Chapter 7April 23, 1968

So it’s an attempt to realize.

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(Mother then goes into a long contemplation that will last till the end.)

Do you have anything to ask?

Are things all right?

Oh, it’s very interesting.... These days seem to be decisive ones. All supports are done away with, there remains only That One.

(Mother shows a brochure on Auroville; the first photograph in it shows the all-white urn under a vast

sky.)

It’s very fine. It has something... I don’t know (Mother drives her fist down into the Earth), like a Law of Destiny: something that imposes itself.

(silence)

Did I tell you that a Swedish or Norwegian lady wants to send me a big crucifixion?... I did. But I didn’t show you the two texts. You see, I chose a photo of the galaxy, then a photo of Auroville that somewhat looks like the first, and then, under the crucifixion, we’ll have in big letters (Mother reads):

"The Divine Consciousness crucified by man’s desires."

Then, in very small letters, like this, we’ll put under the photo of Auroville:

"The Divine Consciousness manifested through human unity."

We’ll see! The lady has a lot of goodwill, we’ll see the response in her country.

that "Divine Consciousness" had to be replaced throughout by "Perfect Consciousness." I stared at him:

"What!" "Yes, that’s what we’ve been told."

Then I said (laughing), "Who’s the idiot who told you that!" "But he said you had said so!"

Then I asked him, "Tell me his name so I may give him a good slap!" Naturally, there’s no question of changing anything. What happened was that people in Russia, Yugoslavia who translated it... (it was translated into a certain number of languages, now I don’t remember), they asked me for an alternative to the word "Divine," because... In Russia, they go one better, the word is banned! Using the word "divine" is forbidden! So I said all right. I said, "FOR RUSSIA, you may, if you wish, put ‘Perfect Consciousness’ instead of ‘Divine Consciousness.’" I pointed out to them (laughing), "It’s somewhat diminished, it’s brought down a little, but never mind!"

Here, in the French brochure, it’s "Divine." I said if they wanted another word in Russian or German (in German T. translated it into "the highest" [Consciousness]; I told her, "It’s rather poor, but anyway"), well, I said I wouldn’t protest. In Chinese it’s "Divine." I think it’s "Divine" in Japanese too.

In German, they asserted, "Oh, if we put ‘Divine,’ people will immediately think of God...." I replied (laughing), "Not necessarily, if they’re not idiots!"

But it has given me a very precise picture of what would happen if for some reason or other I were no longer here.... Everyone would use my name to... (Mother laughs) It would be frightening!

Yes.

* * * Mother then goes into a contemplation:

It’s very, very interesting, and very strange. A strange sensation.... It’s been like that for, I don’t know, a long time, but these last few days it has become so intense and so precise.... A sensation of being like this (gesture of hanging in suspense), of having gone out of an old way of being (not a personal way – terrestrial, let us say) and being on the verge – it’s on the verge – of entering a new way of being; and a sensation of being... like this (same gesture of hanging between two worlds).

The entire old way of being (way of feeling, thinking, even the state of consciousness) is seen... not exactly as a distortion or falsification, but something like that – it’s not that: it’s the human way of being. And it’s necessarily the way of being that resulted from intensive mental development.

What’s growing quite clear is – Consciousness. It’s no longer explained with words or defined or... it’s no longer that, it’s – Consciousness (or rather one feels one knows what it is), Consciousness. That’s the state: Consciousness. But it’s still a fragmented consciousness, which is (I can’t say "making effort" because there’s no effort), which is mutating into a total consciousness. So that is the transition (same gesture in suspense). It’s still a consciousness (not exactly individual or personal, but fragmented, or in other words, which has been objectified), a consciousness which is AWARE of its