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== The Importance of the Body in Individualisation ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If your body were not made in the rigid form it is—for it is terribly rigid, isn't it?—well, if all that were not so fixed, if you had no skin, here, like this, solid, if externally you were the reflection of what you are in the vital and mental fields, it would be worse than being a jelly-fish! Everything would fuse into everything else, like this... Oh, what a mess it would be! That is why it was at first necessary to give a very rigid form. Afterwards we complain about it. We say, "The physical is fixed, it is a nuisance; it lacks plasticity, it lacks suppleness, it hasn't that fluidity which can enable us to merge into the Divine." But this was absolutely necessary, for without this... if you simply went out of your body (most of you can't do it because the vital being is hardly more individualised than the physical), if you came out of your body and went into the vital world, you would see that all things there intermingle, they are mixed, they divide; all kinds of vibrations, currents of forces come and go, struggle, try to destroy one another, take possession of each other, absorb each other, throw each other out... and so it goes on! But it is very difficult to find a real personality in all this. These are forces, movements, desires, vibrations.</span>[<ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/28-july-1954#p47 http:</u></incarnateword.in/cwm/06/28-july-1954#p47]ref>
<div style="color:#007cd5;">(The Mother; 28 July, 1954)</div>
== The Individualisation of the Subtle Bodies ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">You know, when you sleep, the inner beings are not concentrated upon the body, they go out and become more or less independent—a limited independence, but independence all the same—and they go to dwell in their own domains. The mind more so, for it is hardly held within the body, it is only concentrated but not contained in the body. The vital also goes beyond the body, but it is more concentrated upon the body. The mind however is such a supple substance that it is sufficient to think about a person in order to be with that person, at least partially, mentally. If you think strongly of a place, a part of your mind is there; distance, so to say, does not exist. Of course, to have a mind centralised around the body requires good training. Few people have a mind with a well-defined form: it is like clouds which roll, come and go. Even to have a vital with a form similar to that of your physical body, an analogous form, it must be very much individualised, very much centralised. The mind still more; it must be completely individualised, centralised, organised around the psychic centre in order to have a definite form.</span>[<ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/10-march-1951#p17 http:</u></incarnateword.in/cwm/04/10-march-1951#p17]ref>
<div style="color:#007cd5;">(The Mother, 10 March, 1951)</div>
<div style="color:#000000;">But the vital does not go to rest nor does the mental being. Generally they are dissolved. It is only if one has followed a yoga throughout his whole life, if one has taken great care to individualise, to centralise the vital and the mental around the psychic being that they remain—that happens once in ten million cases, it is very exceptional. </div>
<div style="color:#007cd5;">(The Mother, 10 March, 1951)</div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There are similar examples, for instance, among musicians. There are pianists who have individualised their hands and made them so wonderfully conscious that these hands are not decomposed—not the physical hands: the hands of the subtle physical and vital—they are not deposed, do not dissolve at the time of death. They remain as instruments to play the piano and always try to incarnate in the hands of someone playing the piano. I have known some cases of people who, as they were about to play, felt as though other hands entered into theirs and started playing really marvellously, in a way they could not have done themselves.</span>[<ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/3-october-1956#p39 http:</u></incarnateword.in/cwm/08/3-october-1956#p39]ref>
<div style="color:#007cd5;">(The Mother; 3 October, 1956)</div>
<div style="color:#000000;">From the vital point of view, take the case of a great musician who has worked all his life to make his external being a good instrument for music; he has organised this vital power in his body for playing music; well then, his hands, for instance, are so individualised in their ability to play, that they can persist subtly even after death, with their form, a form analogous to the old physical form. They float in the vital world and are attracted by people who have similar capacities; they try to become identified with them. A person who is sensitive enough, receptive enough, can become identified with these hands and execute wonderful things, profit by all the individualisation of the past life of these hands.</div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#007cd5;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/10-march-1951#p24</u></ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#007cd5;">(The Mother, 10 March, 1951)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#00000a;"> </span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">“</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">..to the individual vital plane there corresponds a cosmic vital world. When a human being is sufficiently developed he possesses an individualised vital being with organs of sight, hearing, smell, etc. So a person who has a well-developed vital being can see in the vital world with his vital sight, consciously and with the memory of what he has seen. This is what makes a vision.”</span>[<ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-15#p4 http://incarnateword.in</cwmu></10/aphorism-15#p4]ref>
== Individualisation of the Mental Being ==
<div style="color:#000000;">… the extent to which the mental being is formed and individualised varies greatly from one individual to the next. In the great mass of human beings the mind is something fluid which has no organisation of its own, and therefore it is not a personality. </div>
<div style="color:#007cd5;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-11#p3</u></ref></div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">But as soon as the mental being is formed, organised, individualised, and has become a personality, it does not depend, it no longer depends on the body for its existence, and it therefore survives the body. The earth's mental atmosphere is filled with beings, mental personalities which lead an entirely independent existence, even after the disappearance of the body; they can reincarnate in a new body when the soul, that is to say, the true Self, reincarnates, thus carrying with it the memory of its previous lives.</span>[<ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-11#p4 http://incarnateword.in</cwmu></10/aphorism-11#p4]ref>
<div style="color:#000000;">Mind is the final individualising operation of the all-comprehending and all-apprehending Supermind, the process by which its consciousness works individualised in each form from the standpoint proper to it and with the cosmic relations which proceed from that standpoint,</div>
== The Subconscient, Conscient and the Superconscient ==
<div style="color:#000000;">The Transcendent, the Supracosmic is absolute and free in Itself beyond Time and Space and beyond the conceptual opposites of finite and infinite. But in cosmos It uses Its liberty of self-formation, Its Maya, to make a scheme of Itself in the complementary terms of unity and multiplicity, and this multiple unity It establishes in the three conditions of the subconscient, the conscient and the superconscient. For actually we see that the Many objectivised in form in our material universe start with a subconscious unity which expresses itself openly enough in cosmic action and cosmic substance, but of which they are not themselves superficially aware. In the conscient the ego becomes the superficial point at which the awareness of unity can emerge; but it applies its perception of unity to the form and surface action and, failing to take account of all that operates behind, fails also to realise that it is not only one in itself but one with others. This limitation of the universal "I" in the divided ego-sense constitutes our imperfect individualised personality. But when the ego transcends the personal consciousness, it begins to include and be overpowered by that which is to us superconscious; it becomes aware of the cosmic unity and enters into the Transcendent Self which here cosmos expresses by a multiple oneness.</div>
== <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#00000a;">Inconscient and Individualisation</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#00000a;"> </span> ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The inconscient is not individualised and when you go down into the inconscient in yourself, it is the inconscient of matter. One can't say that each individual has his own inconscient, for that would already be a beginning of individualisation...</span>[<ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/6-january-1951#p14 http:</u></incarnateword.in/cwm/15/6-january-1951#p14]ref>
<div style="color:#007cd5;">(The Mother; 6 January, 1951)</div>
== Transformation of the Inconscient ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The light, the consciousness that comes down into this inconscient in order to transform it must necessarily be a consciousness that is close enough to be able to touch it. It is not possible to conceive of a light—the supramental light, for example—that would have the power to individualise the inconscient. But, through a conscious, individualised being, this light can be brought down into the inconscient and gradually make it conscious.</span>[<ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/6-january-1951#p15 http:</u></incarnateword.in/cwm/15/6-january-1951#p15]ref>
<div style="color:#007cd5;">(The Mother; 6 January, 1951)</div>