Contents

The material difficulties are aggravated

One must have endurance

Pessimism of the material consciousness

Matter to be transformed, not annulled

Call of the cells

Cells: a will to keep together

Power of rejection in the cells

Inertia not a quality essential to Matter

Mental constructions block receptivity

No need of formula of a Divine

12 January 1965

Bombardment by adverse forces

“No right to exteriorise myself”

Body must change from within

Experiencing origin of inspirations and movements

Teach body to remain immobile

Aspiration and acceptance of supreme will in the cells

Cells experiencing transition

Transfer of power

Organisation of material mind

New way of perceiving

Organisation of material mind

Physical mind and material, cellular mind

Critical period during transfer of power

27 November 1965

Pulling at the Supramental

The vital and the Truth

Vision of humanity and the new creation

Effort of transformation reduced to small number

Humanity under the supramental influence

Period of transition painful

Impatience to “prepare” humanity has disappeared

Superior humanity with a human harmony

No stress for premature transformation

Sex, food and beings of transition

Body not ready to exist without food

Each one is what he must be

22 January 1966

Experience of life as expression of choice

Unreality of necessity and fatality

Illusion of life

Power to change circumstances

Transition to conscious functioning of the body

Habits of thousands of years to be changed

Acting on difficulties of the world

LSD experiences

Subjectivity of vital images

Man’s relation with other worlds and beings

Man: potential master of all states

Man and the gods

The Supreme is the one reality

28 September 1966

Suffering pulls Matter out of inertia

Intensifying aspiration of the cells

Divine compassion

True use of thought

Suffering, progress and transforming action

The content of Ananda

30 September 1966

References to physical transformation: a letter Sri Aurobindo

Passage from man to new physical being

Transformation not isolated from the world

Safety of the new beings

Spontaneous immortality not possible for present

11 January 1967

Without ego, feeling of insult impossible

Physical reaction to injury

Ego as an impersonal entity

Mother and the actions of others

The Lord laughs

21 January 1967

The cells are becoming conscious

Perception of true Matter

Replacing the physical ego

The body no longer resists

Approaches to transformation

After death: contact with physical life

Defining the Divine

Transition to a body moved by divine Presence and Consciousness

Transformation of man, or a new being?

Intermediary beings

Weight of habits, pessimism, earth atmosphere

Battle fought in the body

Material contagion

The “good” and the True, the Truth

Realisation of the supreme vision in the mixed material world

Man’s vision is incomplete

Progressive manifestation

Suffering: progress in the presence of Inconscience

Progress in joy and harmony

Experience in a place where material life gets re-organised

Translation and memory of subtle experiences

Madness and insincerity

Changing matter

The condition for transformation

15 November 1967

Matter as it is and divine existence

Inconscient must become conscious in divine way

Too rapid manifestation would dissolve earth

This instrument made to realise, not reveal

No stopping to tell the story

New Christs, Kalkis, Supermen

Aspiration in central consciousness of body

Cells feeling of living in eternity

The obscure work

22 November 1967

Prayer of the cells of the body

Now the body wants to participate

What is done in a single body can be done in all bodies

Awakening consciousness in the cells

A bodily consciousness independent of the vital and mental

Physical (material) mind converted

Mind and vital withdrawn

Body to become base for divine life

Change in consciousness of body far from manifesting externally

Material cells must receive and manifest consciousness

Stages in transformation

Superhuman being may pass unperceived

Artists and musicians: independent body consciousness

It is the body that aspires

Body rebuilt as a conscious being

Body has direct contact without any intermediary

Capacity to pass experience on to other bodies

Conversations among the cells

29 November 1967

Feeling of being a different person at each Darshan

Single consciousness can manifest in two bodies

Many beings, forces, personalities manifest through this body

Darshan of the 24th November

30 December 1967

Governance of body: intelligence replaced by spiritual consciousness

Laws of nature have lost their despotism

Only That exists

In the material consciousness knowledge brings power

The “why” of suffering and evil

Creation of equilibrium

Fusion of opposites

Realisation for which universe created

Frailty of and eternity of the form

Onrush of a new creation

Visions of the future world

Questions by the body about Matter

Cells want contact with the true being

Penetration of supramental forces into the body

Mental and vital: passing instruments for grinding Matter

Perception of soul states

Most wonderful hours that one can have on earth

Vision of temples with living deities

Body experiences all states of consciousness

25 September 1968

Self-deception in good faith

Psychic cannot deceive, but lacks mental precision

Each acts according to his own limited consciousness

Problem of identification with the Supreme

Supramental being essentially different

Direct contact of psychic being with substance of the body

Valuation of vibrations

Mental precision, vital intensity and the Supramental

23 November 1968

Everything pervaded by divine presence

No new religions

“I have lived all the horrors of creation”

Changing the physical fact

Concentrating the Presence when seeing people

Notion of “descent”

There is nothing but the Lord

27 November 1968

The body’s knowledge through consciousness

Surrender of the body

What has caused separation?

Suffering and Ananda

21 December 1968

Mind and vital eliminated

The body left to itself

Rapid reversal of consciousness in the body

Can one body be transformed alone?

Time needed for collective change

Possibility of sudden change

Fragility simultaneous with feeling of eternity

Wonderful moments, hours of suffering

Superman consciousness

Superman consciousness: smiling, benevolent

Superman consciousness identified

18 January 1969

Superman consciousness: a mentor and protecting power

15 February 1969

Superman consciousness: a mentor of the body

Superman consciousness: no half measures

22 February 1969

The immobility of the Inconscient

Individuality and separation

Body experiences all states of consciousness

Next step of creation: return to the True Consciousness

State of being automatically one with Supreme Consciousness

Body knows that death is no escape

The “why” of suffering

Perfect acceptance

Only solution: direct contact of the physical with the Supreme

The body has taken its stand

Confusion in the world

Body experiencing the misery of the world

Misery of the world: beyond the Buddhist solution

Earth is in this unreal Falsehood

Hell: an image of this state of consciousness

Escape worth nothing: solution here

Falsehood concentrated on earth

Experience of the unreality of life

The confusion is there to teach us

The exact indication of what to do

Constancy of the physical

18 October 1969

Body too used to obeying mind

“My mind has been sent away”

Body’s passivity needed to receive the force

Conscious immobility

Inertia and creation

Immobility with an intense aspiration

The supramental vibration

Understanding the why and how of creation

Consciousness of immortality in the body

19 November 1969

The why and how of creation

Unity and opposites

Separation and evolution

A clear vision: everything has its place

Time and equilibrium

Unity = power and rest combined

The individual centre of perception

The supramental consciousness

Supramental consciousness: must change appearances gradually

Grace acts so all may go as quickly as possible

Supramental consciousness: Truth imposes itself without pressure

Supramental consciousness: perception of perfection at each instant

Body’s experience of supramental consciousness

10 December 1969

Condition depends upon state of consciousness

Man must perfect himself without waiting for others

13 December 1969

Aphorisms of Sri Aurobindo

Idea of good and bad prevents offering

Writing letters dictated by the Consciousness

Ego must disappear

Humanity clings in order to climb

27 December 1969

Everything comes to make you go forward

Physical experience uncertain source of knowledge

Non-intervention in the work of the Lord

Condition changes with attitude of consciousness

Presence of death and immortality

Body must be prepared to bear impact of experience

31 January 1970

everything has been decided

Remnants of Falsehood cause of all ailing

Consciousness of totality and smallest detail

Body’s experience of death without dying

Change-over of authority in body and in nations

Individuals more sensitive as time of transition approaches

Sri Aurobindo’s Aphorisms

Mental construction makes you by-pass the truth

The Action of the new consciousness

The body has truly changed

Change-over of authority: transition sometimes painful

Physical determinism no longer inevitable

Sri Aurobindo’s work in subtle physical

Change is done; details to be worked out

Victory of the superman consciousness

Battle in this body

Mind is the greatest difficulty

Mental expression of experience inadequate

Change of attitude changes suffering to bliss

Explanation of experience inadequate

Psychic being will materialise as supramental being

Only what is not in accordance with Truth will be abolished

The Consciousness working for sincerity

Body wants to go to school

Relations with others

Body without sense of personal limitation

New organisation of the body

11 January 1971

Physical sight and hearing replaced by identification by consciousness

16 January 1971

Experience during paralysis of leg

“I have changed very much”

Something in physical world not yet opened to the divine vibration

Matter being prepared to receive

New way of seeing and hearing

Struggle against people who come here to be comfortable

World in turmoil: one must rise above

Find the Divine in the world as it is

Possibility of success

To be a limpid transmitter

Catastrophe or true victory

Pessimism is the demon’s weapon

Decisive victory over adverse forces

Onrush of Falsehood

Body knows it exists only through the Divine

Time of ego has passed

If the Supreme destroyed Falsehood, there would be no world any more

Vanity, deception

Cling to the Divine

Body knows what is going to happen

Universalisation of the body

“I am beginning to know what is going to happen”

Human consciousness deforms divine Action

Passage from this life to that Life

Ways of seeing the world

Nestle in the Divine

A dream veiling a Reality

1 September 1971

To exist only through the Divine

The converted physical will be solid

To create a physical capable of bearing the power

Appearance will be the last to change

What refuses to receive must fall away

29 September 1971

Illness is a falsehood

16 October 1971

Body’s condition depends on how it is linked to the Divine

Become conscious that all is divine

30 October 1971

A consciousness at the same time individual and global

Consciousness clear; can the body follow?

17 November 1971

Consciousness no longer a point but in all things

18 December 1971

Physical (body-) mind is being converted

“I have become another person”

The psychic and the transition

Body has given itself entirely

New way of seeing and hearing

Surrender and trust

One may live, die or live eternally

22 December 1971

Physical (body-) mind and the Supramental

Introduce faith into the subconscient

25 December 1971

We create difficulties

Things change physically according to attitude

Everything is a phenomenon of consciousness

The Divine Consciousness

Goal of creation

9 February 1972

Unified and un-unified consciousness

26 February 1972

The physical (body-) mind

Enveloped by the Divine

A pressure for progress

The egoism of Matter

Body never stable unless linked truly to the Divine

Take the right attitude and the thing is done

Resistance of the subconscient

“I had a body altogether new”

Mother’s new body

“We are here to prepare the way for the new creation”

“I am not old”

“Tell your ego: ‘your hour is gone.’ ”

Human stupidity

Resistance of the subconscient

To be conscious of the Divine surpasses everything

To be a child sitting upon the mind and playing

What is good is getting better; what is bad is getting worse

Values have intensified

Whole creation must want nothing but the Divine

Power of the Supramental

Truly a new world

The reign of ego must be ended

Descent of the supramental world

Consciousness replacing thought

The true attitude and the imbecility of matter

“What Thou willest”—only refuge

25 October 1972

Subconscient contradictions rising up

To forget the Divine momentarily spells catastrophe

The Divine must do the battling

An image for fixing one’s attention

4 November 1972

The beatitude ready for us

Nestle within the Divine

8 November 1972

The supramental consciousness

Activity in perfect peace

20 December 1972

30 December 1972

Two extremes at the same time

The body has one prayer

7 February 1973

Only one solution for Falsehood

“What Thou willest”

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