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The body consciousness. What is the body consciousness? The vital consciousness, of course—the physical consciousness as a whole. But then, in this physical consciousness as a whole, there is the physical mind—a mind that is occupied with all the ordinary things and responds to everything around you. There is also the vital consciousness, which is the awareness of sensations, impulses, enthusiasms and desires. Finally, there is the physical consciousness itself, the material consciousness, the body consciousness, and that is the one which has so far never been entirely transformed. The global, overall consciousness of the body has been transformed, that is, one can throw off the bondage of thought, of habits that one no longer considers inevitable. That can change, it has been changed. But what remains to be changed is the consciousness of the cells. There is a consciousness in the cells: it is what we call the “body consciousness” and it is wholly bound up with the body.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/6-january-1951#p5,p6</ref>

The physical consciousness? It opens just like the rest, receives a new consciousness, obeys the Force, feels a change even in the cells, aspires to and seeks self-giving and union with the Divine. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p15</ref><center>~</center>As to the gross material part it is not necessary to specify its place, for that is obvious, but it must be remembered that this too has a consciousness of its own, the obscure consciousness proper to the limbs, cells, tissues, glands, organs. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p10p9</ref>

=What are =Cells?==

The cells have an inner composition or structure which corresponds to the structure of the universe. So the link is established between identical external and internal states.... It is not "external", but it is external for the individual. That is, the cellcells are an already very developed thing, in its internal composition, receives the vibration sense that they are a form of the corresponding state LIFE in the composition Matter; they are a form of the whole. Each cell is composed of different radianceslife, with a wholly luminous centrethey’re not purely material, and the connection is established between light and light. That is, the will, the central light, acts on the cell by touching the corresponding lights, by an inner contact of the being. Each cell is a world in miniature corresponding to the wholeinert Matter…. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1205/mothers-action-in-a-class-of-children-aged-sixteenaugust-to26-eighteen1964#p44p64</ref>

... just Just as there is an individual consciousness, there is a group consciousness and a consciousness of the system, a universal consciousness which is made up of the set of all the consciousnesses composing it, plus something, something—something more subtle. Just like you: you have lots of cells in your body; each cell has its own consciousness and you have a consciousness which is the consciousness of your total individuality, though made up of all these small cellular consciousnesses. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/13-july-1955#p6</ref><center>~</center>In ourselves there is such a vital consciousness which acts in the cells of the body and the automatic vital functions so that we go through purposeful movements and obey attractions and repulsions to which our mind is a stranger. In animals this vital consciousness is an even more important factor. In plants it is intuitively evident. The seekings and shrinkings of the plant, its pleasure and pain, its sleep and its wakefulness … are all movements of consciousness, but, as far as we can see, not of mentality. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/conscious-force#p16</ref><center>~</center>''Q. Where is the connection between the central will of the physical being and the cells established? And how?

==Vital’s Influence ''A:'' The cells have an inner composition or structure which corresponds to the structure of the universe. So the link is established between identical external and internal states.... It is not "external", but it is external for the individual. That is, the cell, in its internal composition, receives the vibration of the corresponding state in the composition of the whole. Each cell is composed of different radiances, with a wholly luminous centre, and the connection is established between light and light. That is, the will, the central light, acts on Cells ==the cell by touching the corresponding lights, by an inner contact of the being. Each cell is a world in miniature corresponding to the whole.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mothers-action-in-a-class-of-children-aged-sixteen-to-eighteen#p44</ref>

In ourselves there ==Cellular Mind== It [''that mind which has all sorts of fears and worries, which sees the worst, repeats the same things forever''] is such a vital consciousness which acts in the cells most unconscious part of the body physical mind, and that’s what connects the automatic vital functions so that we go through purposeful movements and obey attractions and repulsions to which our physical mind is a strangerwith this material substance. In animals this vital consciousness is But that’s already an even more important factor. In plants it organized mind, you understand? It is intuitively evident. The seekings and shrinkings of the plant, its pleasure and pain, its sleep and its wakefulness … but, as far as we can seemost material part, not of mentality. There is then a sub-mental, a vital consciousness which has precisely the same initial reactions as one that borders on the mental, but is different in the constitution of its self-experiencemind… (what can we call this mind?), we can’t even as that which call it “corporeal mind”: it is superconscient is in the constitution mind of its self-experience different from the mental being. <ref>http://incarnatewordcells, a cellular mind.in/cwsa/21/conscious-force#p16</ref>

== Equality This cellular mind exists in animals, and there is even a faint beginning (but very faint, like a promise) in plants: they respond to a mental action. They respond. As soon as Life manifests, there is already the beginning, like a promise of mind, of mental movement. And in animals, it's very clear. Whereas that physical mind really began to exist only in man. That's what a very small child already has: it already has a physical mind; so that no two very small children are alike, with identical reactions: there is already a difference. And it is especially what is given you with the special FORM of your body, by atavism, and then fully developed by education. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/august-31-1965#p6,p7</ref><center>~</center>Mind for instance is everywhere. The physical mind is technically placed below the vital and yet it is a prolongation of the mind proper and can act in its own sphere by direct touch with the higher mental intelligence. And there is too an obscure mind of the body, of the very cells, molecules, corpuscles. Haeckel, the German materialist, spoke somewhere of the will in the atom, and recent Science, dealing with the incalculable individual variation in the activity of the electrons, comes near to perceiving that this is not a figure but the shadow thrown by a secret reality. This body-mind is a very tangible truth; owing to its obscurity and mechanical clinging to past movements and facile oblivion and rejection of the new, we find in it one of the chief obstacles to permeation by the supermind force and the transformation of the functioning of the body. On the other hand, once effectively converted, it will be one of the most precious instruments for the stabilisation of the supramental light and force in material Nature. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p13</ref><center>~</center>The near totality of the body’s movements are movements of habit. Behind, there is the consciousness of the physical mind (what I call the “cellular mind”) which is constantly conscious of the divine Presence and anxious to allow nothing but That; then a whole work is going on to change, to shift the origin of movements. I mean that instead of them being just automatic; out of habit, the divine Consciousness and Presence automatically makes the movements (''Mother makes the gesture of forcing the consciousness into the body'').But it’s quite … quite inexpressible, that is, as soon as you try to express it, it becomes mentalized, it’s no longer the Cells ==thing. That’s why it’s very difficult to express. I can’t speak of it.

The essential "But I" sense disappears when there is the stable realisation of the one universal Self in all think I told you not long ago about that habit and that remains at all moments in all conditions under any circumstances. Usually this comes first taste for drama in the Purusha most material consciousness and the extension to . That was the Prakriti movements is not immediate… Most Vedantists stop there, because they think that those reactions will fall away from one at death and all will disappear into the Onestarting point. But for a change of the nature it is necessary As soon as that the experience and seeing of the Purusha should spread to all the parts, mind, vital, physicalpart became conscious, subconscient. Then the ego movements of Prakriti can also disappear gradually from one field after another till none is left. For this a perfect samata even in the cells of the body and in every vibration of the being is necessary—samaṁ hi brahma… The individual remains but that is not the small separative egohabit became alien, but a form and power of the Universal which feels itself one with all beingsso to say, an acting centre and instrument of alien to the Universal Transcendenttrue consciousness, full of so the Ananda of the presence and the action but not thinking or moving independently or acting for its own saketransfer is now taking place. That cannot be called egoism. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/experiences-of-the-self-the-one-and-the-infinite#p25</ref>

This cellular mind exists in animalsIt means fighting against a millennial habit, and there you understand. It’s the automatism of the material consciousness which is even a faint beginning (but very faint, like yes, dramatic, almost catastrophic; sometimes dramatic and dramatic while imagining a promise) in plants: they respond to a mental actionconclusion that undoes the drama... And in animalsBut as soon as you express it all, it's very clearbecomes much too concrete. Whereas that physical mind really began It’s better not to exist only in man. That's what a very small child already has: talk about it already has a physical mind; so that no two very small children are alike, with identical reactions: there is already a difference. And it is especially what is given you with the special FORM of your body, by atavism, and then fully developed by education.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0608/augustjune-3124-19651967#p7p2,p3,p4,p5,p6</ref>

That isn't ...this aspiration here [in the physical mind. The physical cellular mind], oh, it's has a long time sincepower—a power of realization—quite an extraordinary power.If this becomes organized, it will be possible to do something.There is an accumulated power there. <ref>https://incarnateword. in/agenda/06/july-21-1965#p35</ref>It is the material mind—not even the material mind: the mind OF MATTER. It is the mental substance that belongs to Matter itself, to the cells. That's what was formerly called "the spirit of the form," when it was said that mummies kept their bodies intact as long as the spirit of the form persisted. That's the mind I mean, that completely material mind. The other one, the physical mind, has been organized for a long time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/august-31-1965#p2</ref><center>~</center>No, It is the physical mind, as soon as you do that was like an integral yogauncoordinated substance, you are obliged to deal with ita constant, while this material, cellular mind, I can assure you that itunorganized activity (''Mother gestures to show a constant tremor''s absolutely new! Absolutely new). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/august-31-1965#p8</ref><center>~</center>Mind for instance This is the mind which is everywherebeing organized. The physical mind That’s what is technically placed below the vital and yet important, because Sri Aurobindo said it is a prolongation of the mind proper was unorganizable and can act in its own sphere by direct touch with the higher mental intelligenceonly thing to do was to reject it from existence. And there I was under that impression, too. But when the transforming action on the cells is too an obscure constant, this material mind of begins to become organized, that’s the bodywonderful thing! It begins to become organized. And then, of as it becomes organized, it learns to FALL SILENT—that’s the very cellsbeautiful thing! It learns to keep calm, moleculessilent, corpusclesand to let the supreme Force act without interfering.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2806/theaugust-vital31-being-and-vital-consciousness1965#p16p7,p9</ref>

In All other Yogas regard this life as an illusion or a passing phase; the supramental Yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the last part, what he calls life and the "cellular level" body for its object. The supramental is indeed simply the description—ONE description—of cellular phenomena Truth-Consciousness and activities on their level what it brings in its descent is the full truth of consciousnesslife, and also on the level full truth of consciousness in Matter...The utmost Ananda the body and life are now capable of is a brief excitement of the infinitesimal. He speaks of "great currents" and "cellular transformations" vital mind or the nerves or the cells which is limited, imperfect and soon passes; with the supramental change all that; it's quite correctthe cells, nerves, vital forces, embodied mental forces can become filled with a thousand fold Ananda, onlycapable of an intensity of bliss which passes description and which need not fade away.... ButThe supramental love means an intense unity of soul with soul, for examplemind with mind, life with life, and an entire flooding of the body consciousness with the physical experience of oneness, after all this discipline the presence of the cells that there has been for... several years nowBeloved in every part, his description strikes me as in every cell of the same thing SEEN THROUGH AN ILLUSIONbody... With the supramental change, the importance of every event and every very thingon which you insist, changes completely when you have the sense possibility of the Whole, and what appears frightening or catastrophic or marvellous becomes again just a part free physical meeting of the Whole. It's embodied Divine with the sense sadhak without conflict of equilibrium forces and without undesirable reactions becomes possible, assured and free. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0829/aprilbhakti-15yoga-and-1967vaishnavism#p21p37</ref>

"Knowledge" means what? If you have knowledge—the internal knowledge The gnosis is the effective principle of the cellsSpirit, a highest dynamism of their the spiritual existence. The gnostic individual would be the consummation of the spiritual man; his whole way of being, their compositionthinking, living, acting would be governed by the power of a vast universal spirituality… He would feel the results presence of the blowDivine in every centre of his consciousness, that isin every vibration of his life-force, in every cell of his body. In all the effect workings of his force of Nature he would be aware of the blow on workings of the cellssupreme World-Mother, the Supernature; he would see his natural being as the becoming and if at manifestation of the power of the same time you have World-Mother.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the knowledge -gnostic-being#p8</ref> ==Death== Death is the phenomenon of what these decentralisation and dispersion of the cells ought to be which make up the physical body.  The consciousness is, by its very nature, immortal, and how they ought to react in order to manifest in the blow they receivephysical world, instead it assumes more or less lasting material forms. The material substance is in course of transformation in order to become a process like that multiform and increasingly perfect and lasting mode of physical nature, which takes hours or days or months to mend something that is damaged, you can do it immediatelyexpression for this consciousness. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0612/18mothers-augustaction-1954in-a-class-of-children-aged-sixteen-to-eighteen#p37p17,p18,p19</ref>

All other Yogas regard this life as an illusion or With a passing phase; whole world of perceptions at the supramental Yoga alone regards it as same time (''Mother makes a thing created by the Divine for gesture around her''), like a progressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the body for its object.The supramental is simply the Truth-Consciousness and what general terrestrial consciousness, with examples showing that it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, 's only when the full truth of consciousness contained in Matter...The utmost Ananda the body and life are now capable of cells is a brief excitement of the vital mind or the nerves or the cells which decentralized that one is limiteddead. Otherwise, nothing, imperfect and soon passes; with not even the supramental change all the cells, nervesheart stopping, vital forces, embodied mental forces can become filled with a thousand fold Ananda, capable of an intensity of bliss which passes description and which need not fade awaycause death. ..The supramental love means an intense unity of soul with soul Naturally, mind with mindthis decentralization stems from innumerable causes, life with lifebut they are causes we might call psychological. And the cells contained in the body, and an entire flooding of or composing the body consciousness with the physical experience of oneness, the presence are held in form by a centralization of the Beloved consciousness in every partthem, in every cell and as long as that power of concentration is there, the bodycannot die... With the supramental change, the very thing on which you insist, It’s only when the possibility power of concentration disappears that the free physical meeting of cells scatter. And then one dies. Then the embodied Divine with the sadhak without conflict of forces and without undesirable reactions becomes possible, assured and freebody dies. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2910/bhaktidecember-yoga17-and-vaishnavism1969#p42p7,p8</ref>

The gnosis is I used the effective principle word dispersion of the Spiritcells in its most concrete sense. When the concentration which forms the body comes to an end and the body dissolves, a highest dynamism of all the spiritual existence. The gnostic individual would be the consummation cells that have been especially developed and have become conscious of the spiritual man; his whole way of beingdivine Presence within them, thinkingare scattered and enter other combinations in which they awaken, livingby contagion, acting would be governed by the power consciousness of a vast universal spirituality… He would feel the presence of the Divine Presence that each one has had. And in every centre this way, by this phenomenon of his consciousnessconcentration, in every vibration of his life-forcedevelopment and dispersion, in every cell of his body. In all matter evolves and learns by contagion, develops by contagion, has the workings of his force of Nature he would be aware of the workings of the supreme World-Motherexperience by contagion. Naturally, the Supernature; he would see his natural being as cell dissolves with the becoming and manifestation of body. It is the power consciousness of the World-Mothercells that enters other combinations. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2212/themothers-action-in-a-class-of-children-aged-sixteen-gnosticto-beingeighteen#p8p36,p37</ref>

==Death at Why Is Cellular Level=Transformation Important?=

Death For this transformation to succeed, all human beings—even all living beings as well as their material environment—must be transformed. Otherwise things will remain as they are: an individual experience cannot change terrestrial life. This is the phenomenon essential difference between the old idea of decentralisation transformation—that is, the becoming conscious with the psychic being and the inner life—and transformation as we conceive it and dispersion speak of the cells which make up the physical bodyit. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mothers-action-in-Not only an individual or a-class-group of individuals or even all individuals, but life, the overall consciousness of-children-aged-sixteen-this more or less developed material life, have to-eighteen#p17</ref><center>~</center>With be transformed. Without such a whole world of perceptions at transformation we shall have the same time (''Mother makes a gesture around her'')misery, like a general terrestrial consciousness, with examples showing that it's only when the consciousness contained same calamities and the same atrocities in the cells is decentralized that one is dead. Otherwise, nothing, not even the heart stopping, can cause death. <ref>http://incarnatewordworld.in/agenda/10/december-17-1969#p7</ref>Naturally, this decentralization stems A few individuals will escape from innumerable causesit by their psychic development, but they are causes we might call psychological. And the cells contained general mass will remain in the body, or composing the body, are held in form by a centralization same state of the consciousness in them, and as long as that power of concentration is there, the body cannot die. It's only when the power of concentration disappears that the cells scatter. And then one dies. Then the body diesmisery. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1015/december6-17january-19691951#p8</ref>

=Why Is Cellular Transformation Important?=To Make the Body Conscious==

In spite The molecular, cellular substance…perhaps even the cellular…the molecular and atomic, is progressing in its capacity to express the divine Force and Consciousness. Through all these organisms this substance becomes more and more conscious, more and more luminous, more and more receptive, until it reaches a perfection sufficient for it to become a possible vehicle for the divine Force itself which will be able to use it as it uses the elements of the other parts of everythingthe creation, like the mind or the vital. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/28-december-1955#p33</ref><center>~</center>To make this obscurity luminous and directly instrumental to the higher planes and to the divine movement is what we mean in our Yoga by making the body doesn't have that sort conscious,—that is to say, full of eternal stabilitya true, the sense awake and responsive awareness instead of its immortality (immortality isn't own obscure, limited half-subconscience. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p9</ref><center>~</center>In the right word)body there are invaluable and unknown treasures. In all its cells, there is an intensity of its permanence. Not that it has a sense life, of impermanenceaspiration, far from itof the will to progress, the cells feel eternal—that much is therewhich one does not usually even realise. But a certain "something" that The body-consciousness would have to be sheltered from all attacks. It still feels completely warped by the action of the attacks. It feels an instability, mind and vital for it doesn't not to have a sense of absolute securityan immediate will to re-establish the equilibrium. When this will is not there, it hasn't yet reached a state means that the entire body-consciousness has been spoilt by the intervention of absolute security—that's it: the sense of securitymind and vital. There are still vibrations In people who cherish their malady more or less subconsciously with a sort of insecurity. morbidity under the vibration of insecurity—it still existspretext that it makes them interesting, it is not their body at all—poor body!—it is something they have imposed upon it with a mental or vital perversion. The body finds that disquieting, painful: "Why?" Not that if left to itself, is remarkable, for, not only does it complains, aspire for equilibrium and well-being but it complains about is capable of restoring the balance. If one leaves one's body alone without intervening with all those thoughts, all the vital reactions, all the depressions, and also all the so-called knowledge and mental constructions and fears—if one leaves the body to itself, spontaneously it finds will do what is necessary to set itself not up to the markright again. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0406/march19-23may-19631954#p34p42</ref>

…'' everlasting''attitudeIf we live only in the outward physical consciousness, everlasting, there is no reason why it shouldn't continuemay descend and work behind the veil but we shall feel nothing and only see certain results after a long time. The cells Or at most we feel themselves everlasting, with a certain state of harmonious inner clarity and peace which partakes of eternityin the mind, that is to saya joy in the vital, free from a happy state in the physical and infer the kind touch of disorder and friction that causes aging and disintegration the Divine. People's ordinary consciousness (it's not a question of ideasBut if we are awake in the inward physical, we shall feel the light, concepts power or anything of that kind: it's Ananda flowing through the body's consciousness, the consciousness of the body's cells)limbs, the ordinarynerves, NATURALblood, NORMAL consciousness is a consciousness full of grating breath and friction, in perpetual disorderthrough the subtle body, affecting the most material cells and making them conscious and blissful and that's we shall sense directly the cause of aging. Well, this is beginning to fade awayDivine Power and Presence.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0428/februarythe-23physical-1963consciousness#p15p12</ref>

The control can become total essential "I" sense disappears when there is the cells become conscious stable realisation of the Divine one universal Self in all and that remains at all moments in all conditions under any circumstances. Usually this comes first in them the Purusha consciousness and when the extension to the Prakriti movements is not immediate… Most Vedantists stop there, because they open themselves voluntarily think that those reactions will fall away from one at death and all will disappear into the One. But for a change of the nature it is necessary that the experience and seeing of the Purusha should spread to His influenceall the parts, mind, vital, physical, subconscient.Then the ego movements of Prakriti can also disappear gradually from one field after another till none is left..Little by little For this a perfect samata even in the subconscient automatism cells of the body and in every vibration of the being is necessary—''samaṁ hi brahma''… The individual remains but that is being replaced by not the small separative ego, but a form and power of the consciousness Universal which feels itself one with all beings, an acting centre and instrument of the Divine Presence governing Universal Transcendent, full of the entire functioning Ananda of the bodypresence and the action but not thinking or moving independently or acting for its own sake. That cannot be called egoism.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1430/experiences-of-the-subconscientself-the-one-and-the-infinite#p20p21</ref>

…'' everlasting'' attitude, everlasting, there is no reason why it shouldn't continue. The scientists now hold cells feel themselves everlasting, with a certain state of harmonious inner peace which partakes of eternity, that it is (theoretically at least) possible to discover physical means by which death can be overcomesay, but free from the kind of disorder and friction that would mean only causes aging and disintegration . People's ordinary consciousness (it's not a prolongation question of ideas, concepts or anything of that kind: it's the body's consciousness, the present consciousness in of the present body. Unless there 's cells), the ordinary, NATURAL, NORMAL consciousness is a change consciousness full of consciousness grating and friction, in perpetual disorder, and change that's the cause of functioningaging. Well, it would be a very small gainthis is beginning to fade away.<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2804/transformationfebruary-and23-the-body1963#p33p15</ref>

The problem I am preoccupied with is building that supramental consciousness So IT becomes the being. It's that consciousness which must become the being. That's what's important…Q. And in order Can one learn to do that, all the consciousness contained in these cells must aggregate, form and organize itself into an independent conscious entity—the consciousness in the cells must aggregate and form into a conscious entity capable of being conscious of Matter as well control one’s subconscient as one controls one’s conscious of the Supramental. Thatthought?'s the thing. That's what is being done. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/april-26-1972#p104</ref><center>~</center>If we live only ''A:'' It is especially during the body’s sleep that one is in contact with the outward physical consciousness, it may descend and work behind the veil but we shall feel nothing and only see certain results after a long timesubconscient. Or at most we feel a certain clarity and peace in the mindIn becoming conscious of one’s nights, a joy in the vital, a happy state in the physical and infer the touch control of the Divine. But if we are awake in the inward physical, we shall feel the light, power or Ananda flowing through the body, the limbs, nerves, blood, breath and, through the subtle body, affecting the most material cells and making them conscious and blissful and we shall sense directly the Divine Power and Presence. <ref>http://incarnatewordsubconscient becomes much easier.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p1</ref><center>~</center>As the human being grows in evolution, he grows in sensibility and suffers more keenly in mind and life and body. For the growth in consciousness is not sufficiently supported by a growth in force; the body becomes more subtle, more finely capable, but less solidly efficient in its external energy: man has to call in his will, his mental power to dynamise, correct and The control his nervous being, force it to the strenuous tasks he demands from his instruments, steel it against suffering and disaster…The gnostic evolution at a certain stage must bring about a completeness of this reversal and of this power of self-protection which will fulfil the claim of the body for immunity and serenity of its being and for deliverance from suffering and build in it a power for the total delight of existence. A spiritual Ananda can flow into the body and inundate cell and tissue; a luminous materialisation of this higher Ananda could of itself bring about a become total transformation of when the deficient or adverse sensibilities cells become conscious of physical Nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p25</ref><center>~</center>The molecular, cellular substance…perhaps even the cellular…the molecular and atomic, is progressing Divine in its capacity to express the divine Force them and Consciousness. Through all these organisms this substance becomes more and more conscious, more and more luminous, more and more receptive, until it reaches a perfection sufficient for it to become a possible vehicle for the divine Force itself which will be able when they open themselves voluntarily to use it as it uses the elements of the other parts of the creation, like the mind or the vitalHis influence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/28-december-1955#p33</ref><center>~</center>In the body there are invaluable and unknown treasures. In all its cells, there is an intensity of life, of aspiration, of the will to progress, which one does not usually even realise. The body-consciousness would have to be completely warped Little by little the action subconscient automatism of the mind and vital for it not to have an immediate will to re-establish the equilibrium. When this will body is not there, it means that being replaced by the entire body-consciousness has been spoilt by the intervention of the mind and vital. In people who cherish their malady more or less subconsciously with a sort of morbidity under Divine Presence governing the pretext that it makes them interesting, it is not their body at all—poor body!—it is something they have imposed upon it with a mental or vital perversion. The body, if left to itself, is remarkable, for, not only does it aspire for equilibrium and well-being but it is capable entire functioning of restoring the balance. If one leaves one's body alone without intervening with all those thoughts, all the vital reactions, all the depressions, and also all the so-called knowledge and mental constructions and fears—if one leaves the body to itself, spontaneously it will do what is necessary to set itself right again. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0614/19-maythe-1954subconscient#p42p20</ref>

As the human being grows in evolution, he grows in sensibility and suffers more keenly in mind and life and body. For when the action growth in consciousness is integral and perfect, to this purely material knowledge there is added an internal knowledge, and not sufficiently supported by a power to bring into play forces like the supramental forces, which can do instantaneously what takes growth in force; the material world a fairly long timebody becomes more subtle, you see. There toomore finely capable, when one succeeds but less solidly efficient in bringing in not only the material knowledge which allows you its external energy: man has to put things call in their place as quickly as possible but also in making a supramental his will, his mental power to dynamise, correct and knowledge intervenecontrol his nervous being, so that the force of truth can be projected upon it to the place—in such strenuous tasks he demands from his instruments, steel it against suffering and disaster. …The gnostic evolution at a certain stage must bring about a way that everything is put under the influence completeness of this force, reversal and that things, elements, of this power of self-protection which will fulfil the claim of the cells body for immunity and everything, everything constituting them, all become receptive to this supramental serenity of its being and for deliverance from suffering and build in it a power for the total delight of existence. A spiritual Ananda can flow into the body and inundate cell and tissue; a luminous materialisation of this higher Ananda could of itself bring about a total transformation of the organisation is made according to a law deficient or adverse sensibilities of truthphysical Nature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0622/18the-augustgnostic-1954being#p38p25</ref>

This is a very concrete experience.It follows that when the earth no longer needs to die in order to progress, there will be no more death. When the earth no longer needs to suffer in order to progress, there will be no more suffering. And when the earth no longer needs to hate in order to love, there will be no more hatred. [Based on Aphorisms 88-92  88—This world was built by Death that he might live. Wilt thou abolish death? Then life too will perish. Thou canst not abolish death, but thou mayst transform it into a greater living.

92—Death transformed becomes Life that is Immortality; Cruelty transfigured becomes Love that is intolerable ecstasy; Ignorance transmuted becomes Light that leaps beyond wisdom and knowledge.] <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-88-89-90-91-92#p8,p9,p10</ref>

At a certain point of this growing disparity and disharmony between As for immortality, it cannot come if there is attachment to the form and the force that presses upon body,—for it, a complete dissolution of the form is unavoidable. A new form must be created; a new harmony and parity made possible. This is only by living in the true significance immortal part of death and this oneself which is its use in Nature. But if unidentified with the form can become more quick body and pliant bringing down its consciousness and force into the cells that it can come.The scientists now hold that it is (theoretically at least) possible to discover physical means by which death can be overcome, but that would mean only a prolongation of the present consciousness in the present body can be awakened to . Unless there is a change with the changing of consciousnessand change of functioning, there it would be no need of a drastic dissolution, death would be no longer inevitablevery small gain. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0328/5transformation-mayand-1929the-body#p21p33</ref>

The central will individual form persisted as a too binding mould; it cannot follow the movements of the physical being abdicates its will to hold all forces; it cannot change in harmony with the cells together. That is progressive change in the first phenomenon. It accepts dissolution for one reason universal dynamism; it cannot meet continually Nature’s demand or another. One keep pace with her; it gets out of the strongest reasons is the sense current. At a certain point of an irreparable this growing disparity and disharmony; between the other is a kind of disgust with continuing form and the effort of coordination and harmonisation. In fact, there are innumerable reasons, but unless there is a violent accident, force that presses upon it is above all this will to maintain cohesion which abdicates for one reason or another, or without reason. It is this which inevitably precedes death.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mothers-action-in-a-class-complete dissolution of-children-aged-sixteen-to-eighteen#p27</ref><center>~</center>There are lots of ways of dying, depending on the various planes of consciousness, and there are lots of causes (''gesture in a gradation''), but in each domain there form is, as it were, an essential cause that makes death at the same time necessary, indispensable and unavoidable. And then, physically, that is, materially in the body's cells, you seem to A new form must be... (''Mother makes created; a gesture at a tangent''), you are just on the borderline, on the verge of finding the secret of why there is cessation, why dissolution is new harmony and parity made necessary by the incapacity to follow the movement of transformationpossible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/july-30-1966#p2</ref><center>~</center>I used This is the word dispersion true significance of the cells death and this is its use in its most concrete senseNature. When But if the concentration which forms the body comes to an end form can become more quick and pliant and the body dissolves, all the cells that have been especially developed and have become conscious of the divine Presence within them, are scattered and enter other combinations in which they awaken, by contagion, the consciousness of the Presence that each one has had. And in this way, by this phenomenon of concentration, development and dispersion, all matter evolves and learns by contagion, develops by contagion, has the experience by contagion.Naturally, the cell dissolves with the body. It is the consciousness of the cells that enters other combinations. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mothers-action-in-a-class-of-children-aged-sixteen-can be awakened to-eighteen#p35</ref><center>~</center>I quite understand a progressive change and that this substance could be made into something capable of renewing itself eternally from within outward. That would be immortality. But it seems to me that between what is now, what we are, and that other mode of life, a lot of stages might be necessary. You see, if for instance you ask these cells, with all the changing consciousness and experience they now have, "Is there something you cannot do?", in their sincerity they will answer, "No, what the Lord wills, I can do." That's their state would be no need of consciousness. But the appearance is otherwise...but it's still open to the whole influence from outside and the body is forced to do things that aren't directly the expression of the supreme Impulsiona drastic dissolution, hence the fatigue, the friction..death would be no longer inevitable.. So a supramental body suspended in a world that's not the earth is not the thing! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0703/september5-30may-19661929#p34p21</ref>

The first and most important point is [Mother relating an incident on fear in the cells]There was a great scientist who was also a great psychologist (I don’t remember his name now); he had developed his inner consciousness but wanted to test it. So he undertook an experiment. He wanted to know that life is if, by means of consciousness, one and immortal… This gives could control the indispensable psychological basis with which to confront reflex actions of the problem, for the problem remains. Even if the inner being is enlightened body (probably he didn’t go far enough to be above all fearable to do it, the fear still remains hidden for it can be done; but in the cells of the bodyany case, obscurefor him it was still impossible). Well, spontaneoushe went to the zoological garden, beyond to the reach of reasonplace where snakes were kept in a glass cage. There was a particularly aggressive cobra there; when it was not asleep, usually it was almost unconscious. It is always in these obscure depths a fury, for through the glass it could see people and that one must find irritated it out, seize hold terribly. Our scientist went and stood in front of the cage. He knew very well that it was made in such a way that the snake could never break the glass and cast upon it that he ran no risk of being attacked. So from there he began to excite the light of knowledge snake by shouts and certitudegestures. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/The cobra, furious, hurled itself against the-fear-of-death-glass, and-every time it did so the-four-methods-of-conquering-scientist closed his eyes! Our psychologist told himself, “But look here, I know that this snake cannot pass through, why do I close my eyes?” Well, one must recognise that it#p2</ref><center>~</center>is difficult to conquer the reaction. It is a sense of protection, and if one feels that one cannot protect oneself, one is afraid. But the movement of fear which is expressed by the eyes fluttering is not a mental or a vital fear: it is a fear in the cells of the body; for it has not been impressed upon them that there is no danger and they do not know how to resist. It is because one has not done yoga, you see. With yoga one can watch with open eyes, one would not close them; but one would not close them because one calls upon something else, and that "something else" is the sense of the divine Presence in oneself which is stronger than everything. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#p31</ref>

If The first and most important point is to know that life is one knows how and immortal. … This gives the indispensable psychological basis with which to teach confront the cells problem, for the splendour that lies within them, problem remains. Even if one knows how to make them understand the reality which makes them exist, gives them inner beingis enlightened enough to be above all fear, then they too enter the total harmony, and fear still remains hidden in the physical disorder which causes the illness vanishes as do all other disorders cells of the being. But for that one must be neither cowardly nor fearful. When the physical disorder comesbody, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must face it with courageobscure, calmnessspontaneous, confidence, with beyond the certitude that illness is a falsehood and that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with a complete quietude to the divine Gracereach of reason, usually almost unconscious. It will settle is in these cells as It is established in the obscure depths that one must find it out, seize hold of the being, it and cast upon it the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth light of knowledge and Delightcertitude.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0912/13the-fear-of-death-februaryand-1957the-four-methods-of-conquering-it#p11,p12p2</ref>

One must first transform his thoughtThe physical consciousness? It opens just like the rest, all his mind, all his mental activityreceives a new consciousness, organise it with higher knowledge; and at obeys 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 doneForce, feels a change even in any case up to a certain point, one can begin to think of transforming the cells of his body, but not begin at aspires to and seeks self-giving and union with the end; one must begin at the beginningDivine. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0728/15the-junephysical-1955consciousness#p3p15</ref>

The ... from the physical point of view human beings live in frightful ignorance. … But it asks for years of labour, and above all years of work almost without any mental control, just with a consciousness that’s subtle enough to establish a connection with the elements of transformation and progress. And to know also how to determine for one’s body, exactly, the amount of physical nature effort, of material activity, of expenditure and recuperation of energy, the proportion between what is obscure received and recalcitrant everywhere; it what is very difficult for it given,the utilisation of energies to become conscious re-establish a state of equilibrium which has been broken, to make the divine Presencecells which are lagging behind progress, to build conditions for the possibility of higher progress, etc... it is a formidable task.That And yet, it is why we that which must be done if one hopes to transform one's body. First it must be patient and keep on aspiring put completely in harmony with the certitude inner consciousness. And to do that, it is a work in each cell, so to say, in each little activity, in every movement of Victorythe organs.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1406/the24-body-thefebruary-physical1954#p3p24</ref>

The physical point body feels very strongly, very strongly that everything could be simple, so simple!And so that the being—this kind of view human beings live in frightful ignoranceindividual agglomerate—can be transformed, it needs precisely to become more simple, simple, simple. …the utilisation All these complications of energies Nature, which they are now beginning to re-establish a state of equilibrium which has been brokenunderstand and study, to make the cells which are lagging behind progress, to build conditions so intricate for the possibility slightest thing—the smallest of our functions is the result of higher progress, etc... a system so complicated that it is a formidable task. And yet, almost unthinkable; certainly it would be impossible for human thought to plan and put together all these things—now science is discovering them, and one can see very clearly that which must if the functioning is to be done divine, that is, if one hopes it is to transform one's body. First escape this disorder and confusion, it must be put completely simplified, simplified, simplified.(''Long silence'')That is to say, Nature, or rather Nature in her attempt at self-expression, was obliged to resort to an unbelievable and almost infinite complication in harmony with order to reproduce the inner consciousnessprimal Simplicity. And we come back to do the same thing. From this excess of complication arises the possibility of a simplicity which would not be empty but full—a full simplicity, a simplicity thatcontains everything; whereas without these complications, it simplicity is a work in each cellempty.Now they are making discoveries like that. In anatomy, so to sayfor example, they are discovering surgical treatments which are unbelievably complicated! It is like their classification of the elements of Matter—what frightful complexity! And all this is for the purpose of… in each little activityan effort to express Unity, in every movement of the organsone Simplicity—the divine state. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0610/24aphorism-88-89-90-february91-195492#p24p15,p16,p18,p19,p20</ref>

But when it comes to including Matter in Yes, this problem of the worktransformation, Matter as I see more and more clearly that there are three approaches, three ways to go about it is , and that in this worldorder to be more complete, where one should combine the very starting-point itself is wrong—we start from Inconscience and Ignorance—then it is very difficultthree. Because One—the most important, in factnaturally—is the way we could call “spiritual, so ” which is that this Matter could reach of the individualisation needed to recover contact with the lost Consciousness—Love-Consciousness-Power, it was made with a certain fixity indispensable that is; these three aspects: supreme Love-Consciousness-Power. And the contact, the identification: to make forms last all the material cells capable of receiving Him and precisely to maintain this possibility of individualityexpressing Him—of BEING That. And  Of all the ways, that is the chief obstacle to most powerful and the widening, most indispensable. There is the plasticityoccult way, which brings all the suppleness needed to be able to receive the supermindintermediary worlds into play. I am constantly faced with this problem, which There is a very concretedetailed knowledge of all the powers and personalities, absolutely material oneall the intermediary regions, when one is dealing with these cells which must remain cells and not evaporate into a reality which is no longer physicalit makes use of all that. And at That’s where one makes use of the same timeOvermind godheads: it’s in this second way. Shiva, they must have this supplenessKrishna, this lack all the aspects of fixity which enables them to widen indefinitely. [Based on Aphorism 69 - Sin and virtue the Mother are a game part of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfectionthis second way. The sense Then there is the higher intellectual approach, which is the projection of virtue helps us to cherish our sins in secreta surpassing scientific mind and takes up the problem from below.]<ref>http://incarnatewordIt has its importance too.in/cwm/10/aphorism-69#p12</ref><center>~</center>...one has a clear perception that From the intervention or manifestation standpoint of the true Vibration doesn't depend on egos or individualities (human or national individualities, or even individualities detail of Nature: animalsthe operation, plants and so on)it reduces approximation, it depends on gives a certain play of more direct and precise action. If one can combine all three, then obviously the thing will go faster. Without the cells first, nothing is possible (and Matter in which there the other two are aggregates particularly favorable for even unrealistic without the transformation to occur—not "transformation"first: the substitutionthey lead nowhere, to be precise, the substitution of the Vibration of Truth for the vibration of Falsehoodyou go round in circles endlessly). And But if you clothe the phenomenon may be very independent of groupings and individualities (it may happen first in one part herethe other two, another part therethen I think the action is more precise, one thing heremore direct, another thing there); and it always corresponds to a certain quality of vibration that causes a sort of swelling—a receptive swelling—and then, the thing can occurmore rapid. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0508/march-254-19641967#p42p13,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19</ref>

But physical Matter in its cellular form hasFor when the action is integral and perfect, we can't say a fear or to this purely material knowledge there is added an anxietyinternal knowledge, but and a sort of apprehension of new vibrationspower to bring into play forces like the supramental forces, and that apprehension naturally which can do instantaneously what takes away from in the material world a fairly long time, you see. There too, when one succeeds in bringing in not only the cells material knowledge which allows you to put things in their receptivity place as quickly as possible but also in making a supramental power and takes on knowledge intervene, so that the appearance force of truth can be projected upon the place—in such a discomfort (it's not a suffering but a discomfort). But when way that apprehension everything is counterbalanced put under the influence of this force, and cured by aspiration that things, elements, the cells and the will for total surrender everything, everything constituting them, all become receptive to this supramental power and the act organisation is made according to a law of total surrender, then that sort of apprehension having disappeared, there comes supreme easetruth... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0706/september18-28august-19661954#p26p38</ref>

Let us take as an example that in certain circumstances or by an exceptional grace you are suddenly put into contact with a supramental light, power or consciousness. It is like an abrupt opening in your closed shell, like a rent in that opaque envelope which separates you from the Truth, and the contact is established. Immediately this force, this consciousness, this light acts, even on your physical cells; it acts in the mind, in the vital, in the body, changes the vibrations, organises the substance and begins its work of transformation. You are under the impact of this sudden contact and action; for you it is a sort of indescribable, inexpressible state which takes hold of you, you haven't any clear, precise, definite idea of it, it is... "something that happens". It may give you the impression of being wonderful or tremendous, but it is inexpressible and incomprehensible for you. That is the experience in its essence and its true power.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/31-october-1956#p18</ref>

==By Physical Activities ==

Physical culture is the process of infusing consciousness into the cells of the body. One may or may not know it, but it is a fact. When we concentrate to make our muscles move according to our will, when we endeavour to make our limbs more supple, to give them an agility, or a force, or a resistance, or a plasticity which they do not naturally possess, we infuse into the cells of the body a consciousness which was not there before, thus turning it into an increasingly homogeneous and receptive instrument, which progresses in and by its activities. This is the primary importance of physical culture. Of course, that is not the only thing that brings consciousness into the body, but it is something which acts in an overall way, and this is rare. I have already told you several times that the artist infuses a very great consciousness into his hands, as the intellectual does into his brain. But these are, as it were, local phenomena, whereas the action of physical culture is more general. And when one sees the absolutely marvellous results of this culture, when one observes the extent to which the body is capable of perfecting itself, one understands how useful this can be to the action of the psychic being which has entered into this material substance. For naturally, when it is in possession of an organised and harmonised instrument which is full of strength and suppleness and possibilities, its task is greatly facilitated.[Based on Aphorism 11 - Immortality is not the survival of the mental personality after death, though that also is true, but the waking possession of the unborn and deathless Self of which body is only an instrument and a shadow.] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-11#p12</ref><center>~</center>… "How does one awaken the consciousness of the physical being?", that is precisely the aim of physical education. It is physical education that teaches the cells to be conscious. But for the development of the brain, it is study, observation, intelligent education, above all observation and reasoning. And naturally, for the whole education of the consciousness from the point of view of character, it is yoga.

By going down Physical culture is the process of infusing consciousness into the subconscientcells of the body. One may or may not know it, into the inconscientbut it is a fact. When we concentrate to make our muscles move according to our will, when we endeavour to make our limbs more supple, to give them an agility, or a force, or a resistance, one can trace the origin of this formation and undo what has been doneor a plasticity which they do not naturally possess, change we infuse into the movements and reactions cells of the ordinary nature by body a conscious consciousness which was not there before, thus turning it into an increasingly homogeneous and deliberate action receptive instrument, which progresses in and thus really transform one's characterby its activities. This is the primary importance of physical culture. Of course, that is not a common achievementthe only thing that brings consciousness into the body, but it has been doneis something which acts in an overall way, and this is rare. So one may assert not only I have already told you several times that the artist infuses a very great consciousness into his hands, as the intellectual does into his brain. But these are, as it were, local phenomena, whereas the action of physical culture is more general. And when one sees the absolutely marvellous results of this culture, when one observes the extent to which the body is capable of perfecting itself, one understands how useful this can be doneto the action of the psychic being which has entered into this material substance. For naturally, but when it is in possession of an organised and harmonised instrument which is full of strength and suppleness and possibilities, its task is greatly facilitated. I do not say that people who practise physical culture necessarily do it for this purpose, because very few are aware of this result. But whether they are aware of it or not, this is the result. Moreover, if you are at all sensitive, when you observe the moving body of a person who has been donepractised physical culture in a methodical and rational way, you see a light, a consciousness, a life, which is not there in others. It … Therefore we can say without fear of being mistaken that physical culture is the first step towards sadhana of the body and that all sadhana necessarily helps to hasten the achievement of the goal. The more consciously you do it, the quicker and more general the integral transformationresult, but after thateven if you do it blindly, there remains if you can see no further than the transformation tips of your fingers or your feet or your nose, you help the cellsoverall development. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/6-january-1951#p11</ref>

==By Certitude== But there Finally, one can say that any discipline that is followed rigorously, sincerely, deliberately, is increasingly a sort of certitude in considerable help, for it enables life on earth to attain its goal more rapidly and prepares it to receive the cells that everything that happens new life. To discipline oneself is with a view to hasten the arrival of this transformation new life and this transfer of the directing powercontact with the supramental reality. And at As it is, the physical body is truly nothing but a very moment when things are materially painful (not even physically: materially painful), disfigured shadow of the eternal life of the cells keep that certitudeSelf. And so they withstandBut this physical body is capable of progressive development; through each individual formation, they endure the suffering without being depressed or affected in the leastphysical substance progresses, with that certitude that and one day it will be capable of building a bridge between physical life as we know it and the supramental life which is to prepare for manifest.[Based on Aphorism 11 - Immortality is not the survival of the transformationmental personality after death, though that it also is even true, but the process waking possession of transformation the unborn and deathless Self of the transfer of the directing powerwhich body is only an instrument and a shadow. ] <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0610/august-31aphorism-196511#p11p12,p13,p15,p16,p17</ref>

Not only the mind and the vital, but the body also in all its cells must aspire for the divine transformation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/transformation-and-the-parts-of-the-being#p12</ref>

... each part of the being has its own aspiration which has the nature of the aspiring part. There is even a physical aspiration; the body can… The cells of the body understand what the transformations will be, and with all their strength, all the consciousness they contain, they aspire for this transformation. The very cells of the body—not the central will, thought or emotion—the cells of the body open in this way to receive the Force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/3-november-1954#p19</ref>

The cells At the centre of the body thirst for each cell lies the Divine Consciousness . By aspiration and when they are brought into contact with It their aspiration becomes very intenserepeated self-giving, the cells must be made transparent.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/2118-octobermarch-1967#p2</ref>

There comes a moment when the body itself finds that there is ''nothing in the world'' which is so worth living for as this transformation; that There is nothing which can have as great an interest as this passionate interest of transformation...It is as though all the cells' conscious aspiration of the body were at thirst for that Light which wants to the Suprememanifest; they cry out for it, they find an intense joy in it and are sure of the Victory. This is the only thing aspiration that can actually transform the body; I am trying to communicate to you, and it you will understand that everything else in life is verydull, very independent of insipid, futile, worthless in comparison with that: the transformation in the domain of sensationsLight. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0609/march25-27september-19651957#p4p8,p9</ref>

There is nothing which But physical Matter in its cellular form has, we can have as great 't say a fear or an interest as this passionate interest anxiety, but a sort of transformation. It is as though all apprehension of new vibrations, and that apprehension naturally takes away from the cells their receptivity and takes on the appearance of a discomfort (it's not a suffering but a discomfort). But when that apprehension is counterbalanced and cured by aspiration and the body were at thirst will for total surrender and the act of total surrender, then that Light which wants to manifest; they cry out for itsort of apprehension having disappeared, they find an intense joy in it and are sure of the Victorythere comes supreme ease.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0907/25september-september28-19571966#p8p26</ref>

As Even in the body, for instance, when there is something like an attack, an accident, an illness trying to come in—something—an attack on the body, a body that is left to its natural spontaneity has an urge, an aspiration, a spontaneous will to call for help. But as soon as the affair goes to the head, it takes the form of things to which one is accustomed: everything is spoilt. But if the body is seen in itself, just as it is, there is something which suddenly wakes up and calls for help, and with such a faith, such an intensity, just as the tiny little baby calls its mamma, you know—or whoever is there, it says nothing if it cannot speak. But the body left to itself without this kind of constant action of the mind upon it… well, it has this: as soon as there is some disturbance, immediately it has an aspiration, a call, an effort to seek help, and this is very powerful. If nothing intervenes, it is very powerful. It is as though the cells themselves sprang up in an aspiration, a call. In the body there are invaluable and unknown treasures. In all its cells, there is an intensity of life, of aspiration, of the will to progress, which one does not usually even realise. The body-consciousness would have to be completely warped by the action of the mind and vital for it not to have an immediate will to re-establish the equilibrium. When this will is not there, it means that the entire body-consciousness has been spoilt by the intervention of the mind and vital. In people who cherish their malady more or less subconsciously with a sort of morbidity under the pretext that it makes them interesting, it is not their body at all—poor body!—it is something they have imposed upon it with a mental or vital perversion. The body, if left to itself, is remarkable, for, not only does it aspire for equilibrium and well-being but it is capable of restoring the balance. If one leaves one’s body alone without intervening with all those thoughts, all the vital reactions, all the depressions, and also all the so-called knowledge and mental constructions and fears—if one leaves the body to itself, spontaneously it will do what is necessary to set itself right again. The body in its natural state likes equilibrium, likes harmony; it is the other parts of the being which spoil everything. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/19-may-1954#p41,p42,p43</ref><center>~</center>At ==By Offering== Of course, there is a higher state than this, the centre state Sri Aurobindo speaks of each cell lies as the ideal to be fulfilled: the Divine Consciousnessdivine life in a divine body. But he himself tells us that this will take time; it is an integral transformation which cannot be achieved in a moment. It will even take quite a long time. By aspiration and repeated self-givingBut when it is accomplished, when the cells must consciousness has become a supramental consciousness, then action will no longer be determined at every moment by a mental choice or be made transparent.<ref>httpdependent on the physical capacity://incarnatewordthe entire body will spontaneously, integrally, be the perfect expression of the inner truth.in/cwm/16/18-march-1967#p2</ref>

That's what is remarkable in the physical, it's that when the physical has learned something, it never forgets. Once the cells have learned that, learned this self-giving, this offering to the Divine, and this NEED to offer themselves, it's learned, and it DOESN'T BUDGE ANYMORE. It's constant, twenty-four hours a day, ceaselessly, day after day, changelessly; even when something goes wrong (you have a pain or something), the first movement is this: it's to offer it, to give it—spontaneously. The higher consciousness doesn't intervene, it's spontaneous: it's the consciousness contained in the cells. [Mother’s experience]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/october-1-1969#p28</ref>

...a boxed-in peace, but a peace all the same, a real peace, a concrete, concrete stillness. So the thing to be done (''because that peace is perceptible I've had the experience of it so many times'') is to remain very objective within that peace; then you can benefit from the peace without accepting its limits. You should, for instance, be able to keep that peace in the cells (''the brain cells if you feel tired'') without allowing yourself to be enclosed like that. There is no need to struggle, just remain turned upward.... It's very hard to explain. But maybe you will experience it, then you'll understand what I mean.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/april-16-1963#p3</ref><center>~</center>A quietness There is always a vibration subtler than his vibration of peace, and that one must remain free, without getting enclosed in the cells of other. For example, if something pulls and causes a mental tension in the bodyhead, just keep in contact with that peace (oh, even he does have a sense capacity of mental immobility (so that the body seems to be moved rather than to move) is a different thing , and easily distinguishable from let it penetrate you, but without concentrating all your being on it: allow the inertiarest of your activity to unfold as usual in an infinity. The down flow It’s only the vibrations of peace usually brings much of the static Brahman into the consciousness down to the physicalmind that you should keep in that stability.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3104/difficultiesapril-of16-the-physical-nature1963#p33p3,p4</ref>

Equality and self-control are most necessary to Yoga, but also most difficult, one has to strive slowly after them; they are not, at least A quietness in their completeness, easily attainable. The whole being has to be pervaded by calm and peace; the nerves and cells of the body have , even a sense of immobility (so that the body seems to be full moved rather than to move) is a different thing and easily distinguishable from the inertia. The down flow of calm and peace. Until then what one has to strive usually brings much of the static Brahman into the consciousness down to attain is an inner calm in the inner being which remains even when the outer is disturbed by invasions of grief, unease or angerphysical... <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/imperfectionsdifficulties-andof-periodsthe-ofphysical-arrestnature#p9p30</ref>

Wideness and calmness are the foundation of the Yogic consciousness and the best condition for inner growth and experience. If a wide calm can be established in the physical consciousness, occupying and filling the very body and all its cells, that can become the basis for its transformation; in fact, without this wideness and calmness the transformation is hardly possible.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p20p18</ref> <center>~</center>It is only a real descent of the higher consciousness from above that can give a peaceful and beautiful merging of the atoms (?) ...into the wideness of the Divine—that is to say one feels the very cells sharing in that peace and wideness. This is possible even if the material body is ill. In most cases it is the subtle body that feels like that, but as the subtle penetrates everywhere the gross physical, the physical body also feels like that. But then it does not feel disturbed by the pains or motions of the illness—they do not affect its peace or Ananda.

For this delight is everywhere. This delight is something very subtle. One moves in the midst of things and it is as though they were all singing to you their delight. There comes a time when it becomes very familiar in the life around you. Of course, I must admit that it is a little more difficult to feel it in human beings, because there are all their mental and vital formations which come into the field of perception and disturb it. There is too much of this kind of egoistic asperity which gets mixed with things, so it is more difficult to contact the Delight there. But even in animals one feels it; it is already a little more difficult than in plants. But in plants, in flowers, it is so wonderful! They speak all their joy, they express it. And as I said, in all familiar objects, the things around you, which you use, there is a state of consciousness in which each one is happy to be, just as it is. So at that moment one knows one has touched true Delight. And it is not conditioned. I mean it does not depend upon… it depends on nothing. It does not depend on outer circumstances,does not depend on a more or less favourable state, it does not depend on anything: it is a communion with the ''raison d’être'' of the universe. And when this comes it fills all the cells of the body. It is not even a thing which is thought out—one does no reason, does not analyse, it is not that: it is a ''state '' in which one lives. And when the body shares in it, it is so fresh—so fresh, so spontaneous, so... so… it no longer turns back upon itself, there is no longer any sense of self-observation, of self-analysis or of analysing things. All that is like a canticle of joyous vibrations, but very, very quiet, without violence, without passion, nothing of all that. It is very subtle and very intense at the same time, and when it comes, it seems that the whole universe is a marvellous harmony. Even what is to the ordinary human consciousness ugly, unpleasant, appears marvellous.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/23-january-1957#p19,p20</ref>

The cells which are able to vibrate to the contact of divine joy, to receive and preserve it, are regenerated cells on the way to becoming immortal. But the vibration of divine joy and those of pleasure cannot lodge together in the same vital and physical system. So one must have ''totally '' renounced experiencing all pleasure in order to be in a state to receive the Ananda. But very few are those who can renounce pleasure without, by the very fact, renouncing all participation in active life and plunging into a rigorous asceticism. And among those who know that it is in active life that the transformation must take place, some try to see pleasure as a more or less warped form of Ananda, and thus justify in themselves the quest for personal satisfaction, creating in themselves an almost insuperable obstacle to their own transformation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/25-august-1954#p9</ref>

A premature and excessive physical austerity (''tapasyā'') may endanger the process of the sadhana by establishing a disturbance and abnormality of the forces in the different parts of the system. A great energy may pour into the mental and vital parts, but the nerves and the body may be overstrained and lose the strength to support the play of these higher energies. This is the reason why an extreme physical austerity is not included here as a substantive part of the sadhana.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/food#p65</ref><center>~</center>It's no use if the thought does it, if the psychic consciousness, EVEN THE PHYSICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, does it: it must be the cells that do it. So the one who does it in the thought says, "Here, I give myself to the Divine, I am ready for anything, I am in a state of perfect equality, and still I am ill! So what am I to believe?" …there should instantaneously be, wherever a disorder has occurred for some reason or other, this: "Lord—Lord, this is You; Lord, we are You; Lord, You are here"—everything flies away. A sensation, an attitude—instantaneously, hup! it's over. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/november-23-1965#p21</ref> That's too much—"agitation" is too much, it's rather a lack of rest. Not agitation reallyp57, but something that lacks the rest of certainty. I constantly catch my cells being like that. Naturally I react, but for them it's a very normal state: always straining after the next moment, never the quietude of the present moment…from moment to moment. As soon as the Consciousness comes (''gesture of descent'') and concentrates, as soon as I bring the Consciousness into the present moment, everything becomes quiet, immobile, eternal. But if I am not CONSTANTLY attentive, the other condition [of restlessness] comes almost as a subconsciousness: it's always there. And VERY tiring—it must be one of the most important sources of fatigue in mankind. Especially here (''Mother touches her forehead and temples''), it's very tiring. Only when you can live in the eternity of the present minute does it all stop—everything becomes white, immobile, calm, everything is fine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/july-20-1963#p44p58</ref>

One—the most importantYou must sleep well…As soon as you feel tired, naturally—is the way we could call "spirituallet yourself drift into sleep," which is that don't resist. That's important. ... It's in a sort of stillness of the contact with cells' consciousness that they assimilate the Consciousness—Love-Consciousness-Powernew force. So when it comes, don't resist. Generally, that is; these three aspectsit doesn't last very long: supreme Love-Consciousness-Powerfifteen minutes, twenty minutes. A period of assimilation. And You know, the contactatmosphere is charged, the identification: to make all the material cells capable of receiving Him and expressing Him—of BEING Thatcharged, increasingly charged. So if suddenly you feel something pulling, don't resist, let yourself go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0806/marchnovember-415-19671965#p14p16</ref>

You must always try to keep the quietude, not allow depressing or disturbing thoughts or feelings to enter you or take hold of your mind or your speech…And speech. …And if the mind keeps its quietude and receptivity to higher forces only, it can then easily pass on that quietude and receptivity to the body consciousness and even to the material cells of the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p62</ref>

 This is one of the things one discovers gradually as the body becomes ready for transformations. It is quite a remarkable instrument in the see that it can experience two contraries at the same time. There is a certain state of body-consciousness which brings things together, totalises things that in other states of consciousness alternate or even in certain others oppose each other… other. But if one has reached up there, in the vital and the mind, a development sufficient for harmonising opposites (that of course, is quite indispensable), when one has succeeded in doing this, there are moments when it alternates, you see, one thing comes after the other, while what is remarkable in the consciousness of the body is that it can feel (“feel”, can we say “feel”?—“experience”—the word “aware” expresses it best) all things simultaneously, as though you were hot and cold at once, as though you were active and passive at once, and everything becomes like that. Then you begin to grasp the totality of movements in the cells. It is something much more concrete naturally, but much more perfect in the body than in any other part of the being. This means that if things continue in this way, it will be proved that the physical, material instrument is the most perfect of all. That is why perhaps it is the most difficult to transform, to perfect. But of all, it is the one most capable of perfection. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/21-april-1954#p26,p27,p29</ref>

On the material level, japa is very good for that. When your head is tired and you are a little weary of forever contradicting that pessimism, you just have to repeat your japa, and automatically you make contact. To make contact. That's something the cells value a lot. A lot. It's a very good way, because it's a way that isn't mental, it's a mechanical way, it's a question of vibration.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-10-1964#p48</ref><center>~</center>===Mother’s Experience with Japa=== … what you call “aspiration” is a movement of your psychic consciousness, mentally formulated and supported by the vital—but it ISN’T YOUR BODY.And it’s only if you are very attentive to the vibration of the cells, if you are accustomed to observing them and feeling them that you can see.Well, I don’t know, but I can’t complain about my body’s cells….You know, it isn’t a perception, it isn’t a sensation, it is… a LIVED FAITH in the existence of the Supreme alone—you know, a faith that it’s the only Reality and the only Existence. Just that, and everything seems to swell up, as if all these cells were swelling up with such joy!… Only, it doesn’t take the form of a feeling, not even of a sensation, even less of a thought; so if you aren’t very attentive, you don’t notice it. But, for instance, when I repeat the mantra, it's it’s repeated by that famous physical mind, which is so stupid (the mantra is the only thing that can keep a rein on it), and now it has become so identified that the mantra is its whole life, it is like a pulsation of its being; but then when I come to the invocation (there is a series of invocations: each one has its own effect on the body), when I come to "Manifest “Manifest Your Love," ” I see a sort of twinkling of a golden light, which represents an intense joy in all the cells. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/november-21-1964#p28</ref>

 As soon as I sit for meditation, as soon as I have a quiet minute to concentrate, it always begins with this mantra, and there is a response in the body, in the cells of the body: they all start vibrating. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/september-16-1958#p44p24,p25</ref>

The japa is made precisely to control the physical mind.I myself use it for a very special reason, because … You see, I invoke (the words are a bit strange) … the Lord of Tomorrow. Not the unmanifest Lord, but the Lord as he will manifest ‘tomorrow,’ or in Sri Aurobindo’s words, the divine manifestation in its supramental form.So the first sound of my mantra is the call to that, the evocation. With the second sound, the body's body’s cells make their' their’ surrender,' ’ they give themselves. And with the third sound comes the identification of this [the body] with That, which produces the divine life. These are my three sounds.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-11-1960#p17</ref><center>~</center>It's a sort of spinelessness (gesture of groveling) which accepts a general, impersonal law: you paddle about in illness. And in response to the beginning, during the first months thatI was doing the japa, there is inside, every minute, I felt them … I had an almost detailed awareness of these myriads of cells opening to this vibration; the sense vibration of the true attitudefirst sound is an absolutely special vibration (you see, which in the cells is expressed with great simplicity: "There above, there is the Lordlight and all that, who but beyond this light there is the original vibration), and this vibration was entering into all-powerful Master." Something like thatthe cells and was reproduced in them. "It depends entirely went on Himfor months in this way. If a surrender  Even now, when something or other is not all right, I have only to be madereproduce the thing with the same type of concentration as at the beginning … for, it's to Him." when I make sentencessay the japa, but for the cells it's not sentences. It's a tiny little movement that expresses itself by repeating sound and the words together—the way the mantra; then words are understood, the mantra is full—full feel of force—and there is instantly the surrender: "May Your Will be done," and words—create a tranquillity—a luminous tranquillitycertain totality. I have to reproduce that. And one sees that there was absolutely no imperative need to be ill or for the disequilibrium to occurway it’s repeated is evolving all the time.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/june-15-1968#p17</ref><center>~</center>The words are the same, however, the original sound is the same, but it's it’s all constantly evolving towards a more comprehensive realization and a more and more complete STATE. So when I want to obtain a certain result, I reproduce a certain type of this state. For example, if something in the body is not functioning right (it can't can’t really be called an illness, but when something's something’s out of order), or if I wish to do some specific work on a specific person for a specific reason, then I go back to a certain state of repetition of my mantra, which acts directly on the body's body’s cells. And then the same phenomenon is reproduced—exactly the same extraordinary vibration which I recognized when the supramental world descended. It comes in and vibrates like a pulsation in the cells.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-11-1960#p15,p16,p17,p18,p19</ref>

...to call the light, a light First of equilibriumall, a light of peace, quietude you must not want it and balance, and to push it into all the cells of nothing in the body, enjoining them must want it. You must have a very strong will not to be afraid, because that again ill. This is another the first condition.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p12</ref>

The healing by faith First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness at all. But you must not because of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude and a complete trust in the cells is an actual fact and a law power of Nature and has been demonstrated often enough even apart the Grace to shelter you from Yoga. The way to get faith and everything else is to insist on having them , and refuse to flag or despair or give up until one has them…The difficulty then think of something else, not be concerned about this any longer. When you have done these two things, refusing the endeavour is illness with all your will and infusing a known thing, but confidence which completely eliminates the difficult is not fear in the impossible—it is cells of the difficult that has always been accomplished body, and then busying yourself with something else, not thinking any longer about the conquest of difficulties makes up all illness, forgetting that it exists… there, if you know how to do that is valuable , you may even be in the earth's historycontact with people who have contagious diseases, and yet you do not catch them. In the spiritual endeavour also it shall be soBut you must know how to do this.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2907/faith11-may-1955#p58p11,p12,p13</ref>

We could say that the cure for all physical disorders lies in the cells becoming convinced—conscious and convinced—that they are an expression of the Divine, or even that they are divine in their essence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/october-16-1971#p63</ref> ===By Faith=== ...healing by faith in the cells is an actual fact and a law of Nature and has been demonstrated often enough even apart from Yoga. The way to get faith and everything else is to insist on having them and refuse to flag or despair or give up until one has them—it is the way by which everything has been got since this difficult world began to have thinking and aspiring creatures upon it. It is to open always, always to the Light and turn one’s back on the darkness. It is to refuse the voices that cry persistently, “You cannot, you shall not, you are incapable, you are the puppet of a dream”—for these are the enemy voices, they cut one off from the result that was coming by their strident clamour and then triumphantly point to the barrenness of result as a proof of their thesis. The difficulty of the endeavour is a known thing, but the difficult is not the impossible—it is the difficult that has always been accomplished and the conquest of difficulties makes up all that is valuable in the earth's history. In the spiritual endeavour also it shall be so. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/faith#p58</ref>

The peace and spontaneous knowledge are in the psychic being and from there they spread to mind and vital and physical. It is in the outer physical consciousness that the difficulty still tries to persist and brings the restlessness sometimes into the physical mind, sometimes into the nerves, sometimes in the shape of bodily trouble into the body. But all these things can and must go. Even the illnesses can go entirely with the growth of peace and power in the nerves and physical cells—stomach pains, weakness of the eyes and everything else.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p70</ref>

This body-mind And there is a small beginning of how that being which Sri Aurobindo calls “supramental” will be—the next creation. A small beginning. And it is, as Sri Aurobindo said, an explanation from within outward—the “outward,” the surface, has only a quite secondary importance and it will come at the very tangible truth; owing to its obscurity end, when it’s ready. But it begins from within outward, and mechanical clinging to past movements it begins in a rather precise and facile oblivion and rejection interesting way. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/september-3-1966#p21,p22</ref><center>~</center>In speaking of the new, we find divine body I entered into some far-off speculations about what might become possible in the future evolution of it one by means of a spiritual force, but obviously the chief obstacles possibilities could not be anything near or immediate and I said clearly enough that we shall have to permeation by begin at the supermind force beginning and the transformation not attempt anything out of the functioning of the bodyway. Perhaps I should have insisted more on present limitations but that I should now make clear. On For the other hand, once effectively converted, it will be one immediate object of my endeavours is to establish spiritual life on earth and for that the most precious instruments for first necessity must always be to realise the stabilisation of Divine; only then can life be spiritualised or what I have called the supramental light and force in material NatureLife Divine be made possible. The creation of something that could be called a divine body could be only an ulterior aim undertaken as part of this transformation… <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2835/the-vital-beingsupramental-andmanifestation-vitalupon-consciousnessearth#p16p1</ref>

The physical mind] descent of the Supermind will bring to one who receives it and is closely connected with fulfilled in the truth-consciousness all the possibilities of the brain functioningdivine life. All these things—irritationIt will take up not only the whole characteristic experience which we recognise already as constituting the spiritual life, griefbut also all which we now exclude from that category but which is capable of divinisation, fear etc. etc.—can become entirely discharged not excluding whatever of thought content the earth-nature and felt simply as a physical sensation in the cells, not accepted earth-life can be transformed by the thought (even in touch of the physical mind), not shared in by Supermind and taken up into the emotional being—a wave brought from outside into manifested life of the material body consciousnessSpirit.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-physical-mind-For a divine life on earth need not be a thing apart and-sadhana#p24</ref> =Supramental Body = These material cells had exclusive having nothing to gain do with the capacity to receive common earthly existence: it will take up human being and manifest human life, transform what can be transformed, spiritualise whatever can be spiritualised, cast its influence on the consciousness; rest and what permits effectuate either a radical transformation is that instead of or an ascent which is so to speak eternal uplifting change, bring about a deeper communion between the universal and indefinitethe individual, there is invade the ideal with the appearance spiritual truth of which it is a new type—a descent from aboveluminous shadow and help to uplift into or towards a greater and higher existence. The previous descent was Mind it will uplift towards a mental onediviner light of thought and will, while this is what Sri Aurobindo calls a "supramental descent"; the impression islife towards deeper and truer emotion and action, towards a descent larger power of the supreme Consciousness infusing itself , towards high aims and motives. Whatever cannot yet be raised into something capable its own full truth of receiving and manifesting being, it. Then, out of will bring nearer to that fullness; whatever is not ready even for thatchange, once will still see the possibility open to it whenever its still incomplete evolution has been thoroughly kneaded (there's no knowing how much time made it ready for self-fulfilment. Even the body, if it can bear the touch of Supermind, will take)become more aware of its own truth, —for there is a new form will be bornbody consciousness that has its own instinctive truth and power of right condition and action, even a kind of unexpressed occult knowledge in the constitution of its cells and tissues which may one day become conscious and contribute to the transformation of the physical being. An awakening must come in the earth-nature and in the earth-consciousness which will be , if not the actual beginning, at least the form Sri Aurobindo called supramentaleffective preparation and the first steps of its evolution towards a new and diviner world order. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0813/novembersupermind-and-the-22life-1967divine#p49p9</ref>

The supramental body which has These material cells had to be brought into being here has four main attributes: lightness, adaptability, plasticity and luminosity. When gain the physical body is thoroughly divinised, it will feel as if it were always walking on air, there will be no heaviness or tamas or unconsciousness in it. There will also be no end to its power of adaptability: in whatever conditions it is placed it will immediately be equal capacity to receive and manifest the demands made upon it because its full consciousness will drive out all that inertia ; and incapacity which usually make Matter what permits a drag on the Spirit. Supramental plasticity will enable it to stand the attack radical transformation is that instead of every hostile force an ascent which strives to pierce it: it will present no dull resistance is so to speak eternal and indefinite, there is the attack but will beappearance of a new type—a descent from above. The previous descent was a mental one, on while this is what Sri Aurobindo calls a "supramental descent"; the contraryimpression is, so pliant as to nullify a descent of the force by giving way to supreme Consciousness infusing itself into something capable of receiving and manifesting it to pass off. Thus Then, out of that, once it will suffer has been thoroughly kneaded (there's no harmful consequences and the most deadly attacks will leave it unscathed. Lastly, knowing how much time it will be turned into the stuff of lighttake), each cell will radiate the supramental glory. Not only those who are developed enough to have their subtle sight open but the ordinary man too will be able to perceive this luminosity. It a new form will be an evident fact to each and allborn, a permanent proof of the transformation which will convince even be the most scepticalform Sri Aurobindo called supramental. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0308/true-humility-supramental-plasticitynovember-spiritual22-rebirth1967#p2p45</ref>

An impersonal Presence The supramental body which has dominated from above or penetrated and occupied his nature; a Light descending to be brought into being here has suffused his mindfour main attributes: lightness, life-poweradaptability, plasticity and luminosity. When the very cells of his physical bodyis thoroughly divinised, illumined them with knowledgeit will feel as if it were always walking on air, revealed him there will be no heaviness or tamas or unconsciousness in it. There will also be no end to himself down its power of adaptability: in whatever conditions it is placed it will immediately be equal to his most disguised the demands made upon it because its full consciousness will drive out all that inertia and unsuspected movementsincapacity which usually make Matter a drag on the Spirit. Supramental plasticity will enable it to stand the attack of every hostile force which strives to pierce it: it will present no dull resistance to the attack but will be, on the contrary, exposingso pliant as to nullify the force by giving way to it to pass off. Thus it will suffer no harmful consequences and the most deadly attacks will leave it unscathed. Lastly, purifyingit will be turned into the stuff of light, destroying or brilliantly changing all that belonged each cell will radiate the supramental glory. Not only those who are developed enough to have their subtle sight open but the Ignoranceordinary man too will be able to perceive this luminosity. …A Force has poured into him in currents or like It will be an evident fact to each and all, a seapermanent proof of the transformation which will convince even the most sceptical. The bodily transformation will be the supreme spiritual rebirth—an utter casting away of all the ordinary past. For spiritual rebirth means the constant throwing away of our previous associations and circumstances and proceeding to live as if at each virgin moment we were starting life anew. It is to be free of what is called Karma, worked the stream of our past actions: in his being other words, a liberation from the bondage of Nature’s common activity of cause and effect. When this cutting away of the past is triumphantly accomplished in the consciousness, all its membersthose mistakes, blunders, errors and follies which, dissolvedstill vivid in our recollection, newcling to us like leeches sucking our life-madeblood, reshapeddrop away, transfigured everywhereleaving us most joyfully free. A Bliss has invaded him and shown that This freedom is not a mere matter of thought; it can make suffering and sorrow impossible and turn pain itself into divine pleasureis the most solid, practical, material fact. We really are free, nothing binds us, nothing affects us, there is no obsession of responsibility. A Love without limits has joined him If we want to all creatures counteract, annul or outgrow our past, we cannot do it by mere repentance or revealed to him a world similar things, we must forget that the untransformed past has ever been and enter into an enlightened state of inseparable intimacy and unspeakable sweetness and beauty and begun consciousness which breaks loose from all moorings. To be reborn means to impose its law enter, first of perfection all, into our psychic consciousness where we are one with the Divine and its ecstasy even amidst eternally free from the disharmony reactions of terrestrial lifeKarma. …All relations known Without becoming aware of the psychic, it is not possible to human personality do so; but once we are there in securely conscious of the true soul's contact with in us which is always surrendered to the Divine; but they rise towards superhuman levels , all bondage ceases. Then incessantly life begins afresh, then the past no longer cleaves to us. To give you an idea of the final height of spiritual rebirth, I may say that there can be a constant experience of the whole universe actually disappearing at every instant and compel him towards a divine nature.being at every instant newly created! <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2303/the-sacrificetrue-thehumility-triunesupramental-pathplasticity-andspiritual-the-lord-of-the-sacrificerebirth#p31p2,p3</ref>

It was as when I used to give people a certain number of flowers: at times it meant,... It could be This transformation by the transformations help of the willmind―by self-analysis―is a first step; afterwards, it could be is necessary to transform the transformations of actionvital impulses: that is much more difficult, it could be and especially to transform the material transformations of physical. Every cell in our bodies must become conscious. This is the cells, work I am doing here; it could be a transformation will enable the conquest of yourself..death. That is another story; that will be the transformations humanity of stars in the universe... future, perhaps after hundreds of many things..years, perhaps sooner. It depended will depend on men, on peoplenations. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0613/21-julyearly-1954talks#p53p97</ref>

After perfect stillnessAs for me, there the purpose of this body is now simply: the movement of inner aspiration (I am always referring to Command and the aspiration Will of the cells—I am using words to describe something wordless, but there is no other way to express oneself)Lord, so I can do as much groundwork as possible. But it isn’t the surrenderGoal at all. You see, that is to saywe don’t know, we don’t have the SPONTANEOUS AND TOTAL acceptance slightest knowledge of what the supreme Will (which supramental life is unknown to us). Does Therefore we don’t know if this (''Mother pinches the total Will want things skin of her hand'') can change enough to go this way adapt or that way, that is, towards not—and to tell the disintegration of certain elements or towards...? And then againtruth, there are endless nuances: there is the passage from one height to another (I am speaking of cellular realizationsnot worried about it, of course, don't forget it’s not a problem that), preoccupies me too much; the problem I mean am preoccupied with is building that you have a certain inner equilibrium, an equilibrium of movement, of life, and itsupramental consciousness So IT becomes the being. It's understood that in order to go from one movement to a higher movement, there is almost always a descent, then a new ascent—there is a transitionconsciousness which must become the being. That's what's important…. So does the shock received impel you to go down And in order to climb up again, or does it impel you do go down in order to abandon old movements? Because there are cellular ways of being that have to disappear in order to give way to others; there are others that climb down in order to climb up again with a higher harmony and organization. This is the second point. And you should wait and see WITHOUT POSTULATING IN ADVANCE what has to be. There is especially, of course, all the desire: the desire to be comfortable, the desire to be consciousness contained in peace and all that—that these cells must cease absolutely aggregate, form and disappear. You must be absolutely without any reaction, like this (gesture of immobile offering Upward, palms open). And then, when you are like that ("you," meaning organize itself into an independent conscious entity—the consciousness in the cells), after must aggregate and form into a while the perception comes conscious entity capable of being conscious of Matter as well as conscious of the category Supramental. That's the movement belongs to, and you just have to follow the perception, whether it is that something must disappear and be replaced by something else (which one doesnthing. That't know yet), or whether it s what is that something must be transformedbeing done.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0613/marchapril-2426-19651972#p38p104</ref>

 According to the ancient traditions, this universalization of the physical body was considered the supreme realization, but it is only a foundation, the base upon which the Supramental can come down without breaking everything. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/april-21-1959#p1,p2,p3</ref><center>~</center>But when it comes to including Matter in the work, Matter as it is in this world, where the very starting-point itself is wrong—we start from Inconscience and Ignorance—then it is very difficult. Because, in fact, so that this Matter could reach the individualisation needed to recover the lost Consciousness, it was made with a certain fixity indispensable to make forms last and precisely to maintain this possibility of individuality. And that is the chief obstacle to the widening, the plasticity, the suppleness needed to be able to receive the supermind. I am constantly faced with this problem, which is a very concrete, absolutely material one, when one is dealing with these cells which must remain cells and not evaporate into a reality which is no longer physical. And at the same time, they must have this suppleness, this lack of fixity which enables them to widen indefinitely. [Based on Aphorism 69 - Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection. The sense of virtue helps us to cherish our sins in secret.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-69#p12</ref>

This transformation is one of the things I’ve learned lately by experience—universalisation, the help contact with everything (''horizontal gesture'')—and it has been shown to the body in such a precise way, in the detail of the vibration…. In the state of receptivity (''vertical gesture to the Heights''), of receptive passivity (the mind―by self-analysis―is a first step; afterwardsopposite of action, it that is necessary ), the body must be turned exclusively to transform the vital impulsesSupreme (''same vertical gesture''): the body and the cells have been taught that, and they’ve understood—they’ve understood and are now used to it. In the state of action (''horizontal gesture''), when you are one with (well, let’s limit the problem to the earth), one with the whole earth, there must be an ACTIVE radiating vibration of the supreme Force. Receptivity like this (''vertical gesture that receives the Force''), and activity like this (''horizontal gesture that spreads the Force out''). And the cells have felt, they’ve understood, they can do it. And the relationship with everything around you, down to the smallest detail, is much more difficultsomething so wonderful, with an influence radiating farther and especially farther away. When you realize those two attitudes simultaneously, the contagion is abolished: the mental contagion (the one Sri Aurobindo refers to transform here, the one you get when you “admire” something), the physicalmental contagion, the vital contagion, and EVEN THE PHYSICAL CONTAGION—when the cells realize that, you stop catching illnesses. Every cell Because formerly (for a long time), whenever something occurred in the sphere of influence of the action, there used to be a repercussion (''in our bodies must Mother''). For a very long time, it was dangerous. Then it became reduced to a sense of unease which would become conscious. This is , and conscious of the work I am doing here; it will enable why—the why and the conquest how. It was reduced to a state of deathunease, but it was still … tiresome. That And now it’s a kind of … I can’t say “knowledge,” because it’s not mental, but an awareness (there’s no word for it in French), a perception—and nothing more, it doesn’t have any action (''that is another story; , any repercussion in Mother’s body''). So then, the whole problem lies there:There are those who found this, the vertical ascent to the heights, and who isolated themselves from the world (they weren’t able to do that will be completely because they didn’t have the humanity of knowledge, but they tried). That’s not the futuresolution. Then there are those who want to help, perhaps after hundreds the generous ones who are like this (''gesture of yearshorizontal expansion''), and who catch everything, perhaps soonereven the mental illnesses of all the people around them. It will depend on menThe truth is the two together: this, the passive, receptive state (''vertical gesture''), and that, on nationsthe active state of action and radiating influence (''horizontal gesture''). And the body has become wholly conscious of the dual movement and is working to realize it in detail.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1308/earlydecember-6-talks1967#p98p31,p32,p33</ref>

There is an increasingly concrete perception that everything—that there is nothing that doesn't hold its own joy of being, because that's THE way of being: without joy of being, there is no being. But it's not what we mentally understand by "joy of being." It's... something which is hard to express. And this perception of suffering and joy (almost of evil and good), all of that is necessities of the work to enable it to be done in a certain field of unconsciousness. Because true consciousness is something entirely, totally different. That's what the consciousness of the cells is now learning, and learning through a concrete experience; and all those appreciations of what is good and what is evil, of what is suffering and what is joy, all that seems misty. But the "thing"—the Truth—the concrete thing still hasn't been caught. It's on the way, one feels it's on the way, but it's not there yet. If one had it... one would be the all-powerful master. And possibly one cannot have it until the world in its totality, or to a sufficient extent, is ready for the transformation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/march-13-1968#p15</ref>

The ordinary idea that this phenomenon must necessarily occur first in the body where the Consciousness is expressed more constantly, seems absolutely useless and subordinate; on the contrary, it occurs everywhere at the same time, wherever it can do so most easily and completely, and it is not necessarily this agglomerate of cells (''Mother points to her own body'') that is most prepared for this operation. Therefore it may remain as it is in its appearance for a very long time, even if its understanding and receptivity are exceptional. I mean that the awareness, the conscious perception of this body is infinitely superior to the awareness of all the others with which it is in contact, except at those moments—the moments—when other bodies, as if by Grace, have this perception; whereas for this body, it is a natural and constant state. It is the effective result of the fact that this Truth-Consciousness is more constantly concentrated on this group of cells than on any other—more directly. But the substitution of one vibration for the other—in circumstances, in action, in objects—occurs at the point where it can have the most striking and effectual results.  It is something I have felt very, very clearly and which one cannot feel so long as the physical ego is there, because the physical ego has the sense of its own importance and that disappears entirely with the physical ego. And when it disappears one has the precise perception that the intervention or the manifestation of the true vibration does not depend on egos or individualities—human or national individualities or even those of Nature: animals, plants, etc. It depends on a certain play of the cells and Matter in which some agglomerates are particularly favourable to the transformation—not “transformation”, but substitution, to be precise: the substitution of the vibration of Truth for the vibration of Falsehood. And this phenomenon can be quite independent of any groupings or individualities—it may be one piece here, one piece there, one thing here, one thing there—and it always corresponds to a certain quality of vibration that brings about an expansion—a receptive expansion. Then the phenomenon can take place. [Based on Aphorism 101-102

102—To the senses it is always true that the sun moves round the earth; this is false to the reason. To the reason it is always true that the earth moves round the sun; this is false to the supreme vision. Neither earth moves nor sun; there is only a change in the relation of sun-consciousness and earth-consciousness.] <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-101-102#p41,p42</ref><center>~</center>...it's a question of proportion between the amount, the sum of the vibrations that belong to the Supreme, and the sum of the vibrations that still belong to darkness. Depending on the proportion, the poisoning appears as something concrete, real, or else as something that can be eliminated, in other words, that doesn't resist the influence of the Vibration of Truth. ..and the unfavorable elements, or between the favorable and the unfavorable vibrations? And I saw very clearly: the proportion varies according to the amount of cells in the body that are under the direct Influence, that respond to the supreme Vibration alone, and the amount of other cells that still belong to the ordinary way of vibrating. It was very clear, because I could see all the possibilities, from the ordinary mass [of cells], which is completely upset by that intrusion and where you have to fight with all the ordinary methods to get rid of the undesirable element, to the totality of the cellular response to the supreme Force, which renders the intrusion perfectly innocuous.... But this is still a dream for tomorrow—we're on the way. But the proportion has become rather favorable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/november-4-1963#p17</ref><center>~</center>I quite understand a progressive change and that this substance could be made into something capable of renewing itself eternally from within outward. That would be immortality. But it seems to me that between what is now, what we are, and that other mode of life, a lot of stages might be necessary. You see, if for instance you ask these cells, with all the consciousness and experience they now have, "Is there something you cannot do?", in their sincerity they will answer, "No, what the Lord wills, I can do." That's their state of consciousness. But the appearance is otherwise. The personal experience is like this: all that I do with the Lord’s Presence, I do effortlessly, without difficulty, without fatigue, without wear and tear, like that (''Mother spreads out her arms in a great, harmonious Rhythm''),but it's still open to the whole influence from outside and the body is forced to do things that aren't directly the expression of the supreme Impulsion, hence the fatigue, the friction.... So a supramental body suspended in a world that's not the earth is not the thing!<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/september-30-1966#p34</ref>

It I don’t know if I can make myself understood, but it is a cellular willsomething I have felt very, very clearly, and a cellular endurance too—which which one cannot feel as long as the physical ego is quite intriguing. It's not a central will and central endurance (that's something else altogether)—it's cellular. That's why Sri Aurobindo used to tell me this body had been specially prepared and chosen for there, because the physical ego has the Work—because sense of its capacity for obstinate endurance own importance, and willthat disappears entirely with the physical ego. But When it disappears, one has a clear perception thatthe intervention or manifestation of the true Vibration doesn's no reason to exercise this ability uselessly! So I am making sure it relaxes now; I tell it constantlyt depend on egos or individualities (human or national individualities, "Nowor even individualities of Nature: animals, now! Just let go! Relaxplants and so on), have some fun, where's it depends on a certain play of the harm cells and Matter in it?which there are aggregates particularly favorable for the transformation to occur—not "transformation" I have to tell it : the substitution, to be quietprecise, very quietthe substitution of the Vibration of Truth for the vibration of Falsehood. And the phenomenon may be very independent of groupings and individualities (it may happen in one part here, another part there, one thing here, another thing there); and it's very surprised always corresponds to hear a certain quality of vibration that: "Ah! Can I live that way? I don't have to hurry? I causes a sort of swelling—a receptive swelling—and then, the thing can live that way?" occur.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0305/januarymarch-925-19621964#p18p42</ref>

...“transfer of power”: it's a question of proportion between is the amount, the sum of the vibrations old power that belong to the Supremewithdraws. But then, and until the sum of the vibrations that still belong body adapts to darkness. Depending on the proportionnew power, the poisoning appears as something concretethere is a period which is, realwell, or else as something that can be eliminatedcritical. As all the cells are in a state of conscious aspiration, in other wordsit’s going relatively fast, that doesn't resist but still… the influence of the Vibration of Truthminutes are long. ..and the unfavorable elements, or between the favorable and the unfavorable vibrations? And I saw very clearly: the proportion varies according to the amount But there is increasingly a sort of cells certitude in the body cells that are under the direct Influence, everything that respond happens is with a view to this transformation and this transfer of the supreme Vibration alonedirecting power. And at the very moment when things are materially painful (not even physically: materially painful), and the amount of other cells keep that still belong to the ordinary way of vibratingcertitude. It was very clearAnd so they withstand, because I could see all they endure the possibilities, from suffering without being depressed or affected in the ordinary mass [of cells]least, which with that certitude that it is completely upset by that intrusion and where you have to fight with all the ordinary methods to get rid of prepare for the undesirable elementtransformation, to that it is even the totality process of transformation and of the cellular response to the supreme Force, which renders transfer of the intrusion perfectly innocuous.... But this is still a dream for tomorrow—we're on the way. But the proportion has become rather favorabledirecting power. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0406/novemberaugust-431-19631965#p17p11</ref>

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