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?
About Mother's correspondence
It's very often like that: I get nearly twenty-five or thirty letters every day; out of them, I have time to read eight or ten, and at the time of reading them, most often there is no answer: they're at least ninety-eight percent useless. When there is something, the answer comes right away. Or when there is no answer right away, sometimes (often) I put it aside, and when I am alone, Sri Aurobindo comes and says to me, "Why don't you tell him this?" Then I immediately write it down. It happens very often. And always an answer, oh, with a sense of ridiculousness, of humour, touching the exact point where the weakness or unconsciousness lies. It's very amusing. So I never try to find, naturally, never ever, it comes like that quite simply. When I have to answer, it comes; then I just have to take a paper, my pen, and I write it down. That's the part of the work which isn't work, but amusement.
Soon afterwards
I made a speech to you, twice.
Very early in the morning, while you must have been still asleep. Last night and the night before, very early, around four in the morning, I made a speech. Not quite "I" (and what's "I," in the first place, where is "I"? I don't know), it's ... At times it comes from high above, like that, imperative; sometimes, it comes from Sri Aurobindo, and that's much closer, intimate. And it was Sri Aurobindo, both times. I made a speech to you.
What was it?
He must have told you! And for you, it will come back like this (gesture from within); one day, all of a sudden, it will re-emerge from deep within you. I even saw that (the experience was rather complete), I saw it go within, and saw that one day it would re-emerge and would simply be like an inspiration or a revelation, or even simply like a knowledge: "Ah! So that's how it is!"
Very amusing.
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Sri Aurobindo spoke very clearly. He told you WHY things are like this. But he didn't tell me to tell you, he said, "I am saying it to him and one day he will know it."
But on what subject?
On the subject of what you told me last time: that your body left to itself doesn't have any experiences. He told you why. And he told you how to do it. But that I can repeat to you; I can repeat the "how to do it": he told you that your body is still in a condition in which it has to go to school, and it's your inner being, your consciousness, your true self that must teach it. He said, "It is still at a stage when it must be taught its lesson, and so it must learn its lesson."
There.
It's very interesting, and very intimate.
Then I asked him, "Should I tell him?" He said, "No, it must come out of himself, like that, it must be a sudden revelation, so that he will say, 'Ah! yes ...'"
There. (Laughing) So I've given you a good little tug!
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