Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter about the remarkable mystic experiences St. Paul had, but he would not put them as experiences belonging to the supramentalised body (physical body). The Vaishnavas also spoke of a divine body which will replace this one when there is the complete siddhi. But the supramentalised body in the Mother’s experiences and realizations belongs to another class altogether. True transformation, she tells, lies in the intervention of another agent of consciousness. Here is the progress towards physical transformation made by her after the significant move by Sri Aurobindo on 5 December 1950. In that sense she had gone far beyond what was achieved prior to that year. Her concern was chiefly the physical, Matter by itself opening to the divine possibilities in it. It is the physical which has to lend itself in a dynamic way to the immortality of the spirit for the manifestation of the truth in this creation. The Mother saw the problem of structural rigidity needed to sustain form, of creating energy centres, yet that rigidity plastic to the demands of immortality which is not just a renewal of form. In order that that happens, there will be many intermediate stages, these then leading to the supramentalisation of the body proper. The Mother also saw that the state of spontaneous immortality is a thing which will happen at a much later stage. Then there is the aspect of the ‘survival’ of the supramental being in the atmosphere of prevalent mortality at present, survival against the precarious conditions in which he will come. So what is going to manifest first is the supramental Power, Power and Light as it happened on 29 February 1956.

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