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?
I've just come from there [the music room where Mother receives visitors]. I saw some twenty people.... There was Orissa's Chief Minister (Orissa is the first province in India to give money for a pavilion in Auroville: they gave a lakh of rupees). He is a nice man. The people from Orissa, they are nice people; of all provinces, they are the ones who seem the most eager to forge ahead, to change something.
And Bengal? Isn't it ahead?
They're a bit... fanciful. I mean, they talk a lot—they talk very well! Those from Orissa are more practical—they're generous, a very generous nature: they give a lot.
Bengal... they know, or feel, that they are the country's intellectual leaders, so they are puffed up with themselves. Me, I like simple people.
Soon afterwards
I've been given the continuation of T.F.'s class about death. There are new notes.
(Mother holds out a paper to Satprem)
Sweet Mother, we have received your answer with joy and send you our reflections and our questions about the first paragraph: "Death is the phenomenon of decentralization and scattering of the cells...."
So then?
Abhijit says, "If a cell becomes conscious of its own personality, there is a risk that it may act in its own interest without regard for the collective interest."
(Mother laughs) The interest of a cell!
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Then?
Amitangshu asks two questions. The first is, "Does the decentralization take place all at once or in degrees?..."
It takes time.
It happens like this: the central will of the physical being abdicates its will to hold all the cells together. That's the first phenomenon. The central will accepts dissolution. But everything doesn't just scatter all at once—it takes a long time.
What precedes death is accepting to cease the centralization in the form for some reason or other. I have noticed that one of the strongest reasons (one of them, very strong) is a sense of irreparable disharmony. Another is a sort of disgust at carrying on the effort of coordination.
There are, in fact, innumerable reasons, but there is a sort of effort of cohesion and harmonization, and what inevitably precedes death (unless it's caused by a violent accident) is that, for one reason or another, or for no reason, that will to maintain cohesion abdicates.
There's a second question: "Must each cell be conscious of its unity with the center?"
That's not how it is.
(after a long silence)
It's hard to make them understand.... It's still a semicollective consciousness, not an individual consciousness of the cells.
Anand Arya asks this: "Does the decentralization always take place after death, or can it begin before?"
(Laughing) It often begins before!
Dilip M. asks, "Do the cells scatter in space or within the body? If it is in space, then the body must disappear with the cells?"
Naturally! Naturally, after death the body dissolves. But it takes a long time....
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These children don't know because [in India] bodies are burned.
Rita asks, "In the phrase 'scattering of the cells,' doesn't the word 'scattering' have a particular meaning? If so, which one?"
I used the word in its quite positive meaning.
I have even seen that those cells that have been specially developed and have become conscious of the divine Presence within themselves, when the concentration that gives shape to the body is stopped and the body dissolves (it dissolves little by little), all those conscious cells spread out and enter other combinations in which, through contagion, they awaken the consciousness of the Presence each of them had. So then, it's through this phenomenon of concentration, development and scattering that Matter in its totality evolves, so to speak, and learns through contagion, develops through contagion, experiences through contagion.
But what enters other combinations isn't the cell itself—it's the subtle consciousness of the cells?
Yes, of course! The cell, too, dissolves. It's the CONSCIOUSNESS of the cells that penetrates others.
It's very hard to explain to one who doesn't have the experience.
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