It has become very interesting, but one can't speak... (Mother coughs) and it's better not to speak.The Mother
Agenda
Volume 11
February 25, 1970
It has become very interesting, but one can't speak... (Mother coughs) and it's better not to speak.
Very interesting.
I spent the whole of last night with Sri Aurobindo, but with a WORLD of explanations. He made me understand lots of things, but quite... well, extraordinary. And practical: on the present state of things.... Shouldn't speak, that's why I am coughing, it's on purpose (!)
It's extraordinarily interesting.
(silence)
A demonstration in detail of the difference between the two consciousnesses.
(silence)
Among other things and in a quite practical and positive way, he explained to me that the cause of all illnesses, all disorders, all conflicts, here in the material world, is that the two simultaneous movements (one is the movement of duration – what we could call Stability – and the other, the movement of transformation), the two movements in the original Consciousness are only one and not in contradiction; and I was shown how (not with the thought: with the consciousness), here, they are separate, and that's what is the cause of death. It's because they can't be in harmony – they don't KNOW how to be in harmony: they can, but they don't know. One is the movement of transformation, the other the movement of stability. When they are not in harmony, or not in harmony where they should be, it causes a break in equilibrium and the being dies – things die, everything dies because of that. But put that way, it makes no sense. It's the experience of the thing which is given.... And this also, the cough and all that – all of it, everything – it's so simple! So obvious once you have the experience.
We could say (almost) that if the two find their equilibrium of simultaneous existence, it re-creates the Divine.... He is in us, but not in harmony.1
(silence)
At least four hours with Sri Aurobindo last night.... Oh, extraordinary, extraordinary – showed everything, explained everything.
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Have you received yesterday's aphorism, the latest one?... I'll read, and then Sri Aurobindo will make me write. So I started writing on a prophetic tone! Have you seen it? I seem to be speaking to someone....
No, I have the one of the 23rd, the day before yesterday.
What is it?
Sri Aurobindo says that “the soul is naked and unashamed,”2 and you are asked, “Isn't the soul always pure?” So you reply:
“The soul wears no disguise, it shows itself as it is and cares nothing for people's judgement, because it is the faithful servant of the Divine whose home it is.”
No, that's not the one. I wrote like this, “You are...” (Mother tries to remember), anyway I don't know whom I speak to (“you” is singular), to humanity or the human being, I don't know.
But this one is fine: “The soul wears no disguise....” That's fine. It was so concrete how the human (especially mental) consciousness ALWAYS wears a disguise: you have to appear like this, you have to appear like that, you have to give this impression, you have to have that appearance – a disguise.
(meditation)
1 This experience seems to be the continuation of the one Mother spoke of in Agenda X of 19 November 1969: “Unity = power and repose combined.”
2 Aphorism 350 – “Only the soul that is naked and unashamed can be pure and innocent, even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity.”