The 'yoga of the cell' leads to 'true matter' and eventually the victory over death. A collective transformation sufficient to create a new species on earth is needed.
This year, all the features of the yoga of the cells become clear: "A growing conviction that a perfection achieved in matter is a far more perfect perfection than any other. The consciousness expressed in transformed cells is a marvel: it legitimises all these ages of misery. Oh, what a fuss all those gods make." This year marks the discovery of "true matter".... without fuss: "In that cellular limpidity, there are no more problems: the solution precedes the problem. That is, things arrange themselves automatically." It's another mode of life on earth - "such a natural way of being" - in a body freed from its mental shackles and the laws of false matter: "The extraordinary impression of the unreality of suffering the unreality of illness.... It does not cure illness: it annuls it - it makes it unreal.... And then you see: as the functioning gradually grows perfect, it necessarily, inevitably means victory over death." And meanwhile, Surveyor is digging the ground of the moon with its mechanical arms, while our own secrets remain buried in a little cell: "We can travel anywhere, we know what's going on anywhere.... and we don't know what's going on inside ourselves." War is raging in Biafra, the Israeli troops are marching toward Suez, American planes are bombing Haiphong, China explodes its first thermonuclear bomb.... and so on. "A tremendous conflict over earth." At stake is a new earth, or a return to the old fiasco: "A local and momentary manifestation is not ruled out, but what is needed is a collective transformation sufficient to create a new species on earth.... This fact is certain." Will we understand where the real way out is, and the Marvel concealed in a human body?
With this Israel affair, I have been made to write all sorts of things, to answer all kinds of questions (Mother looks for her notes).... Did I show you this?
"Those who serve the Truth cannot take one side or another. Truth is above conflict or opposition. In Truth all countries unite in a common effort towards progress and realisation."
This was in answer to someone who asked whom to "side" with.
There is also that man who wrote from Israel, saying that their success, their victory exceeded anything they had hoped for. And he
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adds, "They seem to be too materialistic to know the real source of it"—he knew. But he says (he is American, not an Israeli; he may be Jewish by religion, I don't know, but he is American by birth), he says he greatly admires the way the country is organized, there in Israel, and that it's "a marvel of brotherhood and sense of organization." So he writes to ask me if this isn't the beginning of a future realization?
They clearly are very receptive.... I saw it straight away; when I was told that the Egyptians, and in particular this president,1 had decreed that the Israeli nation must disappear, I straight away saw there was a very strong reaction2—(laughing) it brought about quite a categorical result!
Then I was asked another question:
"If a world-war breaks out, it may not only destroy the major portion of humanity but may even make living conditions for those who survive impossible due to the effects of the nuclear fall-out. In case the possibility of such a war is still there, will it not affect the advent of the Supramental Truth and of the New Race upon earth?"
Here is the answer:
"All these are mental speculations and once you enter the domain of mental imaginations there is no end to the problems and to their solutions. But all that does not bring you one step closer to the truth. "The safest and most healthy attitude of the mind is like this one: we have been told in a positive and definite way that the supramental creation will follow the present one, so, whatever is in preparation for the future must be the circumstances needed for the advent whatever they are. And as we are unable to foresee correctly what these circumstances are, it is better to keep silent about them."
I wanted to tell you that I saw V. a few days ago, and he said that according to what he had felt or seen, he was ninety-five percent
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certain that a new conflict will break out around September or October, probably in the direction of Pakistan or China: between Pakistan and India or between China and India.
People are expecting that.
He told me he is ninety-five percent certain.
People are quite expecting that. And Pakistan has joined hands with China, and their ships are now sailing around India.... What are they doing? I don't know.
But a few years ago, you said that the fate of the present civilization will be settled in 1967. You used the word "settled."3 Well, the impression is that if the future is to be really "settled," a great many things, a great many latent diseases are yet to come out, aren't they?
Yes... Yes (Mother nods her head several times and remains silent).
I've received a telegram from D., from Darjeeling.4 Her request for a permit has been turned down: she wanted to go up there, but it was refused. She had written a letter that came two or three days ago, in which she said, "The talk is all about spying, the atmosphere is full of spying, all letters are read, everyone is watched," and "things are in an awful condition." And yesterday, I received the telegram in which she said that the permit was refused: she has to leave.
Very nervous, people are very, very nervous.
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