Chapter 20March 17, 1973

The old consciousness (which isn’t at all a mental consciousness, but anyway... ), the old consciousness keeps repeating its mantra – there is a mantra – it keeps repeating its mantra, which makes a sort of backdrop, a contacting point. It’s very peculiar. But beyond that, there’s something full of light and force, but it’s so new that... it causes almost a panic. And if it does that to me, with the long experience I have... if it has the same effect on others, I think we’ll all end up lunatics! Well.

I think we have to remain very tranquil if we don’t want to lose the thread!

(There follows a long discussion by the teachers)

But our language is... there’s like a cloche over it, a mental cloche it doesn’t want to free itself from. It is truly a difficult time.

I think we should be very, VERY TRANQUIL – very tranquil.

(Mother turns to one of the teachers

and to all the teachers)

I will tell you my old mantra. It keeps the outer being very tranquil: OM, Namo, Bhagavateh.... Three words.

To me they meant:

OM: I implore the Supreme Lord. Namo: I obey Him. Bhagavateh: Make me divine.

(silence)

This, I found, has the power to calm everything.

I had a question I wanted to ask you.

What is it?

I was wondering about the difference between.... You remember, in the past you used to go into

trance, into the inner states. I wanted to know the difference between the trance you knew in the past and the one now?

So it isn’t a “trance.”

No.

No, it’s another type of consciousness. The difference is such that I wonder... sometimes I wonder how it is possible – at times, it is so new, so unexpected it’s almost painful.

Aah!...

So I ask myself, “What?” And externally I see but one solution: externally – I repeat OM Namo Bhagavateh. Constantly – that’s for the outer being. And inside... (gesture, hands open in immobile contemplation)...

(silence)

...an extraordinary silence. I think I’ve been in it for a few minutes, but sometimes it’s an hour.... And the opposite too: I feel time drags on and on, and it’s been only a few minutes. Which means that time is different. But then, if the value of time changes.... Our time is based on the sun, you see, but there, it is another reference.

So, in other words, you don’t actually go out of Matter?

No, not at all.

It’s a new condition IN Matter.

Yes. Yes, yes, exactly. And ruled by something other than the sun don’t know what.... Probably the Supramental consciousness.

(silence)

At mealtimes, for example, sometimes I think I have eaten very fast, and it has taken me more than an hour. Other times, I feel it took a long time – it took just a few minutes. So if you look at that from an ordinary standpoint, you feel that... people will think you’re crazy. So there’s a sort of recommendation: silence, silence, silence, silence....

Not too much with me, please!

(Mother laughs)

I wanted to know if personally... if personally I was in the right direction.

(Mother is absorbed for a few seconds)

The answer was immediately YES, but it wasn’t I who gave the answer.