Mother has found the 'new consciousness': 'these cells, other cells, it was life and consciousness everywhere, all bodies were this body!' SALVATION is PHYSICAL.
Now Mother has found the "passage", what she calls "the new consciousness," the one capable of opening up a new world to us, just as the first breaking of the watery mirror by an amphibian opened up a new air to us: "I don't know what is happening, there's a state of intense vibration, like waves of lightning rapidity, so rapid that they see motionless. And then I go off to America, to Europe.... This body has never been so happy: these cells, other cells, it was life everywhere, consciousness everywhere, all bodies were this body!...." And all our physiological misery vanishes by the same token: "There is a sort of dilation of the cells, the sense of boundaries lessons, fades away, and the pains vanish physically." And it isn't "another world," it is this earth, our earth but lived otherwise: "As if we had entered an unreal falsehood, and everything disappears once you get out of it - it simply does not exist! And all the artificial means of getting out of it, including Nirvana, are worthless. SALVATION IS PHYSICAL! It is here, right here. All the rest, death included, really becomes a falsehood - there is no such thing as "disappearing", no "life vs death"!...." And as she breaks through the walls of our bowl, the whole world is in revolt - including Mother's entourage - as if it were under the pressure of a new air: "A considerable number of desires for it to die [Mother's body]; everywhere, they are everywhere!.... The whole gamut of feelings around me, from anxiety, eagerness for it to be over quickly, to impatient desires: free at last!.... I don't want to be put in a box, the cells are conscious.... What is going to happen? I don't know. It runs contrary to all habits." A new species is quite contrary to the old habits of the world - will the world accept it, or wind up killing it off?
(Heavy rain poured down on that day.)
We've brought too many Europeans here, it changes the climate!
Do you have anything to tell me?... Me, I have nothing, except quarrels, stupidities, conflicts... all sorts of stupid things...1
(there follows a long affair which will remain unsaid)
I must say that anyone other than you would find it crushing to have to deal with all this confusion.
(Mother laughs) I find it hard to realize, that is, to understand or explain (it enters my consciousness with difficulty) that people, when they are in front of me, could dare say something untrue.... In the past, it seemed impossible to me, but from experience I've learned (!) that they do it. How they do it, I don't know...
And that's not the only thing, there are many others.
But they do it ingenuously. If they had a will to deceive me, I would know it instantly, but they do it ingenuously—they deceive themselves.
They see things like this (Mother makes a twisting gesture), never straight.... But when one isn't constantly led—exclusively led—by
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the higher Consciousness, one does it almost automatically: a slight "this way" (same gesture of twisting), without knowing it, without premeditation.
That [the twist], I saw it in the past. It became impossible only when nothing came either from here (gesture to the head) or from here (the throat), or here (the heart), or here (the solar plexus), or... It comes like this (gesture from above), then it's impossible—but only then.
(silence)
It's clearly a time of transition.
(Later, Mother gives Satprem the following note which was given to seven or eight members of Orissa's parliament:)
"Socialism like all political parties belongs to the past and must be surpassed if we want to serve the Truth."
The most comical part—that is, the most extraordinary—is that they all agreed! I thought they were going to be furious.... They all said, "Oh, this is fine, we'll adopt it...."
Their conviction wasn't very deep!
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