INSPIRING QUOTES -AUROVILLE, THE CRADLE OF THE SUPERMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

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AUROVILLE: THE CRADLE OF THE SUPERMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
Excerpts from The Mother’s Agenda: January 1969 – March 1970

January 1, 1969
It came slowly in the night, and this morning when I woke up, there was a Golden Dawn, as it were, and the atmosphere was very light. The body felt, “Oh, it’s really… truly new”. A light, golden Light and… benevolent. Benevolent in the sense of a certitude – a harmonious certitude.”

January 4, 1969
Satprem: Is it something that’s going to permeate the bodies that are ready?

Yes… I think so, yes. I feel it’s the formation that’s going to permeate and express itself – permeate and express itself – in the bodies… which will be the bodies of the Supramental. Or maybe… maybe the superman? I don’t know. The intermediary between the two. Maybe the superman: it was very human, but a human of divine proportions, you understand. A human without weaknesses and shadows: it was all luminous – all light and smile and… sweetness at the same time.

Yes, maybe the superman.

January 8, 1969
And this descent of the superman consciousness…
Did I tell you I had afterwards identified it?

Satprem: When you spoke last time, you had identified it.

Yes, but I spoke of “supramental consciousness.”

Satprem: Later, you said, “Maybe the superman?”

Yes, that’s it. It’s the descent of the superman consciousness. I had the assurance of it afterwards.

It was on the 1st of January after midnight. I woke up at 2 in the morning, surrounded by a consciousness, but so concrete, and NEW, in the sense that I had never experienced that. It lasted, quite concrete and present, for two or three hours, and then it spread out and WENT TO FIND ALL THOSE WHO COULD RECEIVE IT. And at the same time I knew it was the consciousness of the superman, that is, the INTERMEDIARY between man and the supramental being.

January 18, 1969
There is in it a consciousness (something VERY precious) that gives lessons to the body, teaches it what it has to do, that is, the attitude it should have, the reaction it should have… I had already told you a few times how difficult it is to find the procedure of the transformation when there’s no one to give you indications; and it’s the response, as it were: “he” (Mother sometimes uses “he” to designate this consciousness.) comes and tells the body, “Have this attitude, do this, do that in that way.” So then the body is happy, it’s quite reassured, it can’t make a mistake anymore.

Very interesting.

It has come like a “mentor” – and PRACTICAL, wholly practical: “This is to be rejected; this is to be accepted; this is to be generalized; this for all inner movements. And it even becomes very material, in the sense that with certain vibrations, it says, “This is to be encouraged”; with others, “This is to be channeled”; with yet others, “This is to be got rid of…” Small indications of that sort.

And that’s also why (now that I see this experience), I see that the result is far more precise and concrete, because the mind and the vital aren’t there. Because it (this new consciousness) is taking their place. And with this whole tranquil assurance of knowledge that comes at the same time. It’s interesting.

January 22, 1969

I told you how I was surrounded (by a rampart) …. Oh, but this consciousness is very interesting! It gives me lessons all the time, it’s very interesting!
He gives me lessons during the night to tell me the things that must change, and with symbolic sounds to make me clearly understand: he makes me LIVE certain situations to know what needs to be changed – what he does is first-rate!
It’s going on in every detail. I can’t tell everything.
And it doesn’t just concern itself with individuals: it also concerns itself with events all over the world. I see that clearly because it intervenes in the action of this or that nation, I see that mostly at night.
It’s very active.

February 5, 1969
But it has a strong action, I mean it COMMANDS the action on earth, and it’s not subjected in any way or tied down to anything below: it’s like this (gesture of a descent imposing itself). And it constantly receives the Will or the Power of action from above – not “above,” it’s not above, it’s… (Mother makes a sort of gesture meaning it is “everywhere inside”)
“superior” in the true sense.

March 12, 1969
But this Consciousness which has manifested since the beginning of the year, it’s VERY active; it has spread about and is very active. You remember, I always used to say (the body used to say, that is) that it was very difficult without someone capable of helping it, and this Consciousness has fulfilled that function, it serves as a mentor – it teaches the body loads of things.

Really interesting. Things that the mind didn’t know, it teaches the body that way, the body is becoming a little clever!

March 22, 1969
Two days ago (not yesterday, the day before), this Consciousness told me something; I said, “Very well,” but it went on saying the same thing AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, until I’d written it down! So here it is (Mother holds out a note). And it explained to me why there was “we.”

“We will strive to make Auroville the cradle of the Superman”

Ah… it’s important news! (Mother smiles) So then, I said, “Why we’?” It answered, “It’s because the attempt will be to get those who will live in Auroville to COLLABORATE.” Then, once I’d written it, it left me in peace, but until I did, it came back again and again….

April 2, 1969
It’s wonderful, this Consciousness, it has such a way of seeing things! Really… really unique. I could say that my vision and my understanding of the world, of life, of everything, have completely changed, in a widening… Of course, I had worked constantly to get the widening, but this widening has shown itself to be full of something completely new, completely.

And there are two things mingled together: one is this sort of understanding and benevolent Smile, which is CONSTANT, whatever may be there, even the most stupid negations; and at the same time, underneath this benevolence (but “benevolence” is a weak word), there’s such a power! A TREMENDOUS POWER. TREMENDOUS… As if it were swollen with power. An almost concrete power, I don’t know (Mother feels the air)… it’s a light, but a light you could touch, as it were: if it goes through your fingers, it’s so concrete that you feel it go through. A deep golden light.

April 26, 1969
It (the Superman consciousness) made me write (Mother points to her note). I first wrote it without the first line: “To people of ill-will” I first wrote without putting any title, then it insisted, it said, “No, you must put it, it’s very important.”

“The harm you have caused willfully always comes back to you in one form or another. (said by the S.M. consciousness)

And, you understand, it’s something practical: it was DONE like that; he (Sri Aurobindo) showed me it was like that: “You do like this.” So if what he showed me is really now established in the world, IT MUST HAVE EXTRAORDINARY CONSEQUENCES.

May 3, 1969
Death, food and money: this Consciousness feels those are the three “awesome” things in human life, that human life revolves around those three things—eating, (laughing) dying, and having money—and to it, the three are… they are passing inventions which derive from a wholly transitory state that doesn’t correspond to anything very deep or very permanent.

August 30, 1969
Things are beginning to come for Auroville (Mother points to several written notes).

This I have told you several times:
“Auroville wants to be the cradle of the Superman”.

November 29, 1969

A rather interesting phenomenon has taken place …. The vital and the mind had gone away (occurred in 1962), and when the Consciousness worked in the body, it reconstituted a vital and a mind WITHIN the body itself. And that’s very interesting, because the body has taken extreme interest in learning lots of things: it has asked questions about external things, mathematical things, all those things that specifically belong to the mind. And it has learned them very easily—the PRINCIPLE of those things has been learned very easily. It immediately felt it needed to learn them.

December 17, 1969
Sri Aurobindo: “Certainly, when the Supramental does touch earth with a sufficient force to dig itself in into the earth consciousness, there will be no more chance of any success or survival for the Asuric Maya.”
(On Himself, 26.472)
October 18, 1934

It’s interesting because the Asura is now thrashing about just like someone who expects to disappear. That’s interesting ….

January 3, 1970
That’s what I have learned, in fact: the bankruptcy of religions was because they were divided—they wanted you to follow one religion to the exclusion of all others. And all human knowledge has gone bankrupt because it was exclusive. And man has gone bankrupt because he was exclusive.

What the New Consciousness wants (it insists on this) is: no more divisions. To be capable of understanding the extreme spiritual, the extreme material, and to find… to find the meeting point where… it becomes a true force.

March 14, 1970
Its time is over. And this Pressure of the (Superman) Consciousness is a pressure for things as they were—so miserable and so petty and so obscure and so… apparently inescapable at the same time—all of it was… (Mother gestures above her shoulder) behind, like an antiquated past.

So then, I really saw—saw, understood—that the work of this Consciousness (which is PITILESS, it’s not concerned whether it’s difficult or not, probably not even much concerned about apparent damage) is for the normal state to cease to be this thing which is so heavy, so obscure, so ugly—so low—and for the dawn to come… you know, something dawning on the horizon: a new Consciousness. That something truer and more luminous.

It’s the BODY’S experience. Before, those who had inner experiences would say, “Yes, up above, that’s the way it is, but here…” Now the “but here” will soon cease to be. This tremendous change is what’s being conquered, so PHYSICAL LIFE may be ruled by the HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS and not by the mental world. It’s the change of authority…. It’s difficult. It’s hard. It’s painful. There is some damage done, naturally, but… But truly, one can see—one can see. And that’s the REAL CHANGE, that’s what will enable the new Consciousness to express itself. And the body is learning, it’s learning its lesson—ALL BODIES, ALL BODIES.

(silence)

That was the old division made by the mind: “Above, things are very fine, you may have all experiences and everything is luminous and marvelous; here, nothing doing.” And the impression that when one is born, one is born again into the “hopeless world.” That explains, by the way, why all those who did not foresee the possibility of things being otherwise had said, “Better get out of here, and then…” All that has become so clear! But this change, the fact that it’s NO LONGER inescapable, that is the great VICTORY : it’s NO LONGER inescapable. You feel—feel and see, and the body itself has experienced—the possibility that soon, here too, things will be truer.
There is… THERE IS REALLY SOMETHING CHANGED IN THE WORLD.

(silence)

Naturally, for things to be truly established, it’s going to take time. That’s the battle going on. From every side, on every plane, there’s an onslaught of things coming to say outwardly, “Nothing has changed”—but it’s not true. It’s not true, the body knows it’s not true. And now it knows, it knows in what sense.

(silence)

Now I see, I see how his departure and his work so…so IMMENSE, you know, and constant in this subtle physical, how much, how much it has helped! How much he has (Mother gestures as if kneading Matter)… how much he has helped prepare things, CHANGE THE STRUCTURE OF THE PHYSICAL. All the experiences others had had of making contact with the higher worlds, used to leave the physical here as it is. (How should I put it?…) From the very beginning of existence up to Sri Aurobindo’s departure, I lived in the awareness that one may rise, one may know, one may have all experiences (and one did have them), but when one came back into this body… it was those for-mid-able old laws of the mind that ruled everything. So then, all these years have been years spent preparing and preparing—freeing oneself and preparing—and these last few days, it was… ah! the body PHYSICALLY noting that THINGS HAD CHANGED.
It has to be worked out, as they say, realized in every detail, but the change IS DONE—the change IS DONE.
Which means that the material conditions, which were elaborated by the mind, FIXED by it (Mother clenches her fist tight), and which appeared so inescapable, to such a point that those who had a living experience of the higher worlds thought one had to flee this world, abandon this material world if one really wanted to live in the Truth (that’s the cause of all those theories and beliefs), now things are no longer like that.

Now things are no longer like that. The physical is CAPABLE of receiving the higher Light, the Truth, the true Consciousness, and of man-i-fest-ing it. It’s not easy, it calls for endurance and will, but a day will come when it will be quite natural. It’s only just the open door—that’s all, now we have to go on.

(silence)

Naturally, what was established hangs on tight and defends itself desperately. That’s the cause of this whole trouble (swarming gesture in the earth atmosphere)—but it has lost the battle. It’s over. IT’S OVER .

(silence)

It has taken this (Superman) Consciousness a little more than a year to win this Victory. Naturally, as yet it’s visible only to those who have the inner vision, but… ITS DONE.
(long silence)
THAT WAS THE WORK Sri Aurobindo had given me, that was it.
NOW I UNDERSTAND.

But it’s as if from every side—every side—those mental forces, mental powers were rising in protest, violent in their protest, so as to impose their old laws: “But things have always been this way, they cry” But it’s over. They won’t always be this way, that’s all.

(long silence)

Something of this battle was going on in this body these last few days…. It’s really very interesting…. From outside, coming from outside, there was an effort to give the body experiences so as to force it to note for itself, “No, what has always been always will be; you may try, but it’s an illusion.” Then something would come, a nice little disorganization in the body, and it would respond with its attitude: a peace like (immutable gesture): “As You will, Lord, as You will….”—EVERYTHING DISAPPEARED AS IN A FLASH! And it happened several times (at least a dozen times in a day).

Then—then the body begins to feel, “There you are!…” It has that joy, that joy of… the lived Marvel (the realization of the Supramental Consciousness by her physical body). Things are not as they were, no longer as they were—things are NO LONGER as they were. We have to struggle on, we need patience, courage, will, trust—but things are no longer “just the way they are.” It’s the old thing trying to hang on tight—hideous! Hideous. But… it’s not like that anymore. It’s not like that anymore.

There.

(silence)

This too (the Mother’s body): how far, how far will the body be able to go? There too, it’s… PERFECTLY peaceful and happy: it will be as You will.

(long silence)

All the rest looks so old, so old, like something… that belongs to a dead past—which is trying to come back to life, but it can’t anymore.

And all, all circumstances are as catastrophic as they can be: troubles, complications, difficulties, everything, just everything goes at it relentlessly like that, like wild beasts, but… it’s over. The body KNOWS that it’s over. It may take centuries, but it’s over. To disappear, it may take centuries, but it’s over now.

This wholly concrete and absolute realization that one could have only when going out of Matter (Mother brings a finger down), it’s sure, sure and certain that we will have it RIGHT HERE.

(Mother looks at Satprem for a long time, then takes his hands)

It’s the fourteenth month since this (Superman) Consciousness came—fourteenth month: twice seven.

(silence)

Is today the 14th?

Satprem: Yes, the 14th.

So it’s interesting.

How Sri Aurobindo has worked since he left, oh!… All the time, all the time….

(silence)

It looks… it looks like a miracle in the body. The disappearance of this formation really looks miraculous. And everything becomes clear.
We’ll see.

(long silence)

Things have moved relatively fast. Good…

(silence)