The cells of the body have made such tremendous progress that they are constantly offering a prayer to the supreme Lord of the Universe, they imploring for the strength and the beauty, the harmonious perfection needed to be the Divine’s instruments upon earth. The body is fully awake, the cells live consciously, aspire consciously, by themselves, without the interference from the vital and the mental: the consciousness is working directly in them. The mind of the physical has been converted, has become silent; in that silence it receives the inspiration of the Consciousness. This mind of the physical, the physical’s mind, is illumined, is conscious, organised, and it expresses itself in prayers. While all is one single substance, the material cells have to obtain the capacity to receive and to manifest consciousness. This is what is being done. There is certitude that a new form will take birth, which will be what Sri Aurobindo called the supramental form. “It is the body that ends by saying the mantra! Spontaneously, so spontaneously that even if you by chance think of other things, your body will be saying the mantra. And it is the body that aspires, the body that says the mantra, the body that wants the light, the body that wants the consciousness.” The significant aspect is, once it is done, once one body has done it, it has the capacity to pass it on to others. The progress is there, and there are happy conversations among the cells: “Imbecile that you are! Why do you have fear? Don’t you see it is the Lord himself who is doing this to transform you?” Yet the other: “Ah! ...” The difficulty is, of these “Ah-wallahs”. But there is the advance, and it looks so wonderful. Now, there is a kind of suppleness, there is plasticity. “And then, the splendour of the Presence.” Wow!

This physical’s mind is, pointed out Sri Aurobindo, an impossibility, but impossibility not in the sense of hopelessness or infeasibility but in terms of impracticality at a point of advance; in fact Sri Aurobindo worked to remove that impossibility—and this is what the Mother means while referring it to him. She said on another occasion, 18 December 1971, “Sri Aurobindo has said that if the physical mind is transformed, the transformation of the body would follow quite naturally.” The physical’s mind receiving the supramental Light he called as the Mind of Light which was already established in him and which he passed on to the Mother the moment he withdrew on 5 December 1950. Sri Aurobindo himself has said: “It is only when the Supramental manifests in the body-mind that its presence can be permanent.”

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