The Winds of Wonder

About body and bodies

It is not sufficient that only the body of the Mother should have experiences; it should be for other bodies also. It is in that context she had occultly returned her mind and vital. She was asked about their exclusion: “Why do they have to be eliminated? Doesn’t the supramental consciousness act on them too?”

She answered: “Certainly supramental consciousness acts! It’s ALREADY been acting, for a long time. It’s because the body is used (was used) to obeying the vital and especially the mind, so it’s to change its habit, to make it obey the higher Consciousness alone, they had to be returned. It’s to make things go faster. But the process isn’t to be recommended for everybody!”

 With its habits the body has natural tendency for all kinds of demonstrations. It has a dramatic imagination: “it constantly feels it’s living catastrophes. But because the body has faith the catastrophe is turned into a realisation. It’s not just in imagination but it is in the FACT: a demonstration of the Power at work for all this. It is an experience.”

Yet there remains the question: “How is that experience to express itself materially?” For the body it is perfectly obvious: The experience remains for an hour, or two, or three, then “all of a sudden, brrff! all gone…. The body has apparently remained the same, in its appearance, but instead of an inner disorder that makes it suffer, everything is fine, and there’s a great peace, a great tranquillity—everything is fine. But that’s for ONE body—how does that act on others? It’s beginning to perceive the possibility in other consciousnesses. But it’s not constant, not general, it’s only to show it can be like that through the fact that it happens in one case or another—to show that things CAN be like that.”

What is necessary is to find relationship between the consciousness in ONE body and the consciousness of the whole. “And the extent of the dependence, and the extent of the independence; that is, how far the body can be transformed in its consciousness … without the transformation of the whole—how far? That remains to be discovered.”

The vision is very clear of the collective progress. No doubt progress has taken place on earth; “but if we go by the past, a tremendous length of time would still seem to be necessary for the whole to be ready to change. Yet there is almost a promise that.”

It is a growing experience for the body, but there is also its  fragility, — “both simultaneously—the sense of an eternity! the sense of having eternal existence. Both at the same time. It’s really a transitional period!” Naturally the body is “constantly pushing, pushing like that to catch hold of the secret; there’s a sort of lull in the aspiration: peace, peace, peace. But the experiences are innumerable, with all aspects. The body has absolutely wonderful moments—and HOURS of anguish. And all of a sudden, a wonderful moment, a moment can’t be expressed.”

21 December 1968