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?
(Regarding the message Mother has given to Satprem for his birthday.)
"Here are the Light and the Divine Love which are always with you on the path, every outcome of which is only the starting point for a new stage."
It's precisely the experience I've had these last few days (yesterday, I think), just before writing the card. We always set an end to things—but there isn't any. There isn't any. The truth is, one rises like this (Mother draws a curve that reaches a point in space), but it's in order to go like this (gesture of a new curve rising higher from that point on), and again like this—for ever and ever.
It may be an individual consciousness, not necessarily an impersonal one; for the individual consciousness, too, it's like this: a great curve (Mother draws a trajectory up to a point), and like a springboard to go farther. So it was a vision like that, of something developing—developing while it expands and grows illumined.
We might say, the Consciousness growing more and more conscious of itself. That was the impression.
And everything is a means for it to grow conscious of itself.
That explains everything, besides. That's what explains everything.
The means for the Consciousness to become conscious of itself.
(silence)
And this work of growing awareness (self-awareness) in the body is really very interesting. Very interesting.
What would you like to ask me for your birthday?
You don't have anything to ask?
I'd like to do better.
(meditation)
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Then Mother writes the message she intends to give for 1969:
"No words—acts."
It seems you already gave this message for 1950?
One repeats oneself!
Things repeat themselves, yes.... Nineteen years!
We haven't made progress.
Yes, we have! I feel we've come a long way.
(Mother nods without saying anything)
Last time you asked me, "Where do I stand?" So when I wrote your card, I remembered your question. I thought I should write something for you about that. Then I evoked Sri Aurobindo in his portrait.1 I wrote, "Here is the Light and the Divine Love which always accompany you...
"Which are always with you on the path..."
And there I asked, "Well, where do we stand?" (for you). And he answered...
"...every outcome of which is only the starting point for a new stage."
He made me have the experience these last few days. It was the answer to your question.
It goes on indefinitely (Mother draws an immense road), so "Where do I stand?" (same immense gesture)—there's as much of the path behind as there is ahead! (Mother laughs)
But are things moving?
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Of course they are! They keep moving all the time.
Yet one doesn't clearly feel the consciousness developing....
Ah?
One feels the Light growing stronger, the Truth more living.... In a sense, there are no more questions; that's for sure, there are no more questions. But... what? One feels the consciousness isn't developing much.
If you don't have anything to say...
I would like to serve you better.
Don't you worry! It's quite fine.
I've lost the habit of speaking, for me it's very difficult.
I have a very strong impression that "one" wants us to learn something. Very strong. And I don't know what it is.
It's... something like the secret of the functioning.
There's a constant demonstration, through all kinds of little facts, that the process we conceive of, or understand, or have accepted, is false, not in conformity with reality, and one wants to make us find, discover—but discover WHILE LIVING IT—the true process of the Manifestation: the why and the how. The why: there's an impression like that. The how... (Mother shakes her head as if the thing were eluding her).
So there. And that's the state of consciousness I am in all the time. I am there as if pushing and pushing... (groping gesture, then the thing escapes).
I clearly feel it's only an identification... [that can give the key]. Yes, like a conscious identification, that is, with the consciousness remaining fully awake.
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There.
We'll see next year where we stand!
Mon petit...
Have a good year, mon petit.
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