The Winds of Wonder

The body has only one ambition

14 August 1971

The body increasingly feels in a concrete manner and, I could say, ACUTE manner that there is only ONE way to exist — in the Divine Consciousness. All the rest seems to it dangerous, unknown. To remain as though constantly bathed in the Divine Consciousness seems to the body the only way to exist. There is no other. That’s the attitude of the body.

It feels almost an acute sensation, that one can exist only in the Divine and be constantly concentrated upon the Divine. And that such is the transition to go towards something that is still …

I wouldn’t say a dream, but a wonder. THAT …

It has no need to know anything: it has a need of being entirely moulded, set in motion and used in every way by the Divine, and it has but one dream — to forget that it exists — to become spontaneously the expression of something … of something it calls the Divine, which is the only true thing.

I don’t “see” Sri Aurobindo — I feel his presence. It’s really a miracle that I survived his passing. The inner being wasn’t affected because that remained the way it was — the closeness, the intimacy remained the same — but the physical being. It’s a miracle it survived.

The body has only one ambition, that only the Divine exist and that it be … like something the Divine uses and is malleable and expressive. There’s a kind of prescience of a state in which there is only the Divine Consciousness.