Progress is going on at a giant’s pace—that shakes the house a little, but it goes on at a giant’s pace. It is truly interesting because it has a clarity altogether limpid and obvious, because it is solely a state of consciousness. When one has the consciousness, when you are within that, everything is all right; as soon as you fall back into the old consciousness, then the disorder returns. And that is as though a lesson given in an altogether clear and obvious way. Sri Aurobindo had written that the notion of sin has been introduced to hasten progress, and immediately man saw sin in all others—he never saw it in himself! The aphorisms of Sri Aurobindo, there were very interesting things. Some of them give me the feeling that they are a kind of transcription of the experience of the supramental consciousness that I had, in which this difference of good and evil and all that, appears as childishness. The first thing to realise is that it is the weakness of our consciousness that makes this division and that there is a Consciousness in which that does not exist, in which what we call “evil” is as much necessary as what we call “good”, and that if we can project our sensation—or our activity or our perception—into that Light, that will bring the cure. There is only one way, the ego must go. Only there is “What Thou willest, as Thou willest”. Indeed, to have a concrete sensation that this body, this does not exist, it is only used—there is only That. This feeling of That, this conscious Vastness.... In the end you do see it, a vision of this vast Force, this vast Vibration which presses, presses, presses... and then the world which wriggles under it and the thing which opens, and when it opens, that enters and spreads.

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