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object:1966-07-27
book class:Agenda Vol 07
author class:The Mother
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter


1966 Wed 27 July
July 27, 1966

Today is the birthday of Jyotin, the gardener. He brought me this, look! (Mother gives a double pink lotus) Its beautiful.

The day man will be like this

There, exactly! Exactly what I was thinking. When you see this, you feel your infirmity. (Mother looks at the flower again) Its wonderful, isnt it?

Man really isnt an improvement! He is full of miseries and ugly things, while this is so simple, so spontaneous.

Yes, a few days ago the consciousness was under attack. All that is petty, sordid, ugly, oh poor, helpless, all thatit was such an avalanche! This poor body, it cried over its incapacity to express anything superior. And then, the answer was very simpleit was very clear, very strong and the experience came: the only solution the only way out of the difficulty is to BECOME divine Love. And the experience was there at the same time for a few moments (it lasted long enough, maybe more than half an hour). Then you understand that everything you have to go through, all these ordeals, all this suffering, all these miseries, is nothing in comparison with the experience of what will be (and what is). But we are still incapable, meaning that the cells havent the strength yet. They are beginning to have the capacity to be, but not the strength to keep ThatThat cannot stay yet.

And That has such an extraordinary power to transform what is! All our notions (and this had become visible), our notions of miracle, of marvelous change, all the stories of miracles that have been told, all of it becomes a childs prattleits nothing! Nothing. All that we try to have, all that we aspire to have, all that is childishness.

Only, it was clear that this isnt ready yet.

And it was so extraordinary that the cells felt they couldnt live on without without That. That was the impression: That, or else dissolution. And when That had gone away It didnt go by accident but deliberately, and with the clear notion: Now no fuss, you must prepare yourself for That to stay. And it was so categorical (gesture like a Command from above), that there was no arguing. When That had left, there was a sort of suffocation. Then the Command came, with the rigidity of a wall: No fuss, you must prepare yourself.

Then you return to your senses, and it all seems so oh!

There is the certitude the certitude based on experience that when That is here, it will be Or rather, while That is here (since It was here for a while), all the splendors you experience by rising, going out, leaving the body, are nothing. Its nothing, it doesnt have that concrete reality. When you have the experiences up above, you live up above and everything appears lackluster and useless in comparison, but even that appears vague in comparison with HERE. This is truly why the world was created: its to add to that essential Consciousness something so concrete and so solid, so real, and with such tremendous power!

Only, to the body consciousness it seems long. Up above, of course, there is a smile, but for the body And strangely enough, there isnt in the body that joy of the memory of the experience. You have the joy of the memory of the experiences up above, but here, its not like that! Its not that. The body might say, Its no use for me to remember: I want to have the thing. Because wherever the mind comes in, the memory is charming, but here, its not like that. Its not like that: on the contrary, it intensifies the need to be, the aspiration, the need. And life looks like something so stupid, false, artificial, meaningless, without Whats all this nonsense we constantly live in! And yet, when That was there, nothing was destroyed, everything remained, but it was something else altogether.

Later (Mother seems about to say something, then stops her self) later.

No, it has made me understand something, but its something very (how can I put it?), very intimate. When Sri Aurobindo left, I knew I had to cut the link with the psychic being, otherwise I would have gone with him; and as I had promised him I would stay on and do the work, I had to do that: I literally closed the door on the psychic and said, For the moment this doesnt exist anymore. It remained like that for ten years. After ten years, it slowly, slowly began to open againit was frightening. But I was ready. It began to open again. But then, that experience surprised me when I had it; I wondered why it had been like that, why I had received that comm and and had to do it. And when there was in the body that identification with divine Love [a few days ago], after that had left, the cells were ordered to undergo a similar phenomenon [to what happened after Sri Aurobindos departure]. And I understood why the whole material world is closed: its to allow it to exist WITHOUT the experience [of divine Love]. Naturally, I had understood why I was made to close off my psychic, because because it was truly impossible, I couldnt go on existing outwardly without Sri Aurobindos presence. Well then, the cells have understood that they must go on existing and living their life without the presence of divine Love. And thats how it took place in the world: it was a necessary phenomenon for the formation and development of the material world.

But were perhaps nearing We are nearing the time when it will be allowed to open again.

(silence)

You remember, I dont know if it was in a letter or an article, Sri Aurobindo spoke of the manifestation of divine Love; he said, Truth will have to be established first, otherwise there will be catastrophes. I understand that very well.

But its a long time in coming! (Mother laughs)

Up above, nothing is long. But anyway, its here that we are ordered to exist and to achieve.

Its on this occasion, too, that I had an answer regarding death. I was told, But they all want to die! Because they dont have the courage to be before That is manifested. And I saw I clearly saw it was like that.

The power of Death is that they all want to die! Not like that in their active thought, but in the bodys deep feeling, because it doesnt have the courage to be without Thatit takes great courage.

So they began with a complete ignorance and general stupidity, participating in all that this life is outwardly (as if it were something wonderful!). But as soon as they begin to grow a little wiser, it stops being wonderful. Its like what I said about this flower [the lotus]: when you know how to look at a flower, at the so spontaneous and, oh, uncomplicated expression of this marvelous Love, then you understand how long the way isall these attachments, all this importance we give to useless things, whereas there should be a spontaneous and natural beauty.

If the world understood too soon, nobody would want to stay on, basically! Thats the point.

Yes, exactly! Thats the point.

If they knew too soon, if they were able to see the opposition between what is and what must be, they wouldnt have the courage. One must one must truly be heroicheroic. I assure you, I see these cells, they are heroicheroic. As for them, they dont know in that mental way: its only their adoration that saves them. That is, What You will, Lord, what You will, what You will , with the simplicity of a childs ingenuous heart: What You will, what You will, what You will only what You will and nothing but what You will exists. Then its all right. But without that, its not possible. Its not possible to know what they know and to continue to be if That isnt there. You know, the feeling is, At Your service, what You will, what You will whatever You will , without discussion, without anything, without even a sensation, nothing: What You will, what You will.

This is the only strength, there is no other.

Well, some have to do it, dont they! Otherwise it would never get done.

And at that moment1 (it was a rather difficult moment), there was even in the consciousness it was like a sword of white light that nothing can shake and which gave the cells the sensation, What! But you should be in an ecstasy of joy, now that you know what will bewhat there IS, in principle.

But it has caused a sort of detachment from the gestures, the outside, as if life werent quite realyet real at the same time, but the Reality isnt there. There is the sense of the Presence; thats constant. And thats a good thing to begin with, it strongly counterbalances the sense and perception of all the Distortion. There is even an insistence from this Presence for That alone to exist and to increasingly reduce the reality of the perception of what must not be. There will be a great strength in the being when the perception of what must not be is dimmed, erased as something far away and nonexistent.

Thats what is being prepared.

What makes the work a little more complicated is that it isnt limited to this (Mothers body), its everything, everything around and to a rather considerable distance. Because the contact in thought is almost perfectly established: its impossible for someone to think [of Mother] without there being a response in the consciousnessa response, a perception. So, imagine what it is Its rather vast and rather complicated.

And there are kinds of rungs or stagesstages in the response of the consciousness; rungs and stages according to the degree of development and consciousness. It makes for, oh, not an immensity, but still a rather extensive world. In this perception, the earth isnt very large.

And there is a precision in details for tiny things, like what goes on in an individuals consciousness, for instance, or the response to certain events. Its very, very precise. But there is always a ban on saying things so as not to give them a power of concretization.

But the work is being done like that, on all the planes; on all the planes (there are even planes beneath the feet), constantly, constantly, without stop, night and day.
***

A little later:

Were still receiving heaps of letters. Lots of people want to come and are asking questions. Theres going to be a crush of peoplesome are arranging planes! So yesterday I said, Well have a direct yearly flight: Paris-Auroville! And theyre going to prepare an airfield. We are already in negotiations with the government for the land: its huge, we could make four or five airfields! There will be a landing field in Auroville: Paris-Auroville! (Mother looks very amused.)

It seems that in 1972, there will be a new plane that will fly from Paris to India (Paris-Auroville!) in four hours. Which means that if they leave Paris in the evening, theyll reach here at daybreak (you know that some time is lost while coming here). And if they leave here at noon, theyll reach Paris at 10 in the morningtwo hours before they left.

Theyll end up going so fast that theyll reach the day before they left!

Four hours is fast.

A lot of use thatll be! I am regressive, you know. Whats the use of going so fast!

Its interesting.

Do you really think its any use?

(Mother laughs silence) Some rather queer things are going on. But Ill talk about them when I have completed my observations.

Another year or two, and there will be something to say.

When the experience of divine Love left the body.

***


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