Starts the terrible years.The change is DONE: a new mode of being of the cellular consciousness has appeared on earth. The future awaits - will the 'old' yield?
The beginning of the terrible years.... There was the feeling that Mother had found the secret of the change, conquered all she could from her own body, and that she was now sitting there, surrounded by the pack, just putting up with each and every resistance of the old species. "The change is DONE. Everything is tooth and nail, ferociously after me, but it's over." A new mode of being of the cellular consciousness had appeared on earth, as one day, in inert matter, there appeared a new mode of being called life - but this time it is "overlife": "The impression there is a way of being of the cells that would be the beginning of a new body; only, when that comes, the body itself feels it is dying." What would be the feeling of the first corpuscle to experience life? "The body feels it has reached the point of.... unknown. A very, very strange sensation. A sort of new vibration. It's so new that.... I can't speak of anguish, but it's.... the unknown. A mystery of the unknown." And there, what we call death is like the other side of the bowl for the former fish, and yet it is not "another world": "They are surprisingly one within the other! There is something there.... Is it possible? For overlife is both life and death together." And then, this cry of the breakthrough: "What appears to us as 'the laws of nature' is nonsense!...." Another world ON EARTH in which the old mortal laws of our bowl break down.... into something else? "I have just had a fantastic vision of the cradle of a future.... which is not very far. It's like a formidable mass suspended above the earth." But will the old pack let her go through to the end?
(Mother has a bloodshot left eye and a swollen cheek.)
Are you all right?
Yes, Mother, and you?
Toothache... Always something... It doesn't matter.
It's interesting simply because there isn't that spontaneous reaction everyone has (gesture turned in) of seeing and acting in relation with this (Mother points to her body). This [the body] is like this (gesture of abolition), it doesn't exist. Very strange—and spontaneously. It's not the result of a will or even a thought, a consciousness: it's a natural state. As if it did not exist. And I suppose that's why every little corner that isn't yet exactly as it should be goes wrong, and then... Then it has to set itself right, that's all.
From the standpoint of consciousness, it's quite fine—quite fine. It becomes natural, quite spontaneous, effortless.
The center isn't there, you understand! (Mother laughs, pointing to her body) Even, even physically.
It's all right.
(Then Mother translates a few fragments of Savitri:)
This mire must harbour the orchid and the rose, From her blind unwilling substance must emerge A beauty that belongs to happier spheres. II.II.107
This mire must harbour the orchid and the rose, From her blind unwilling substance must emerge A beauty that belongs to happier spheres.
II.II.107
(Satprem reads the end of chapter 11 of Supermanhood, "The Change of Power.")
It's magnificent!...
Is T. translating it into English?
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Is she interested?
Don't know.
And German?... If there were someone...
(silence)
It leaves me the whole day in a very comfortable atmosphere.
We still have some time. We can still have a little moment of quiet.
(meditation)
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