Chapter 6August 18, 1971

they had.

(silence

Mother takes Satprem’s hands)

Next Wednesday we’ll be quieter.

The body has only one ambition, I could say, that only the Divine exist and that it be like... like something the Divine uses and is absolutely malleable and expressive. That’s all. Until such time when it will exist only in the Divine.

There’s a kind of prescience of a state in which there is only the Divine Consciousness. That.... (Mother intently closes her eyes with an ecstatic smile.)

Only the Divine Consciousness.

The body has the impression that it has to learn a new way to live, and it is learning new things all the time. But they’re tiny little things, that is, there’s a kind of secret to be found, an attitude that must be steadfast, making circumstances as good as they can be.

It’s something equivalent to the mantra. For the time being the body repeats the mantra, but it knows that it’s.... There’s something to be learned that physically replaces the mantra.

(Mother goes within)

What’s on your mind?

What I personally find difficult is permanence – to establish a permanence. It’s very difficult.

A permanence of what? Consciousness?

Yes, consciousness.

But consciousness is permanent.

Yes, but the external consciousness isn’t permanent.79 The physical mind, for instance, may go on

repeating all sorts of useless things.