It's neither life nor death.. BOTH are being changed.. into something still unknown.. dangerous and wonderful. On Nov 17, 1973, she left her body - why?
"Before dying falsehood rises in full swing. Still people understand only the lesson of catastrophe. Will it have to come before they open their eyes?" This is the year of Watergate, of Nixon's first trip to China, the assassination of the Israeli athletes in Munich, the first oil embargo. This is Mother's last lap. A lap strewn with heartrending little cries and stunning visions. The end of one world, the beginning of another.... whether we want it or not. "Sometimes, it is so new and unexpected, it's almost painful." And I would ask her, "But is it a state outside matter?" "I don't go outside of physical life, but.... it looks different. But it is strange. And it is PHYSICAL, that is the extraordinary thing! As if the physical had split in two.... A new state in matter. And it is ruled by something that is not the sun, I don't know what it is.... I am touching another world. Another way of being.... dangerous but wonderful." How I listened to her little breath as she gasped for air, a breath that seemed to come from another side of the world: "There is no difference between life and death. It's neither life nor death, it is.... something. It is not the disappearance of death you understand: BOTH are being changed.... into something still unknown, which seems at once extremely dangerous and absolutely wonderful." And what if "death" were merely the other, MATERIAL side of our human bowl, the sunlit shore for a species to come? A new condition on both sides of the world, in which life and death change into.... something else? "I am treading a very thin and narrow line...." And then this cry, this entreaty: "Let me do the work!" On November 17, 1973, she passed away - why?
And what about your "change" [of government]?
It's going on!
(silence)
The conscious will seems to want to assume a larger role. It makes life... much more efficient, obviously, but also more difficult.
More difficult in what way?
Well, usually we passively leave it up to Nature to set things right when something goes wrong—that's totally disappearing. Now it is a process of consciousness, and no longer.... You see, the mind (laughing: it's going on—the supramental is still sitting on it!), the mind has been worked upon for years, so that it doesn't meddle when it's none of its business and lets Nature take care of all the damage; but now Nature is being told, "Keep quiet, a higher Consciousness will settle things." But that means the consciousness must be CONSTANTLY alert.
Constantly alert.
The consciousness' own attitude towards the Divine is to be as if nestling in the Divine—I could even say engulfed in the Divine: what You will, what You will, what You will, what You will.... As
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a "basic" attitude it's very good, I could say. But when suddenly, something in the body goes wrong, and you don't know why (oh, most of the time it's due to an outside cause, like a disorder coming from outside), so then you don't know what to do—there is no longer a mind to decide what to do; while the consciousness remains like this (hands open upwards). But then you don't know what to do, so you do nothing.
There is certainly something to be learned.
But if the consciousness is turned upward, doesn't the Intervention or the Action take place automatically?
Probably.
It must be like that.
That's my constant experience. But....
How are things for you?
I don't know. Better, I think.
Yes. Do you want me to see?
(Mother holds Satprem's hands, and closes her eyes)
Much better.
(Mother plunges in until the end, smiling and holding Satprem's hands)
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