The consciousness of the cells is being taught to break free of 'false matter' with resultant effect in every country and continent, and every branch of human knowledge.
A fire spread across the world that year, from Warsaw to Colombia, from Nanterre to Alexandria: "There are long periods when things are being prepared, and a moment comes when something happens; and this something is what will bring about a new development in the world. Like the moments when man appeared on earth; now it is another being." This is the second turning point of Mother's Yoga. She is 90. Auroville has just been founded: "A center for accelerated evolution." Martin Luther King is assassinated, and Robert Kennedy. Russia invades Czechoslovakia - what is going on? "I have the strong impression of an attempt to make us learn something like the secret of the functioning [of man, of the earth]. The method we have learned is constantly shown to be false, it doesn't conform to reality, and there is a will to make us find the true method, but through experience." As if the earth were shut in a bowl, prisoner of a "false matter": "There is a sort of web over the entire earth, and the body is being taught how to get out of it.... Little by little the consciousness of the cells is breaking that hold." And on the other side of the web all of a sudden: "Never in my whole life have I seen or felt anything so beautiful!.... The most marvellous hours ever possible on earth - why do people go looking up above for something which is right here!" The short-lived miracle of 1968 seems to be swallowed up, while the walls of our bowl are slowly but inexorably being shattered in every country, every continent and every branch of human knowledge. "A considerable amount of time would still seem necessary for everything to be ready to change. And yet, there is almost a promise that a sudden change is going to take place." Could it be that, one fine morning, one last pressure of circumstances will throw us headlong into a new consciousness?
(Mother seems unwell.)
No voice....
It's not getting any better?
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The cold came down, and the day before yesterday I did something foolish: I took a medicine. It gave me a dreadful night and... now it's difficult. It cut the consciousness off. So now it's difficult.
The consciousness has come back, but...
And you, any news?
If you could send a little force on my publisher over there: the manuscript of the "Human Cycle" is stranded there.
Where?
With my publisher, in Paris.1
(Mother concentrates, then goes into a long contemplation)
When you have enough of staying quiet, tell me! As for me, I could remain like that the whole day long....
The Press is asking for a few texts to fill blanks in the forthcoming Bulletin.
Take from Sri Aurobindo, not from me! Everything from Sri Aurobindo.
(Satprem proposes the following text:)
"Overmind is obliged to respect the freedom of the individual....
Oh, that's a revelation! I didn't know that.
"...including his freedom to be perverse, stupid, recalcitrant and slow. "Supermind is not merely a step higher than Overmind—it is beyond the line, that is a different consciousness and power beyond the mental limit."
"...including his freedom to be perverse, stupid, recalcitrant and slow.
"Supermind is not merely a step higher than Overmind—it is beyond the line, that is a different consciousness and power beyond the mental limit."
(then a question:)
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"Do you imply that the Supermind will not be obliged to respect the freedom of the individual?"
(Sri Aurobindo replies:)
"Of course I do! It will respect only the Truth of the Divine and the truth of things."
(September 18 & 19, 1935)
Oh, that's very interesting. It's wonderful, put it!
Then there's another text, but I am not sure...:
"The scientific, rationalistic, industrial, pseudo-democratic civilisation of the West is now in process of dissolution and it would be a lunatic absurdity for us at this moment to build blindly on that sinking foundation. When the most advanced minds of the occident are beginning to turn in this red evening of the West for the hope of a new and more spiritual civilisation to the genius of Asia, it would be strange if we could think of nothing better than to cast away our own self and potentialities and put our trust in the dissolving and moribund past of Europe."2
I didn't know he had said that....
I don't know if it's very wise to say it.... But it's very true.
We should send it to the government of India.
N.S. [a minister in the Central government] is coming, I'll give it to her.
But not in the Bulletin.
And Indira Gandhi, wouldn't you send it to her?
......
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