Chapter 42Condition changes with attitude of consciousness 219

And then it is complicated by all the misunderstandings and discontentments that come out (Mother makes a gesture as though a cart-load is being poured upon her), as though they were unfastened and they came out, and all that falls at the same time in order... in order that the experience might be total and in all domains.

It is as though a practical demonstration was being given at every minute of the presence of death and of the presence of immortality, like this (Mother slightly tilts her hand to the right and to the left), in the smallest things — in all things, the smallest and the biggest, and constantly; and constantly, you see... whether you are here or you are there (same gesture of tilting to one side or the other). At every second, as if you were called upon to choose between death and immortality.

And for that, I see the body must go through a serious and very thorough preparation in order to be able to bear the impact of the experience without... without any vibration of anxiety or recoil or... it must be able to maintain its peace and its constant smile.

(Long silence)

There are things... extraordinary things.

As though in everything we were required to live the presence of the opposites to find... to find what is there when the opposites join together — instead of running away when they join. That produces a result. And that in the practical life.