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All together, all of it together is a perfect unity, immutable and ... indissoluble. The creation is the separation of all that "makes up" this unity—we might call it the division of the consciousness—the division of the consciousness, which starts from unity conscious of its unity to arrive at unity conscious of its multiplicity IN UNITY.“ Even though the characteristics of the transformed body which Mother stated may seem “unbelievable“ from the viewpoint of today’s level of consciousness, in those times during which there was no respiration from the lungs, the idea of such breathing in the future would likewise also have seemed “unbelievable”. So the goal consists of unifying oneself with the supramental consciousness which is connected with a transformation of the physical body. The results of The Mother’s researches established that this goal cannot be reached in one step, that means, the leap from the normal consciousness of the body to the supramental consciousness is too big to be mastered in one step so that an intermediary step into the subtle-physical level is required. So The Mother was concerned with the formation of this body in the subtle-physical which she was able to do with the help of Sri Aurobindo. Her next goal was to incarnate this new form of being in her own physical body but this she was not able to achieve. This task is on the agenda for humankind, that means “we” have to resolve this question. Her teaching consists essentially in referring us to the necessity that the work has to take place in and through the physical body (right down to the cellular level) – and not as Sri Aurobindo surmised – through the development of a being on a higher Mind and soul level. |
On the 9th of Dec.1971 Satprem wrote a speech for the Indian radio station on the occasion of the centennial of Sri Aurobindo, in which he describes in unsurpassed manner Aurobindo's aims and which outstanding and important place the physical body occupies. Satprem ( to Page 17) Sometimes a great wandering Thought sees the ages still unaccomplished, seizes the Force in its eternal flow and precipitates upon earth the powerful vision, which is like a power of realizing what it sees. The world is a vision becoming real. Indeed its past and its present are not the result of an obscure impulse coming from the womb of time, of a slow accumulation of sediments which little by little mold us—and stifle us and imprison us. It is the powerful golden attraction of the future which draws us in spite of ourselves, as the sun draws the lotus from the mud, and forces us to a glory greater than any our mud or efforts or present triumphs could have foreseen or created. Sri Aurobindo is this vision and this power of precipitating the future into the present. What he saw in an instant the ages and millions of men will unwittingly accomplish. Unknowingly they will seek the new imperceptible quiver that has entered the earth's atmosphere. From age to age great beings come amongst us to hew a great opening of Truth in the sepulchre of the past. And in actuality, these beings are the great destroyers of the past. They come with the sword of Knowledge to shatter our fragile empires. |