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Sri Aurobindo: Or, The adventure of consciousness

Politics & Social Sciences

Satprem

Philosophy

Harper&Row

The age of adventure is over. Even if we go to the seventh galaxy we shall go there masked and mechanized, and we shall find ourselves once again such as we are: children in front of death, living beings who do not know very well how they are going.... We are hence pushed to the wall before the last ground that remains for us to explore, the final adventure: ourselves. -Satprem (from book's back cover)

Sri Aurobindo, or the Adventure of Consciousness

This is the year of the Cuban missile crisis and the first Sino-Indian conflict. Could it be the first sign of something really... big ? It seems something has been profoundly disrupted, in the depths, Mother said. Indeed, the whole world is disrupted. This year Mother emerges into a third position in her body. Neither life nor death as we know it. Another side of the web where physical laws no longer apply and which curiously resembles the subatomic world of the black holes: time is changed, space is changed, death is changed. Could this be the material site, in the body, where the laws of the world are overturned - they were only our self-imagined laws - and where evolution opens on an incredible bodily freedom, a third position that will be the position of the next species on the earth ? The body is beginning to obey another law. The sense of time is disappearing into a moving immobility... A mass of infinite force, like pure superelectricity... A movement of undulating, corporeal waves, as vast as the earth... All the organs are changed; everything follows a different rhythm. Such a tremendous power, and so free! Something different... It's something different! I don't know if I am living or dead... The nature of my nights is changing, the nature of my days is changing...The Physical vibration is becoming porous... No more axis - gone, blown away! I can go forward, backward, or anywhere at all... Ubiquity, or something like that. And then this cry : Death is an illusion, illness is an illusion! Life and death are one and the same thing! It's just a shift of consciousness. Why, this is fantastic ! And then s simple discovery, in the flesh: The closer you come to the cell, the more the cell says, 'But I am immortal' A third cellular position in which one becomes incapable of dying because death no longer has a reality. Has Mother uncovered another reality OF MATTER this year, at the age of 84? Right there, just in the background, is a sort of fairy tale... Something in the making that will be exceedingly beautiful, beyond all expression : a beautiful story Sri Aurobindo was trying to bring down onto the earth - and it's sure to come!

Mothers Agenda Volume 3 1962

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Lotus-Press

Mother or the New Species

Biographies & Memoirs

Inst for Evolutionary Research

With Satprem, we understand the virtues of mental silence, learn about the invisible gradations of consciousness above the mind, decipher the many beings and forces that inhabit us. All our unknown potentialities come alive before our eyes. Most importantly, we appreciate how these untapped possibilities within us relate to our daily life, how they can transform it from the inside, as it were, and how, ultimately, Sri Aurobindo's experience leads to a "divine rehabilitation of Matter." "We have denied the Divinity in Matter, to confine it instead in our holy places, but now Matter is taking its revenge. We call Matter crude, and crude it is. As long as we tolerate this imbalance between Matter and Spirit, there is no hope for the earth. We will only continue to swing from one extreme to another, both equally false - from material enjoyment to spiritual austerity - without ever fining true fulfillment. We need BOTH the vigor of Matter and the fresh waters of the Spirit ... Now the time may have come at last to recover the whole truth of the two poles WTITHIN A THIRD POSITION, which is neither that of the materialists nor that of the spiritualists." -Satprem

Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness

Four and a half billion members of Homo sapiens are in the process of learning the futility of their ways of existence, just as one day some fish learned the futility of their gills on dry land, and evolved into amphibians. If those fish had sought to improve their aquatic Science, devised new fills and new philosophies, they would have been completely beside the point. Now the question is whether we will find the WAY, not to improve the human suffocation, but to be and live otherwise on this earth. Is there within this human body a handle, a lever, that would enable us to change our way of being on earth, just as the first mental vibration some three million years ago paved the way for Einstein and the Boeing 747? What vibration? Where, in the body? Could it be that the primary form of living matter, the cell, holds a power of consciousness or a "vibratory mode" capable of making all our present mental devices and pointless artifices obsolete? In other words, a Mind of the Cells which will open up to us new sources of energy, new methods of communication, a new power to handle matter. A new biology and a new consciousness which will enable us to face the challenge of a species on its way to self-destruction. Such is the incredible discovery of Sri Aurobindo and Mother in the cells of the body, at a time when the earth is suffocating. For "Salvation is physical," said Mother, who, at the age of eighty, dared to knock at the last door in the body, and who made the most extraordinary discovery since Darwin.

The Mind of the Cells or Willed Mutation of Our Species (English and French Edition)

The Sannyasi chronicles the voyages of the soul, which others call reincarnations, a perpetual story unfolding in three cycles or three lives - three islands situated in this country or another, seemingly in India, by Egypt, and Norway's frozen lakes, are also present. The protagonist, Nil, ever in search of something else - a new human condition on earth, free of the Machine and of the laws of the mind - has burned all the bridges to find it. He has given up all worldly pursuits to become a mendicant sannyasi, emerging into a vaster, cosmic consciousness and new perceptions, ultimately to realize that he may have gained the freedom of the summits but has lost the earth.

By the Body of the Earth or the Sannyasi

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

This is the year of president Kennedy's assassination and the beginning of the Sino-Soviet split. While the destructive race between the superpowers intensifies and science questions the laws of the universe, Mother slowly carves the path to the next species on earth. ""The path I seek is always downward"", in the consciousness of the cells. Will it be global death, then, or the beginning of a new world, as birds followed the reptiles ? ""I am on the threshold of a stupendous realisation that depends on something very tiny."" She is 85 this year. Will it be more ""intelligent"" species within the framework of our physics, or one with a different intelligence that will alter the laws of our physics as the frog alter the law of the tadpole in its bowl ? As she descends closer to the cell, Mother suddenly emerges into a different physical universe : ""Everything becomes as if it were seen for the first time, even the movement of the earth and the stars... There's no distance, no difference, not something seeing and something being seen... One becomes a mountain, a forest, a house... One sees thousands of miles away and up close at the same time - a sort of cellular ubiquity."" And then, yes, this astounding realisation : ""The body is everywhere !"" A global next species ? What happens to the laws of the old physics when the bowl is shattered, when distances no longer exist ? ""All the usual rythms are changed... A universal movement so incredibly rapid that it appears motionless... A true phyiscal in the background."" And what happens to death when one escapes the wear and tear of the time inherent in the bowl? ""If this becomes a natural state, death can no longer exist !... It would mean a new phase of the life on earth."" And theer is not far to go : ""The field of experience is right here at every second... We strive to come in contact with something that is right here."" A new cellular consciousness that will form a new physics and perhaps the new biology on earth?

Mothers Agenda Volume 4 1963

The only hope for the future is a change in man's consciousness. It is up to men to decide if they will collaborate with it or if this change will be enforced on them by overpowering circumstances. As the new Force infiltrates Mother's body, it is the problem of the earth that is increasingly in question. How will the earth take that vibration with the intensity of a superior fire? I see very few bodies around me capable of withstanding it... So what will happen? This is the year of the first Chinese atomic bomb. Mother is 86. A minuscule, infinitesimal, speckled infiltration - the miracle of the earth! A catastrophic miracle? Is not the butterfly a sort of catastrophe for the cartepillar? Death isn't a solution, so we are searching for another solution - there must be another solution. Imperturbably, Mother goes deeper into the cellular consciousness, and deeper still: A sort of deep-rooted certitude in matter that the solution lies there... It is at that atomic level that the change must take place; the state of infinitesimal vibrations in matter is what it's all about. Where times switches to something else: Perhaps it's in the past that I go, perhaps in the future, perhaps in the present? And even the laws of matter are changing: The minute you go down to the cellular level, that sort of heaviness of matter diesappears. It all begins to be fluid, vibrant again. Which would tend to prove that heaviness, thickness, inertia is something that has been added on - it's false matter, the one we think or feel, but not matter as it really is. A true matter, then, which would be the matter of the next species? I am on the verge of a new perception of life, as if certain parts of the consciousness were mutating from the cartepillar state to the butterfly state... And the earth groans and protests - against what? The whole youth seems to be seized by a strange vertigo... Will we move to a next species or not?

Mothers Agenda Volume 5 1964

What if man is a "transitional being," as Sri Aurobindo said long ago, only preparing the way for what is to come next? And perhaps we don't need any computers or mental acrobatics to prepare the next man. Perhaps we don't need any spiritual exercies or religions either. Perhaps BEING is enough. But being with a fire of truth in the heart, with a cry of need calling out to the truth of the earth, a cry of suffocation amid the senseless chaos of the present earth - a call for what we ARE behind the game of looks and the mental machinery which shackles us so cleverly. Perhaps a simple cry is enough. (Country of Origin: USA)

On the Way to Supermanhood

Translator: Luc Venet

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