… If we have to mark a few important stages in the process of physical transformation, here are these: Sri Aurobindo’s descent into death, 1950; supramental manifestation in the earth’s subtle physical, 1956; realization of the surhomme consciousness, 1958; consent for collaboration from the material Nature, 1958; the descent of the surhomme consciousness in 1969; the psychic being itself getting materialized, 1970; supramental body, 1972. It is the psychic being which will materialize itself and become the supramental being, she told on 1 July 1970. It is precisely the psychic being which survives death. So, if it materializes itself, it means the abolition of death. That is the central importance of the psychic being. Whatever is not in accordance with the Truth thus just disappears. Materialization of the psychic being gives continuity to evolution. In the material world immortality therefore means the materialization of the psychic being. The New Body makes it possible. Perhaps that is the process. Now it is the New Body which will do whatever is to be done. It is not an inert lump of matter, but is charged with the luminous dynamism of the Divine. It is going to exert pressure upon the material in the evolutionary process.

Sometimes people ask if the Mother really succeeded in her work. Did she complete it? It is said that she did not achieve all that she was to achieve. They even say that her work of physical transformation has been postponed. Is it believable? But all that sounds rather strange. The statement that the work has been postponed is an incomplete statement. There is an obligation that those who speak of “postponed” must tell us when it will be resumed. Otherwise what will be its validity? But if the work of physical transformation has been postponed in the Will of the Lord, then that becomes a greater achievement for the Mother, that now whatever has to happen will happen in the Will of the Lord. Isn’t that glorious?

The Supramental Presence is a sufficient, a necessary and sufficient basis for that to happen. That surely is a greater gain than perhaps the transformation itself—the working of the Will of the Supreme in this Creation.

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