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 gives "Transformation" flowers and slips one into her buttonhole, then mentions again the translation of the introduction of On the Way to Supermanhood.)
I also thought I would ask Shu-Hu to do it in Chinese. That would be good.
Shall I ask him for you?
Yes, tell him that I ask him to do it, if he wants to. If we could send it to China... There's a Chinese in Santiniketan, but I am no longer in touch with him (he gave all his goods to Communist China, and he's staying there). He's a philosopher, a very intelligent man.... But anyway, for the translation it should be Shu-Hu.
For the German, I don't know.... We have many Germans, but I don't know.
As for the book, it will do like The Adventure, it will spread little by little.
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(Then Satprem reads the first chapter: "The Mental Fortress." Mother stops at the following sentence:)
"...Nothing in the world is unnecessary, we are still looking for that pain which does not have its secret power of widening."
It's magnificent! Magnificent.
(at the end of the chapter, Satprem quotes Sri Aurobindo's "Hour of God")
"There are moments when the Spirit moves among men... there are others when it retires and men are left to act in the strength or the weakness of their own egoism. The first are periods when even a little effort produces great results and changes destiny...."
Is it the end?
Don't you say that we are now at one such moment?
I could add a sentence: "In truth, we are at this moment."
Oh, yes!
(Mother passes a few satisfied comments, then goes into a very smiling contemplation)
It's strange, it makes pictures....
(Mother plunges in again)
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