Chapter 6February 25, 1970

A change of consciousness. When our consciousness changes, we will know what the

change is.

The change does not need our help in order to come, but we need to open up to the

consciousness so that it may not come in vain for us.

It has become very interesting, but one can’t speak... (Mother coughs) and it’s better not to speak.

Very interesting. I spent the whole of last night with Sri Aurobindo, but with a WORLD of explanations. He made me understand lots of things, but quite... well, extraordinary. And practical: on the present state of things.... Shouldn’t speak, that’s why I am coughing, it’s on purpose (!)

It’s extraordinarily interesting.

(silence)

A demonstration in detail of the difference between the two consciousnesses.

(silence)

Among other things and in a quite practical and positive way, he explained to me that the cause of all illnesses, all disorders, all conflicts, here in the material world, is that the two simultaneous movements (one is the movement of duration – what we could call Stability – and the other, the movement of transformation), the two movements in the original Consciousness are only one and not in contradiction; and I was shown how (not with the thought: with the consciousness), here, they are separate, and that’s what is the cause of death. It’s because they can’t be in harmony – they don’t KNOW how to be in harmony: they can, but they don’t know. One is the movement of transformation, the other the movement of stability. When they are not in harmony, or not in harmony where they should be, it causes a break in equilibrium and the being dies – things die, everything dies because of that. But put that way, it makes no sense. It’s the experience of the thing which is given.... And this also, the cough and all that – all of it, everything – it’s so simple! So obvious once you have the experience.

We could say (almost) that if the two find their equilibrium of simultaneous existence, it re-creates the Divine.... He is in us, but not in harmony.19 19This experience seems to be the continuation of the one Mother spoke of in Agenda X of 19 November 1969: “Unity =