Chapter 131358–361

This state of things must change for the supramental consciousness to reign on earth. But although the supramental consciousness has been at work on earth for more than a year,8 has anything changed in this miserable condition?

28 February 1970 Since the supramental consciousness is at work on earth, won’t these miserable conditions change in spite of everything?

Naturally, the first effect will be a change of consciousness, first among the most receptive, and then in a greater number of people. A change in the general conditions of collective life can only come later, perhaps long after individual reactions have been transformed. The first noticeable result is a heightening of the general confusion, because the old principles have lost their authority, and men (except for a very few) are not ready to obey the Divine Command, because they are incapable of perceiving it.

1 March 1970 362 – O soul of India, hide thyself no longer with the darkened

Pandits9 of the Kaliyuga in the kitchen and the chapel, veil not thyself with the soulless rite, the obsolete law and the unblessed money of the Dakshina;10 but seek in thy soul, ask of God and recover thy true Brahmin-hood and Kshatriyahood with the eternal Veda; restore the hidden truth of the Vedic sacrifice, return to the fulfilment of an older and mightier Vedanta.

8 Mother is referring to the “New Consciousness” (or Superman Consciousness) which manifested on 1 January 1969. 9 Scholars and interpreters of sacred texts. 10 Offering made by the devotee to the brahmin priest.

This is to free us from so-called religious conventions which tell us what to do and what not to do. We must recover the true wisdom and receive directly from the Divine the precise indications for living in and for the Truth.

2 March 1970 363 – Limit not sacrifice to the giving up of earthly goods or

the denial of some desires and yearnings, but let every thought and every work and every enjoyment be an offering to God within thee. Let thy steps walk in thy Lord, let thy sleep and waking be a sacrifice to Krishna.

364 – This is not according to my Shastra11 or my Science,

say the men of rule, formalists. Fool! is God then only a book that there should be nothing true and good except what is written?

365 – By which standard shall I walk, the word that God

speaks to me, saying, “This is My will, O my servant,” or the rules that men who are dead, have written? Nay, if I have to fear and obey any, I will fear and obey God rather and not the pages of a book or the frown of a Pandit.

366 – Thou mayst be deceived, wilt thou say, it may not be

God’s voice leading thee? Yet do I know that He aban-dons not those who have trusted Him even ignorantly, yet have I found that He leads wisely and lovingly even when He seems to deceive utterly, yet would I rather fall into the snare of the living God than be saved by trust in a dead formulary.

11 Scriptures; prescribed law.