Chapter 61What refuses to receive must fall away

(Silence)

I feel... it flows in this way (Mother makes a gesture across herself) constantly.

It is perhaps that, Divine Love in Matter. (Mother laughs a great deal.) It is so intense and glowing at the same time — glowing. And it is so strong... it is so strong that one can hardly call it by the name “Love”, for it does not correspond to anything that one understands.

Yes, I too do not... I am like this (gesture towards the forehead): nothing, nothing, nothing, empty, empty, empty.... There (gesture upward and wide), there, it is... yes, it is a golden vastness.

Yes.

(Silence)

I have a queer feeling that it is a kind of... as though the shell, or the bark of trees, the shell of a tortoise were melting, and the body itself is not like this (Mother makes a gesture of opening out, as though the body were bursting out towards the sun). That which to man seems like Matter is... as though something hardened that must fall away because it does not receive. And in this body, here (Mother touches the skin of her hand), it tries... it tries to (same gesture of opening out). Oh! It is strange, it is a strange sensation. If one could hold on long enough for the thing to melt, then that would be the true beginning.