To replace the mental law of intelligence by that of a spiritualised consciousness—that is what finally all amounts to. The body is now learning to see the difference between the two, the intellectual and the spiritual consciousness. It increases a hundredfold the possibilities of the body. When the body is ruled by the Spirit and the Consciousness, there appears an incomparable possibility and flexibility. It is that which will give it the capacity to prolong its life. All the laws of Nature lose their despotism. That is the discovery which is being made. It is like a progressive victory over all the imperatives. As the process becomes more and more perfect, more and more integral, total, leaving nothing behind—it is the victory over death. Not that the dissolution of cells which death represents does not exist, but it will exist only when it will be necessary: not as an absolute law, but as one of the procedures, when it is necessary. “Perhaps it is that which the ancient seers meant when they spoke of transferring the power of Nature or the power of Prakriti to Purusha, transferring it from Prakriti to Purusha. It is perhaps that which they expressed in this way.”   more »