A letter of Sri Aurobindo was read to me in which he said that for the
Supramental to be fixed here (he had seen that the Supramental came into him and
then it withdrew, and then it came back again and again withdrew—it was
not stable); for it to become stable it must enter and settle itself in the
physical mind.fnMother may be referring to a passage like the
following:
“There is too an
obscure mind of the body, of the very cells, molecules, corpuscles.
Haeckel, the German materialist, spoke somewhere of the will in the
atom, and recent science, dealing with the incalculable individual
variation in the activity of the electrons, comes near to perceiving
that this is not a figure but the shadow thrown by a secret reality.
This body-mind is a very tangible truth; owing to its obscurity and
mechanical clinging to past movements and facile oblivion and rejection
of the new, we find in it one of the chief obstacles to permeation by
the supermind Force and the transformation of the functioning of the
body. On the other hand, once effectively converted, it will be one of
the most precious instruments for the stabilisation of the supramental
Light and Force in material Nature.”
Letters on Yoga, Cent. Vol. 22,
p. 340 It is this work which is being done in
me for months now: the mind has been withdrawn and the physical mind has taken
its place, and precisely, for some time, I have noticed that it was… (I
was telling you that it was seeing everything in a different way, that its
relation with things was different), I have noticed that this physical mind, the
mind that is in the body, became wide, it had a global view of things, and its
entire way of seeing was absolutely different. I have seen, it is this: the
Supramental is at work there. I am passing through extraordinary hours.
What is happening is that it is only things that resist—one feels (I have already told you) that it is as though at every moment (and it is becoming stronger and stronger), at every moment: Do you want life, do you want death; do you want life, do you want death?… And it is like that. And then, life, it is union with the Supreme, and the consciousness, an altogether new consciousness comes. And it is this way, it is that way 285[Mother makes a gesture of tilting from one side to the other]. But yesterday or the day before, I do not know, all of a sudden the body said: No! It is finished—I want life, I want nothing else. And since then, things are getting better.
Oh! Volumes would be needed to narrate what is happening.… It is… extraordinarily interesting and altogether new. New altogether.
[Mother goes deep within.]
Because of physical death, the subconscient is a defeatist. Well, the subconscient has the feeling that whatever be the progress, whatever the effort, it will always end by that, because till today it has always ended that way. So the work that is being done is to try to introduce faith, the certitude of transformation, into the subconscient. And that… it is a struggle of every moment.