Chapter 2January 12, 1962
Book 1. January
(Note from Mother to Satprem concerning his question of January 9, on the capacities required to gain
access to the supramental world:)
Capacity
for
indefinite expansion
of
consciousness on
all
planes including the material. Limitless
plasticity, to
be
able
to
follow the movement of becoming. Perfect
equality abolishing
all
possibility of ego reaction.
(Concerning Satprem's question on the experience of the "supramental ship":)
Did you get my note, petit?
I've said something on the subject somewhere.... Do you remember that gentleman from Madras who had asked a question?15 There was an indication there....
Because I followed the thread, I put myself back in contact with the experience of the supramental ship, and I noticed that it had a DECISIVE effect on my position: the required conditions were established quite clearly, precisely, and definitively by that experience. In that respect, it was interesting.
Once and for all it has swept away all these notions – not merely ordinary moral notions, but everything people here in India consider necessary for the spiritual life. In that respect, it was very instructive. And first and foremost, this so-called ascetic purity.... Ascetic purity is merely the rejection of all vital movements. Instead of taking these movements and turning them towards the Divine, instead of seeing, that is, the supreme Presence in them (and so letting the Supreme deal with them 15An American, a friend of President Kennedy, who had made an analogy between tracking down a deer in the forest and tracking down the Supermind: " How can the Supermind be detected, in the way a huntsman would detect a deer in the