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Notes on the Way
(Mother:) “Do you read the Bulletin sometimes? I give there my recent experiences, of what I am doing on my body, where the Supramental Force is working incessantly to transform it. These are moments lived, states of consciousness which unify my whole being, its movements, and its sensations in one single aspiration, infusing the Light, the Peace and the Ananda in a perpetual interchange. It is this, the effect of the transformation.
All this, I am giving a little of these experiences in the Bulletin under the title ‘Notes on the Way’ or ‘A Propos’. If you read it, it will give you a glimpse of what I have been able to establish in my body in a permanent way – the effect of the work of the Supramental transformation. This will guide you with assurance to advance on the way.”[1]
1964
7 October The material difficulties are aggravated 1 
One must have endurance 1 Pessimism of the material consciousness 2 Matter to be transformed, not annulled 3 Call of the cells 3 Cells: a will to keep together 4 Power of rejection in the cells 5 Inertia not a quality essential to Matter 5 Mental constructions block receptivity 6 No need of formula of a Divine 6
1965
12 January Bombardment by adverse forces 8
“No right to exteriorise myself” 8 Body must change from within 9
24 March Experiencing origin of inspirations and movements 10
Teach body to remain immobile 13 Aspiration and acceptance of supreme will in the cells 14 Cells experiencing transition 14 Physical yoga 15
21 August Transfer of power 16
Organisation of material mind 16 New way of perceiving 17 Organisation of material mind 18 Physical mind and material, cellular mind 18 Critical period during transfer of power 20
27 November Pulling at the Supramental 22
The vital and the Truth 23 Vision of humanity and the new creation 24 Effort of transformation reduced to small number 25 Humanity under the supramental influence 26 Period of transition painful 26 Impatience to “prepare” humanity has disappeared 27 Superior humanity with a human harmony 27 No stress for premature transformation 28 Sex, food and beings of transition 28 Body not ready to exist without food 29 Each one is what he must be 29
1966
22 January Experience of life as expression of choice 30
Unreality of necessity and fatality 30 Illusion of life 31 Power to change circumstances 32 Transition to conscious functioning of the body 33 Habits of thousands of years to be changed 33 Acting on difficulties of the world 33
18 May LSD experiences 35
Subjectivity of vital images 36 Man’s relation with other worlds and beings 37 Man: potential master of all states 38 Man and the gods 38 The Supreme is the one reality 39
28 September Suffering pulls Matter out of inertia 41
Intensifying aspiration of the cells 41 True use of thought 42 Divine compassion 42 Suffering, progress and transforming action 43 The content of Ananda 43
30 September References to physical transformation: a letter of Sri Aurobindo 45
Passage from man to new physical being 46 Transformation not isolated from the world 51 Safety of the new beings 52 Spontaneous immortality not possible for present 53
1967
11 January Without ego, feeling of insult impossible 54
Physical reaction to injury 54 Ego as an impersonal entity 55 Mother and the actions of others 56 The Lord laughs 56
21 January The cells are becoming conscious 57
Perception of true Matter 58 Replacing the physical ego 58 The body no longer resists 59
4 March Approaches to transformation 60
7 March Death 61
After death: contact with physical life 62
24 May Defining the Divine 64
Defining God 67
24 June Transition to a body moved by divine Presence and Consciousness 69
Transformation of man, or a new being? 71 Intermediary beings 72 Weight of habits, pessimism, earth atmosphere 73 Battle fought in the body 74 Material contagion 74
26 August The “good” and the True, the Truth 75
Realisation of the supreme vision in the mixed material world 75 Man’s vision is incomplete 76 Progressive manifestation 76 Suffering: progress in the presence of Inconscience 76 Progress in joy and harmony 77
30 August Experience in a place where material life gets re-organised 78
Translation and memory of subtle experiences 80 Madness and insincerity 81 Changing matter 82 The condition for transformation 83
15 November Matter as it is and divine existence 84
Inconscient must become conscious in divine way 85 Too rapid manifestation would dissolve earth 85 This instrument made to realise, not reveal 86 No stopping to tell the story 87 New Christs, Kalkis, Supermen 87 Aspiration in central consciousness of body 88 Cells feeling of living in eternity 88 The obscure work 89
22 November Prayer of the cells of the body 91
Now the body wants to participate 92 What is done in a single body can be done in all bodies 92 Awakening consciousness in the cells 93 A bodily consciousness independent of the vital and mental 93 Physical (material) mind converted 93 Mind and vital withdrawn 94 Body to become base for divine life 95 Change in consciousness of body far from manifesting externally 95 Material cells must receive and manifest consciousness 95 Stages in transformation 96 Superhuman being may pass unperceived 96 Artists and musicians: independent body consciousness 98 It is the body that aspires 98 Body rebuilt as a conscious being 99 Body has direct contact without any intermediary 99 Capacity to pass experience on to other bodies 100 Conversations among the cells 101
29 November Feeling of being a different person at each Darshan 102
Single consciousness can manifest in two bodies 104 Many beings, forces, personalities manifest through this body 104 Darshan of the 24th November 105
30 December Governance of body: intelligence replaced by spiritual consciousness 106
Laws of nature have lost their despotism 107
1968
13 March Only That exists 108
In the material consciousness knowledge brings power 109 The “why” of suffering and evil 109 The person 110
16 March Creation of equilibrium 111
Separations 111 Fusion of opposites 111 Realisation for which universe created 112 Frailty of and eternity of the form 113
22 August Seeing people 115
28 August Onrush of a new creation 116
Visions of the future world 117 Questions by the body about Matter 119 Cells want contact with the true being 120 Penetration of supramental forces into the body 122 Mental and vital: passing instruments for grinding Matter 124 Perception of soul states 125 Most wonderful hours that one can have on earth 126 Vision of temples with living deities 126 Body experiences all states of consciousness 126
25 September Self-deception in good faith 128
Psychic cannot deceive, but lacks mental precision 129 Each acts according to his own limited consciousness 129 Problem of identification with the Supreme 129 Supramental being essentially different 130 Direct contact of psychic being with substance of the body 130 Valuation of vibrations 130 Mental precision, vital intensity and the Supramental 131
23 November Everything pervaded by divine presence 132
No new religions 133 Separation 133 “I have lived all the horrors of creation” 134 Changing the physical fact 135 Concentrating the Presence when seeing people 136 Notion of “descent” 137 There is nothing but the Lord 137
27 November The body’s knowledge through consciousness 139
Surrender of the body 140 What has caused separation? 140 Suffering and Ananda 141
21 December Mind and vital eliminated 143
The body left to itself 143 Rapid reversal of consciousness in the body 144 Can one body be transformed alone? 145 Time needed for collective change 146 Possibility of sudden change 146 Fragility simultaneous with feeling of eternity 146 Wonderful moments, hours of suffering 147
1969
1 January Superman consciousness 148
4 January Superman consciousness: smiling, benevolent 149
8 January Superman consciousness identified 153
18 January Superman consciousness: a mentor and protecting power 154
15 February Superman consciousness: a mentor of the body 157
Superman consciousness: no half measures 159
22 February The immobility of the Inconscient 161
17 May Individuality and separation 165
Body experiences all states of consciousness 165 Next step of creation: return to the True Consciousness 166 State of being automatically one with Supreme Consciousness 168
24 May Body knows that death is no escape 169
The “why” of suffering 170 Perfect acceptance 172
28 May Only solution: direct contact of the physical with the Supreme 173
The body has taken its stand 173
31 May Auroville 174
Confusion in the world 175
19 November The why and how of creation 197
Unity and opposites 198 Separation and evolution 199 A clear vision: everything has its place 199 Time and equilibrium 200 Unity = power and rest combined 201 The individual centre of perception 203 The supramental consciousness 203 Supramental consciousness: must change appearances gradually 204 Grace acts so all may go as quickly as possible 204 Supramental consciousness: perception of perfection at each instant 205 Supramental consciousness: Truth imposes itself without pressure 205 Body’s experience of supramental consciousness 206
10 December Condition depends upon state of consciousness 208
Man must perfect himself without waiting for others 208
13 December Aphorisms of Sri Aurobindo 210
Suppression 211 Idea of good and bad prevents offering 212 Writing letters dictated by the Consciousness 213 Ego must disappear 215 Humanity clings in order to climb 216
27 December Everything comes to make you go forward 217
Physical experience uncertain source of knowledge 217 Non-intervention in the work of the Lord 218 Condition changes with attitude of consciousness 219 Presence of death and immortality 220 Body must be prepared to bear impact of experience 220
1970
31 January Everything has been decided 221
Remnants of Falsehood cause of all ailing 221 Consciousness of totality and smallest detail 222 Body’s experience of death without dying 222 Change-over of authority in body and in nations 223 Individuals more sensitive as time of transition approaches 223
14 March Sri Aurobindo’s Aphorisms 224
The Action of the new consciousness 226 Mental construction makes you by-pass the truth 226 The body has truly changed 227 Change-over of authority: transition sometimes painful 228 Physical determinism no longer inevitable 228 Sri Aurobindo’s work in subtle physical 229 Change is done; details to be worked out 229 Victory of the superman consciousness 230 Battle in this body 230
20 May Mind is the greatest difficulty 234
27 June Mental expression of experience inadequate 235
Change of attitude changes suffering to bliss 235 Explanation of experience inadequate 236
1 July Psychic being will materialise as supramental being 238
Only what is not in accordance with Truth will be abolished 239
5 August The Consciousness working for sincerity 240
Body wants to go to school 240 Relations with others 241 Body without sense of personal limitation 242 New organisation of the body 243
1971
11 January Physical sight and hearing replaced by identification by consciousness 244
16 January Experience during paralysis of leg 245
“I have changed very much” 248 Something in physical world not yet opened to the divine vibration 249 Matter being prepared to receive 250
3 March New way of seeing and hearing 251
Struggle against people who come here to be comfortable 252
1 May World in turmoil: one must rise above 253
Find the Divine in the world as it is 254
22 May Possibility of success 255
To be a limpid transmitter 255 Catastrophe or true victory 256 Pessimism is the demon’s weapon 256 Decisive victory over adverse forces 257
9 June Onrush of Falsehood 258
Body knows it exists only through the Divine 259 Time of ego has passed 260
17 July If the Supreme destroyed Falsehood, there would be no world any more 261
Vanity, deception 261 Cling to the Divine 262 Body knows what is going to happen 262 Universalisation of the body 263
21 July “I am beginning to know what is going to happen” 264
Human consciousness deforms divine Action 264 Passage from this life to that Life 265
28 August Ways of seeing the world 266
Nestle in the Divine 266 A dream veiling a Reality 267
1 September To exist only through the Divine 269
The converted physical will be solid 269 To create a physical capable of bearing the power 269 Appearance will be the last to change 270 What refuses to receive must fall away 271
29 September Illness is a falsehood 272
16 October Body’s condition depends on how it is linked to the Divine 273
Become conscious that all is divine 274
30 October A consciousness at the same time individual and global 275
Consciousness clear; can the body follow? 276
17 November Consciousness no longer a point but in all things 277
18 December Physical (body-) mind is being converted 279
“I have become another person” 280 The psychic and the transition 280 Body has given itself entirely 281 New way of seeing and hearing 282 Surrender and trust 282 One may live, die or live eternally 283
22 December Physical (body-) mind and the Supramental 284
Introduce faith into the subconscient 285
25 December We create difficulties 286
Things change physically according to attitude 286 Everything is a phenomenon of consciousness 287 The Divine Consciousness 288 Goal of creation 289
1972
9 February Unified and un-unified consciousness 290
26 February The physical (body-) mind 293
Enveloped by the Divine 294
8 March A pressure for progress 297
The egoism of Matter 298 Body never stable unless linked truly to the Divine 299 Take the right attitude and the thing is done 300 Resistance of the subconscient 300
24 March “I had a body altogether new” 301
25 March Mother’s new body 302
2 April “We are here to prepare the way for the new creation” 307
“I am not old” 307 Heroism 307 “Tell your ego: ’your hour is gone.’ ” 307
12 April Human stupidity 309
Resistance of the subconscient 309 To be conscious of the Divine surpasses everything 310 To be a child sitting upon the mind and playing 311
6 May What is good is getting better; what is bad is getting worse 313
Values have intensified 314 Whole creation must want nothing but the Divine 315 Power of the Supramental 315 Truly a new world 316 The reign of ego must be ended 316 Descent of the supramental world 316
30 August Consciousness replacing thought 319
The true attitude and the imbecility of matter 320 “What Thou willest”—only refuge 321
25 October Subconscient contradictions rising up 323
To forget the Divine momentarily spells catastrophe 323 The Divine must do the battling 324 An image for fixing one’s attention 324
4 November The beatitude ready for us 325
Nestle within the Divine 325
8 November The supramental consciousness 326
Activity in perfect peace 326
20 December Sri Aurobindo 328
30 December Two extremes at the same time 330
The body has one prayer 330
1973
7 February Only one solution for Falsehood 331
10 March “What Thou willest” 332
- ↑ Blessings of the Grace: Conversations with the Mother Recollected by Mona Sarkar and Some of Her Written Answers, p.45
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