The 'mind of the cells' will find the key at the level of cellular consciousness: the old matter and 'laws' change to reveal 'true matter' and a new species.
Humanity is not the last rung of terrestrial creation. Evolution continues and man will be surpassed. It's up to each one to know whether he wants to participate in the adventure of the new species." This was 1966, the year of the Cultural Revolution in China. A far more profound revolution was taking place in a body which, on behalf of all the little bodies of the earth was seeking the one solution that would change everything: "We are seeking the process that will give the power to undo death.... The mind of the cell is what will find the key." It is the perilous transformation from a human body moves by the laws of the mind to the next body moved by a still nameless law buried in the heart of the cell: "A coagulated vibration, denser than air, extremely homogeneous, of golden luminosity, with a fantastic power of propulsion.... Everything is becoming strange, everything.... The body is no longer dependent on physical laws…" Isn't this the sensation the first vertebrate must have had when it emerged from the watery milieu into another nameless one in which we breathe today? "Each part of the body, at its moment of change, feels the end has come.... All the supports have been taken away.... I have no path to follow!" For what is the path to the next species? "A few have got to open it up." At times, though, the other "milieu" suddenly appears: "An instant marvel.... A state in which time no longer has the same reality, it's very peculiar.... an innumerable present. Another way of living." 80 years earlier, a little girl had undergone her first revolution of matter: "When I was told that everything was made up of "atoms", it caused a sort of revolution in my head: Why. nothing is real, then!" A second revolution takes place at the level of the cellular consciousness: the old matter and its apparent laws change into a new world and a new way of being in the body.
(Mother resumes her translation of the debate with Death.)
Think not to plant on earth the living Truth
That's just what I am doing, Sir.
(turning to Satprem with a smile)
Do you think he hears me?
Think not to plant on earth the living Truth Or make of Matter's world the home of God; Truth comes not there but only the thought of Truth, God is not there but only the name of God. (X.IV.646)
Think not to plant on earth the living Truth Or make of Matter's world the home of God; Truth comes not there but only the thought of Truth, God is not there but only the name of God.
(X.IV.646)
(Mother remains pensive)
Basically, according to Sri Aurobindo, materialistic thought is the gospel of death. No?
It's very interesting.
(silence)
That's basically the point. We say Savitri is an "epic"; so Savitri is the epic of the victory over death.
Very interesting. Because once again, all these last few days I have lived almost minute after minute all those things [we've just read], but on a large scale: not on a personal but on a terrestrial scale.
This last line, this argument, it was so concrete: "No, it's not God, it's only his name"—that was yesterday or the day before, not earlier. And then... (Mother recalls her experience)... Strangely, the victories over these arguments have the same character of bursts as did those bursts of Love I lived up above—the same character—and they shatter the resistance. And the something
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that bursts forth is Love—true Love.
And from everywhere, but everywhere, the opposition, the resistance is rising up; and the more it rises up, the more imperative That is.
But at such times one feels how precarious the equilibrium of material life is.... Oh, it's very, very interesting. When I am able to say all this, it will be worthwhile.
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