Chapter 8April 24, 1968

And that [new state] isn’t the result of a concentration or anything else: it’s the normal way of being, constant at last. But there are still divisions, in the sense that there is an attitude of consciousness observing another, and yet another observing the first two – all that is still... (fluctuating gesture) Like a play of different consciousnesses observing one another, objectifying one another. So it’s not yet the thing.

All that is going on in the body – perhaps in different parts of the body, I don’t know. There are GRADATIONS of consciousness, or more or less complete identifications, according to certain bodily functions – I don’t know. And beneath, there are still old undercurrents of mental influence, from what we are used to calling the "higher" mind (intuitive mind and so on). And then, all around, a whole play of forces, suggestions, formations, which comes from outside. I say "from outside," but there’s no sense of "outside"; there’s no such sense, no longer any sense of "these people here" and "those people there" – it’s not like that, no longer at all, even for the body.

(Mother abruptly goes into

a long contemplation that

lasts till the end)

To be continued!

(Message given by Mother)

"In the spiritual order of things, the higher we project our view and our aspiration, the greater the Truth that seeks to descend upon us, because it is already there within us and calls for its release from the covering that conceals it in manifested Nature."

Sri Aurobindo