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?
It's very interesting.... Because of this "message" for the New Year1 (everybody is talking about this message everywhere, it has given a good jolt; even in government circles, everywhere), because of this message, everyone is claiming to be a "defender of the Truth." They ask me questions, and everyone is surprised that the truth as he conceives it isn't established in the world. So I am beginning to be
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forced to wage war for the Truth against all the conceptions of the truth! And that's rather interesting.
For instance, there is here that old idea of vegetarian food. Some people write to me indignantly that these "holy rules" are being increasingly broken in the Ashram! They wrote to me a first time, asking me to answer; I neglected to answer. So they wrote a second time to tell me, "... What can we do if you don't answer?" I answered (they are probably kicking themselves), I replied something like this:
"Truth is not a dogma that one can learn once and for all and impose as a rule. Truth is as infinite as the supreme Lord and It manifests every instant for those who are sincere and attentive."
I could have added other things but I didn't, so as not to wage battle too openly!
The same day, that is, just today, I received another letter.... The whole letter ranted and raved about all that's goes on in the Ashram, saying, "What! This place is worse than the world!" and so forth. (All this in the name of "truth", naturally.) So (laughing) I answered:
"Were Truth to manifest in such a way as to be seen and understood by all, they would be terrified by the enormity of their ignorance and false interpretation."
I hit hard this time.
And it's going on.
Day after day it's like that, growing acute. Everyone is the "defender of the Truth." One about food, another about money, another about business, another about relationships...—everyone has his hobby-horse.
The wonderful thing is that till now not one has told me, "Maybe my opinions aren't true?"—not one! "Maybe my way of seeing or feeling isn't true?"—not one. All are right in the Truth!
It's very interesting.
The defenders of the truth are often worse than the enemies of the truth.
(Mother nods approvingly) But I can't say anything because I am the one responsible, I told them, "Cling to Truth."
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No, they all make the same mistake: they confuse truth with the old idea of virtue. They all make the same mistake as the moral error.
And above all, they want a truth expressed in a few very clear and well-defined words, so they can say, "This is true." The old calamity of religions: "This is true"—consequently the rest is falsehood.
How many times... how many times have we said, Sri Aurobindo (and I too) said, "When a thing is true, you can be sure that its opposite is also true. When you have understood this, then you will begin to understand."
This morning I was also bombarded with a quotation from Sri Aurobindo (they came and bombarded me in the name of Sri Aurobindo!), to tell me that in The Mother it was written that, "The divine Grace can act only in the Truth"—and I shouldn't forget that! (Mother laughs) There is a quotation from Sri Aurobindo in which he says, "The divine Grace will answer, but do not think it will answer in Falsehood...." An admirable sentence. Only, they don't know: they are the possessors of the Truth—the Falsehood is the others!... And even intelligent people (that's the strange thing, because it's so idiotic!), even people ... anyway, those with a brain, who understand, fall into the trap.
It's very common at the School.
(silence)
One could say thanks to all this (not even "because of"—THANKS TO all this), I have had these last days, these last three days, the vision—the concrete vision, showing how at every second, the supreme Consciousness (which I personally find convenient to call the "supreme Lord"), how at EVERY SECOND, it makes you do or say or see or know ex-act-ly what is needed for everything to move like this (round gesture expressing the innumerably ramified movement of universal forces), to move forward. It's not yet the direct, all-powerful, crushing Movement of direct Forces (gesture from above downward, like a sword of light): it's a movement like this (same round gesture), but marvellous—marvellously subtle, ingenious, respectful of everything, but everything; you know, a movement that makes use of everything to lead towards the Goal, even "errors"—which are not errors because when the Consciousness is there, the error isn't an error committed by ignorance: a thing is said or done because that's what needs to be said or needs to be done—it may in appearance be even a blunder, yet it's ex-act-ly what is needed for everything to move forward
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(same innumerable round gesture), move forward luminously towards the desired goal. It's absolutely marvellous! And seen in tiny little details and in the whole. It's this marvel of a Consciousness that makes each one do what must be done, puts each thing in its place, arranges everything, and it's our idiocy, an absolutely ignorant and stupid vision, that would have us believe in faults, in errors, in ... Each one is a problem to be resolved, so all those problems interpenetrate, and it is the WHOLE that must be led, precisely towards this famous Truth (the true one). But I've spent, you know, hours in admiration—a blissful admiration—before this marvel of order, with all the little things around you, all the little people around you, all the little circumstances.... It's wonderful! Wonderful!
And then, this presumptuous mind which understands nothing and asserts itself in its all-powerful knowledge, oh ... it's so comical!
It is the maximum use of all possibilities and all impossibilities, all capacities and all incapacities; a maximum use in a maximum power and a maximum Compassion, and then... a smile! A smile, a sense of humour, oh!... Such a benevolent irony, so full of compassion, so wonderful.... And this presumptuous mind, which is an incredible phenomenon indeed: it spends its time judging what it doesn't know and deciding on what it doesn't see!
Then there was the vision of others and the remembrance of the time when those things had great importance and were taken very seriously, with a solemnity... a wholly moral solemnity.
That's amusing too.
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