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?
Do you have something?
No, nothing in particular, except that it's difficult.
No questions?
It's difficult.
(silence)
I had some things for you (Mother feels the objects on the table near her), it was in an envelope.
"One must not confuse a religious teaching and a spiritual teaching. Religious teaching belongs to the past and stops all progress, spiritual teaching is the teaching of the future. It enlightens the consciousness and prepares it for the future realization. "A spiritual teaching is above religions and strives towards a total truth. It teaches us to come into direct contact with the Divine."
"One must not confuse a religious teaching and a spiritual teaching. Religious teaching belongs to the past and stops all progress, spiritual teaching is the teaching of the future. It enlightens the consciousness and prepares it for the future realization.
"A spiritual teaching is above religions and strives towards a total truth. It teaches us to come into direct contact with the Divine."
It's for a lady who came from I don't know where and wanted to teach in a parochial school. So I replied with that.
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There's also the message you gave All India Radio for August 15:
"The message from Sri Aurobindo is a sunshine radiating over the future."1
And for the darshan here [of August 15], do you have a message?
(after a silence)
I could say:
"Sri Aurobindo's message radiates over the future like an immortal sun."2
You have nothing?
Last time, you spoke of the difference between life and death. In other words, life is no longer the way it was, but death neither...
Yes.
(with a gesture Mother dismisses the question)
I'd like to LIVE like that.... I don't know.
(Mother plunges in a long time then comes back)
"Sri Aurobindo's message is an immortal sunlight radiating over the future."3
That's right. That's much better.
(Mother plunges in again till the end)
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