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?
(The conversation begins an hour late.)
It's awful!
It's a pity for the Agenda, because when at 11 you've seen so many people... How many times you told me, "Oh, I think I had something to tell you, now it's gone..." It's a pity.
Yes, but the whole of life is like that. I try and try, but everyone comes—for birthdays, for visits, for ... And yet I don't take everyone. It's become frightful.
I want to do one thing: twice a week, the days when you come, I'll refuse to see people.
I'll arrange something, because it's beginning to be impossible. I can't do the work in these conditions.
(Then Mother listens to the English translation of the "Notes on the Way" proposed by Satprem, the conversation of August 16 in which Mother spoke of the need to make a void and wait for the Command from above.)
I think people will find it incomprehensible, they'll all fall asleep!
(To Nolini, in English:) What do you think, they can understand?
(Nolini, in English:) Understand does not matter, it is all right!... I tell to my class always—when I read Mother's things, to the
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class I say, "Don't try to understand, try to feel what is there—don't understand. The understanding if it comes it's all right, if it does not come, don't worry. Try to feel what is there."
(Soon afterwards, regarding Satprem's coming birthday, and his last meeting with the healer.)
I've tried to see what I could give you.... I don't know. Don't you need anything? If you do, tell me.... What? Is there nothing of which you'd say, "Oh, if I had that..."? Don't you ever say that to yourself?
No.
You're wonderful!
No, no, I just have all I need!
How old are you going to be?
46.
Babah!
(silence)
It seems I've raised torrents with A.R.?
Poor man, he wept.... But in the end, I think it did him good.
He's leaving in a few days.
It's very hard to know what one should do.
Yes.
(long silence)
One can't know. As for me, I am convinced that one can't know, that one must be like this (Mother opens her hands upward). What I've said here [in the "Notes on the Way"] is true: one must be like that, and then... let the Consciousness act through oneself.
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That's what I tried to do. Don't you see any error in that?
No! For me, that doesn't exist.
Seen from a distance, I am convinced it did him a lot of good. At the time, it was very hard.
But I was impelled to speak to him like that because I did like this man!
If I had been indifferent to him, I would have said, "Yes, yes, very good," and that's all.
Yes. One doesn't know The body here is beginning to understand thoroughly that one must be like this (gesture upward). The one most important thing is to have one's consciousness CONSTANTLY turned towards... towards the Perfection we must manifest. That's all.
With the understanding we have, it's IMPOSSIBLE to know. Our vision is too small.
That's what I try to do, and what I pray you give me, Mother—it's to do the True Thing.
Yes, that's it. That's what I wanted to give you tomorrow... if I can. But it's not "me," you understand: ask above and you will have it.
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