Consciousness and Health
Physical laws*
From the minute it (the body) is conscious, it is conscious of its own falsehood! It is conscious of this law, of that law, of this third law, that fourth law, this tenth law — everything is a ‘law’. We are subject to physical laws: this will produce such and such a result; if you do that, this will happen, etc.’ Oh! It reeks! I know it well. I know it very well. These laws reek of falsehood. In the body, we have no faith in the divine Grace, none, none, none, none! Those who have not undergone a tapasya (Yogic discipline or askesis) as I have say, ‘Yes all these inner moral things, feelings, psychology, all that is very good; we want the Divine and we are ready to … But all the same, material facts are material facts, they have their concrete reality, after all; an illness is an illness, food is food, and everything you do has a consequence, and when you are…’ — bah, bah, bah, bah, bah!
We must understand that this isn’t true — it isn’t true, it’s a falsehood, all this is sheer falsehood. It is NOT TRUE, it is not true!
If only we would accept the Supreme inside our bodies, if we had the experience I had a few days ago: the supreme Knowledge in action along with the complete abolition of all consequences, past and future. Each second has its own eternity and its own law, which is a law of absolute truth.
… It is a hard path. I try to make it as comfortable as possible, but nevertheless, it is a hard path. And it is obvious that it cannot be otherwise. You are beaten and battered until you understand. Until you are in that state in which all bodies are your body…
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… but it is so deeply rooted: all the reactions of the body-consciousness are like that, with a kind of shrinking at the idea of allowing a higher power to intervene.
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From the positive point of view, I am convinced that we agree on the result to be obtained, that is, an integral and unreserved consecration — in love, knowledge and action — to the Supreme AND TO HIS WORK. I say to the Supreme and to his work because consecration to the Supreme alone is not enough. Now we are here for the supramental realization, this is what is expected of us, but to reach it, our consecration to it must be total, unreserved, absolutely integral….
From the negative point of view — I mean the difficulties to be overcome — one of the most serious obstacles is that the ignorant and falsifying outer consciousness, the ordinary consciousness legitimizes all the so-called physical laws, causes, effects and consequences, all that science has discovered physically and materially. All this is an unquestionable reality to the consciousness, a reality that remains independent and absolute even in the face of the eternal divine Reality.
And it is so automatic that it is unconscious.
When it is a question of movements like anger, desire, etc., you recognize that they are wrong and must disappear, but when material laws are in question — laws of the body, for example, its needs, its health, its nourishment, all those things — they have such a solid, compact, established and concrete reality that it appears absolutely unquestionable.
Well, to be able to cure that, which of all the obstacles is the greatest (I mean the habit of putting spiritual life on one side and material life on the other, of acknowledging the right of material laws to exist), one must make a resolution never to legitimize any of these movements, at any cost.
To be able to see the problem as it is, it is absolutely indispensable, as a first step, to get out of the mental consciousness, even out of a mental transcription in the highest mind) of the supramental vision and truth. A thing cannot be seen as it is, in its truth, except in the supramental consciousness, and if you try to explain, it immediately begins to escape you because you are obliged to give it a mental formulation….
They [material laws] do not at all correspond to the truth, so consequently, if you want to be faithful to your aspiration, you must in no way legitimize all that. Rather you must say that it is an infirmity from which we are suffering for the moment, for an intermediate period — it is an infirmity and an ignorance — for it really is an ignorance (this is not just a word): it is ignorance, it is not the thing as it is, even in regard to our present material bodies. Therefore we will not legitimize anything. What we say is this — it is an infirmity which has to be endured for the time being, until we get out of it, but we do NOT ACKNOWLEDGE all this as a concrete reality. It does NOT have a concrete reality, it is a false reality — what we call concrete reality is a false reality.
And the proof — I have the proof because I experienced it myself — is that from the minute you are in the other consciousness, the true consciousness, all these things which appear so real, so concrete, change INSTANTLY. There are a number of things, certain material conditions of the body — material — that changed instantly. It did not last long enough for everything to change, but some things changed and never returned, they remained changed. In other words, if that consciousness were kept constantly, it would be a perpetual miracle (what we would call a miracle from our ordinary point of view), a fantastic and perpetual miracle! But from the supramental point of view, it would not be a miracle at all, it would be the most normal of things.
Therefore, if we do not want to oppose the supramental action by an obscure, inert and obstinate resistance, we have to admit once and for all that none of these things should be legitimized.
* Heading given by the Editor.
*Mother’s Agenda, Volume 1. Paris, Institut de Recherches Évolutives, 1978, pp. 156-9.
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