We are impatient about the physical transformation. But our impatience really means nothing. There is a process, and there are imponderables of time and of what is beyond it, and there has always to be the sanction of the Supreme. The Mother constantly spoke of trying it in her own body, trying it in the divine pragmatism. That was the only positive attitude possible for her, and leaving everything to the higher Will and Wisdom. She never thought that transformation could come quickly, in a jiffy. One must first appreciate that there is such a big difference between Matter as it is and the Divine Existence as Matter, that which is not at every second tied to the obscurity of a half inconscient stuff. The question as to how long it will take, could be viewed in another way. Now that the consciousness is there, a fairly well-developed mental consciousness, things can possibly go much quicker. The bulk of the work is done, says the Mother. Yet the danger of haste cannot be underestimated. Truth born too soon might shatter this imperfect earth, writes Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. “If the divine Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, the Truth manifested itself too rapidly upon the earth, the earth would be dissolved! She would not be able to bear it... brrf!” Yet the Mother had prepared herself, prepared her physical self that it could do wonderful things. The divine Presence, the divine Consciousness, the divine Truth could manifest as in a flash, could change it. She perceived that it is a Force, a Will that moves forward step by step. The truth is, there is none who is not ruled by the law of inconscience. There is prevalent disorganisation that prevents the cohesion necessary for the cells to constitute an individual body. But there is the aspiration of the cells, and there is something like a central consciousness of the body which aspires intensely, with a surrender as complete as it can make. There is peace and light, and there is the Harmony. There is at once this feeling in the cells that they live the eternity, for the eternity. “This happens many times in a day. At times it is like a mass. Sometimes it is only a thing that touches; then in the consciousness of the body it translates itself in this way, as a kind of thanksgiving: a progress in fact over the inconscience. There was, as it were, a total vision of this effort of the earth towards its divinisation. It belongs to a domain which is not yet ready to be explained, to be manifested in words. What is spoken is almost incomprehensible.”

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