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?
I had a question I wanted to ask you.
What is it?
I was wondering about the difference between.... You remember, in the past you used to go into trance, into the inner states. I wanted to know the difference between the trance you knew in the past and the one now?
Completely different.
So it isn't a "trance."
No.
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No, it's another type of consciousness. The difference is such that I wonder... sometimes I wonder how it is possible—at times, it is so new, so unexpected it's almost painful.
Aah!...
So I ask myself, "What?" And externally I see but one solution: externally—I repeat OM Namo Bhagavateh. Constantly—that's for the outer being. And inside... (gesture, hands open in immobile contemplation)...
(silence)
...an extraordinary silence. I think I've been in it for a few minutes, but sometimes it's an hour.... And the opposite too: I feel time drags on and on, and it's been only a few minutes. Which means that time is different. But then, if the value of time changes.... Our time is based on the sun, you see, but there, it is another reference.
So, in other words, you don't actually go out of Matter?
No, not at all.
It's a new condition IN Matter.
Yes. Yes, yes, exactly. And ruled by something other than the sun—I don't know what.... Probably the Supramental consciousness.
At mealtimes, for example, sometimes I think I have eaten very fast, and it has taken me more than an hour. Other times, I feel it took a long time—it took just a few minutes. So if you look at that from an ordinary standpoint, you feel that... people will think you're crazy. So there's a sort of recommendation: silence, silence, silence, silence....
Not too much with me, please!
(Mother laughs)
I wanted to know if personally... if personally I was in the right direction.
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I will take a look.
(Mother is absorbed for a few seconds)
The answer was immediately YES, but it wasn't I who gave the answer.
(Mother is absorbed again and comes back almost immediately with a movement of suffocation)
You see how it is: now, as soon as I try to know something, I feel such a suffocating heat I think I am going to die. There. Do you understand?
Yes.
That's how it is.
Yes, Mother. Yes, one shouldn't "try to know," that's it.
(Mother plunges in)
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