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WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

14 March 1970

[...] What Sri Aurobindo says here of diseases is just that: the force of habit and of all its constructions and all that appears inescapable and irrevocable in diseases, all that, it is [new p. 228]as though experiences were multiplied in order to show... in order that one might learn that it is simply a question of attitude, yes, attitude, of going beyond, going beyond this mental prison in which humanity has shut itself and of... breathing up above.

And it is the experience of the body. Before, those who had inner experiences used to say, "Yes, up there it is so, but here..." Now the "but here" very soon will no longer be. This is the conquest that is being done, this tremendous change: that physical life must be governed by the higher consciousness and not by the mental world. It is a change over of authority.... It is difficult. It is hard. It is painful. Naturally there is breakage, but... But truly one can see--one can see. And that is the real change, it is that which will enable the new Consciousness to express itself. And the body is learning, learning its lesson--all bodies, all bodies.

(Silence)

It is the old division made by the mind: up above, it is quite all right, you may have all the experiences and everything is luminous, wonderful; here, nothing to be done. And the feeling that when one is born, still one is born in the world where nothing can be done. That explains, moreover, why all those who had not foreseen the possibility that things could be otherwise, used to say, "Better to depart and then..." All that has become so clear. But that change, the fact that it is no longer inevitable, that is the great Victory: it is no longer inevitable. One feels--one feels, one sees--and the body itself has had the experience that soon here also it can be more true.

There is, there is truly something changed in the world.

(Silence) [old p. 229]

Naturally, it will take some time before it is really established. [new p. 229]There, it is battle. From all sides, on all levels there is an assault of things that come to say externally, "Nothing has been changed"--but it is not true. It is not true, the body knows that it is not true. And now it knows, it knows in what direction.

And what Sri Aurobindo has written in these aphorisms, just what I am looking at now, is so prophetic! It was so much the vision of the True Thing. So prophetic.

(Silence)

And I see now, I see how his departure and his work so... so vast, yes, and so constant, in the subtle physical, how much, how much it has helped! How much it has (Mother makes a gesture of kneading Matter) helped to prepare things, to change the physical structure.

All the experiences that others have had, which were in order to come in contact with the higher worlds, left here below the physical as it is.... How to say it? From the beginning of my life till Sri Aurobindo's departure, I was in the consciousness that one can go up, one can know, one can have all the experiences (indeed, one did have them), but when one came back into this body... it was the old mental laws, for-mi-da-ble, which ruled things. And then, all these years have been years of preparation--preparation--liberation and preparation, and these days now it has been... ah! the physical recognition, made by the body, that it has changed.

It has to be "worked out", as it is said, it has to be realised in all the details, but the change is done--the change is done.

That is to say, the material conditions elaborated by the mind, fixed by it (Mother closes her two fists), that appeared to be inevitable to such an extent that those who had a living experience of the higher worlds thought that one must flee from the world, give up this material world if one wanted to live in [old p. 230]the truth (that is the basis of all these theories and faiths); but now it is no longer like that. The physical is capable of [new p. 230]receiving the higher Light, the Truth, the true Consciousness and of manifesting it.

It is not easy, it needs endurance and will, but a day will come when this will be quite natural. It is just, just the door opened--that is all, now one must go on.

(Silence)

Naturally, what was established clings and struggles desperately. That is the cause of all the trouble (gesture indicating the earthly atmosphere)--it has lost the game. It has lost the game.

(Silence)

It took... a little more than a year for this Consciousness [note: The superman consciousness, which manifested on 1 January 1969 (see the January 1969 conversations in this volume).] to win this victory. And still, naturally, it is not visible except to those who have the inner vision, but... but it is done.

(Long silence)

It was this, the work that Sri Aurobindo had given me. Now I understand.

But it is as if from all sides--all sides--these forces, these powers of the mind rose up in protest--in violent protest--to impose their old laws: "But it was always so!"... It is finished, however. It will not be always so. There!

(Silence)

Something of this battle had been going on in this body these last days.... It was really very interesting.... There was outside, [old p. 231]coming from outside, an attempt to submit the body to experiences in order to compel it to recognise: "No, what has always [new p. 231]been will always be; you may try, but it is an illusion", and so something happened, quite a little disorganisation in the body, and then the body answered with its attitude: a peace like this (gesture of immobility), and its attitude (gesture of hands open): "It is as Thou willest, Lord, as Thou willest."... Like a flash everything disappears! And this has happened several times, at least a dozen times in a day. Then--then the body begins to feel: "There it is!"... It has this delight, this delight of... having lived the Marvel. It is not as it was, it is no more as it was--it is no more as it was.

One has still to fight on, one must have patience, courage, will, confidence--but it is no more "like that"; it is the old thing that seeks to cling--hideous! hideous. But... it is no more like that, no more like that.

There!

(Silence)

And this also: how far, how far will the body be able to go? This also, it is... perfectly peaceful and happy: it is "What Thou willest."

(Long silence)

All the rest appears so old, so old, like something... belonging to a dead past--that seeks to resuscitate itself, but cannot any more.

And all, all, all the circumstances are as catastrophic as possible--the worries and complications and difficulties, all, all have risen up violently, like wild beasts, but... it is finished. The body knows that all this is finished. Perhaps it will take centuries, but it is finished. For it to disappear, that may take centuries, but now it is finished.

This realisation, altogether concrete and absolute, that one [old p. 232]could have only when one came out of Matter (Mother lowers a finger): it is sure, it is sure and certain one will have it even here.

(Long silence)

This is the fourteenth month since the Consciousness came--fourteenth month, twice seven.

(Silence)

This is the fourteenth?

Yes, the fourteenth.

Then, it is interesting.

(Silence)

How much he has worked since he left! Oh!... all the while, all the while.

(Silence)

It seems... it seems to be a miracle in the body. The disappearance of this formation seems truly miraculous.

And everything is getting clear.

We shall see.

(Long silence)

It was relatively quick.

(Silence)

Well... [new p. 233][old p. 233]

That is to say, it is now possible for every human consciousness with a little faith to come out of this hypnotism of the mind?

Yes, yes, exactly so. Exactly so.

Exactly so.

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 11, pp. 228-233