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?
What do you wish?
Well, you know, I always wish to ask you how things stand.
Oh! Better not speak about that.
Yes. I understand it's a process...
Oh!...
...that's infinite and....
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Yes. Either I say everything or nothing at all. And saying everything is.... You know, there's both a constant effort and... (Mother opens her hands) every minute a discovery. So describing it would be endless, and also uninteresting.
Well, I'm not so sure about that! I'm not so sure!
Therefore....
(silence)
The body consciousness is beginning to be wise, it too is saying with a great, great... more than sincerity, "Let Your Will be done." People and their opinions and their way of seeing things seem so very ridiculous to it!
Yes, I can understand that.
Let Your Will be done.
Yes, to your vision, we must be swimming in an utterly absurd world.
Absurd, an absurdity!
That I can understand very well: this whole physical world is absurd. Without a doubt.
And even the people!...
Yes!
...whom you thought were wise, or people who have known you for so many years—their reactions seem so absurd!
So ... (Mother opens her hands) let Your Will be done.
Naturally the body understands very well (it never doubts that His Will will be done: it is ALWAYS done), but let us be... let us not be an obstacle to that Will or a complication: let us allow things to be done luminously and peacefully—consciously, luminously, peacefully... all-encompassingly.
Let us not be part of the obstacles. Let us be... (Mother opens her hands) let the supreme Wisdom pass, pass through... something
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that is not an extra obstacle. That's all.
(Mother plunges in)
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