as one of the procedures, when it is
\nnecessary. <\/span><\/p>\n

Above all, it is this: all that the Mind has brought of the rigid,
\nthe absolute, the almost invincible … will disappear. And simply that, by
\ntransferring the supreme power to the Supreme Consciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps it is that which the ancient seers meant when they spoke
\nof transferring the power of Nature or the power of Prakriti to Purusha,
\ntransferring it from Prakriti to Purusha. It is perhaps that which they
\nexpressed in this way.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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