Cells Summary

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Tapping Into the Qualities of the Cell

However, the cells provide structure and permanence to the realizations of mind, vital and higher planes while also possess the divine qualities like aspiration, faith, consecration, certitude, sincerity, passive receptivity, goodwill. “this body is full of good will; it is filled with the psychic in every one of its cells. It's like a child. The other day, it cried out quite spontaneously, 'O my Sweet Lord, give me the time to realize You!' It did not ask to hasten the process, it did not ask to lighten its work; it only asked for enough TIME to do the work. 'Give me the time ” The cells are seized by the bad vibrations of the collectivity and good vibrations coming from higher and deeper realms. The cells become battle ground for these forces creating disharmony. The Mother said, “…there is no bad will in Matter, everything is inertia and ignorance: total ignorance of the Truth, ignorance of the Origin, ignorance of the Possibility…” The inertia and ignorance create disorganization and disorder. The disturbances from the vital and mental planes percolate to the physical consciousness and irritate the cells and organs. Another entity which is the origin of many disorders is the fear. The physical fear is the most difficult thing to conquer. The illness or disorders that are cured reside in subconscious part of the being and spring up from time to time causing the persistence or reemergence of diseases. Death is the phenomenon of decentralisation and dispersion of the cells which make up the physical body. The central will of the physical being abdicates its will to hold all the cells together. That is the first phenomenon. It accepts dissolution for one reason or another.

How to Transform the Cells?

The new consciousness (Supermind) can annihilate the difficulties of the matter and transform the cells after the psychic and spiritual transformation. For the transformation to happen, the physical consciousness has to be prepared through conscious exercise, right amount and right kind of food, Japa or Mantra chanting which has direct impact on the cells and offering to Divine. The mind has to made silent and an instrument of higher force and the vital movements has to calm down, then only the cells can receive the higher forces or the psychic influence. The cellular mind is the mind of ignorance which cling to old habits and keeps on repeating it. The best way to quieten it to do Japa or chant mantra. The Mother said, “That is precisely what the transformation of the body is: the physical cells not only become conscious, but receptive to the true Consciousness-Force; that is, they allow the working of this higher Consciousness. That is the work of transformation.”

“Of course a certain preliminary transformation is necessary, just as the psychic and spiritual transformation precedes the supramental. But this is a change of the physical consciousness down to the submerged consciousness of the cells so that they may respond to higher forces and admit them and to a certain extent a change or at least a greater plasticity in the processes. The rules of food etc. are meant to help that by minimising obstacles. How far this involves a change of the chemical constitution of the body I cannot say. It seems to me still that whatever preparatory changes there may be, it is only the action of the supramental Force that can confirm and complete them.” “This transformation by the help of the mind―by self-analysis―is a first step; afterwards, it is necessary to transform the vital impulses: that is much more difficult, and especially to transform the physical. Every cell in our bodies must become conscious. This is the work I am doing here; it will enable the conquest of death. That is another story; that will be the humanity of the future, perhaps after hundreds of years, perhaps sooner. It will depend on men, on nations.”

“…One must first transform his thought, all his mind, all his mental activity, organise it with higher knowledge; and at the same time one must transform his character, all the movements of the vital, all impulses, all reactions. And finally, when these two things are done, in any case up to a certain point, one can begin to think of transforming the cells of his body, but not begin at the end; one must begin at the beginning.”

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