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Recorded by Satprem, a disciple of the
Mother, in the course of numerous personal conversations with her,
Mother's Agenda is the complete logbook of her exploration in the
cellular consciousness of the human body. It covers 23 years of
experiences which parallel some of the most recent theories of modern
physics, and are perhaps the key to man's passage to the next species.
1951-1973
This 6,OOO-page work in 13 volumes represents the
day-to-day account over 22 years of Mother's exploration into the body
consciousness and her discovery of a "cellular mind", capable
of restructuring the nature of the body and the laws of the species as
drastically as, one day, the first stammerings of a "thinking
mind" transformed the nature of the ape. It is a timely document of
experimental evolution, involving a revolution in consciousness that
alters the laws of the species. Whatever the appearances, we are not at
the end of a civilisation but at the end of an evolutionary cycle. Are
we going to find the passage to the next species, or perish? As
scrupulously as a scientist in his laboratory, Mother goes back to the
origin of matter's formation, to the primordial code, and there, 'by
chance', stumbles upon the mechanism of death - upon the very power that
changes death - and upon a 'new' Energy which curiously parallels the
most recent theories on the subatomic nature of Matter. The key to
Matter contains the key to death ... as well as the key to the next
species.
Mother's Agenda - Volume I
[1951-1960]
This first volume is in great part devoted to what
might be called "Satprem's psychological preparation," from
his arrival in Pondicherry in February 1954, "after having knocked
on all the doors of the old world." Ultimately, he would stay
beside Mother for 19 years, listening to her and recording the account
of her experiences in the cellular consciousness - what forms the 13
volumes of the Agenda.
Satprem, "True Love," as Mother called
him, was a reluctant disciple. Formed in the French Cartesian mold, a
freedom fighter against the Nazis during the Second World War, and in
love with his freedom, he was always ready to run away, yet always
coming back, drawn by a love greater than his love for freedom. Being
with Mother was, in his own words, like "struggling with the
jungle, machete in hand - ultimately to melt, to fall in love, so
beautiful it is... It was fascinating and detestable, overpowering and
warm. One felt like screaming and biting, and running away, but always
returning." Slowly she conquered him, slowly he came to understand
the poignant drama of this lone indomitable woman struggling to unseal
man's evolutionary future, to open the door to a new species after man.
And how does one open the door to a new species?
540 pages
Mother's Agenda - Volume II
[1961]
In
this year of the first American trip in space, Mother strikes at the
heart of "the great mystery": "It's double! It's the same
world and yet it's - what?" In one world, everything is harmonious,
without any possibility of disease, death, or accident - "a
miraculous harmony" - and in the other world, everything is awry.
Yet it's the same world of matter - separated by what? "More and
more I feel it's a question of a vibration in matter."
What
is this "vertical time" that suddenly opens up a new way of
living and being in matter, where things are no longer the inexorable
consequence or cause of one another? "A kind of absoluteness in
each second." A brand-new world at each second, without trace, age,
or past imprint.
And
what is this "massive immobility" in a lightning-fast
movement, this "speckling of vibrations," as if Mother were no
longer experiencing her body at a macroscopic level but at the level of
subatomic physics? And sixty years of "spiritual life" crumble
as "a far more serious illusion" before - a new Divine? Or a
new mode of life in matter - the next mode? "I am absolutely in the
process of cutting a path through the jungle."
460 pages
Mother's Agenda - Volume III
[1962]
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 earth 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 "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 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 super electricity... 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! It 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 a 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!"
540 pages
Mother's Agenda - Volume IV
[1963]
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," into the consciousness of the
cells. Will it be global death, then, or the beginning of a new world,
as the 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 a 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 alters the laws 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 rhythms are changed... A universal movement so incredibly rapid
that it appears motionless... A true physical 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 life on
earth." And there 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 next biology on earth?
485 pages
Mother's Agenda - Volume V
[1964]
"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 caterpillar? "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 time 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 disappears. 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
caterpillar 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?
350 pages
Mother's Agenda - Volume VI
[1965]
"A whole world is beginning to open up."
This is the year when Mother reaches the "mind of the cells,"
pure, beneath the old genetic coating that seems to want to make us a
species forever saddled with death: "There's such an accumulation
of power there ... as if this were the tail end of the solution."
Another power of consciousness in matter that will undo the old
programme: "A sort of memory being set up from the bottom up"
- a new cellular memory having nothing to do with old age, illness,
death, gravity, and all our "real" world? And simultaneously,
at this cellular level free of the old laws, Mother discovers "two
worlds within each other: a world of Truth and a world of Falsehood. And
this world of Truth is PHYSICAL; it isn't up there - it's MATERIAL. And
this is what is to come to the fore and replace the other - the true
physical." That's what Mother called "the transfer of
power." Is it really possible that a marvel of physical freedom is
concealed within our cells while we keep seeking illusory external
panaceas? "Even if only a tiny number of cells could manage to have
the experience of total transformation, to the full, it would be
more effective than all the great revolutions. But it is more
difficult... Death must be overcome! There should be no more death;
that's very clear." Is the whole earth not in the process of
experiencing that "transfer of power," as it did when it went
from the animal kingdom to the mental kingdom a long time ago?
"Everything is giving way. No more support anywhere. It's the
transition to the new movement... And for the old, it always feels like
a dangerous loss of equilibrium."
370 pages
Mother's Agenda - Volume VII
[1966]
"Humanity
is not the last step in the terrestrial creation. Evolution goes on and
man will be surpassed. It is up to each one to know whether he wants to
participate in the adventure of the new species." This is the year
of the cultural revolution in China. A more profound revolution was
being accomplished in a body that was waging the one revolution that
would change everything for all the little terrestrial bodies: "We
are seeking the process so as to have the power to abolish death... It
is the mind of the cells that will find the key." This is the
perilous transition from a human body animated by the laws of the Mind
to a next body animated by a nameless law in the heart of the cell:
"A coagulated vibration, denser than air, extremely homogeneous, of
a golden luminosity, with a tremendous power of propulsion... Everything
is becoming very strange. The body is no longer dependent on physical
laws." What was the sensation of the first vertebrate to leave the
marine world for another, nameless world in which we breathe today?
"For each part of the body, the moment it changes, there is a
feeling it's the end... All the supports have gone. I no longer have a
path!" And where is the path to the next species? "There have
to be some who make it." Sometimes, that other
"environment" breaks forth: "An instantaneous marvel... A
condition in which time no longer has the same reality. An innumerable
present. Another way of living." Eighty years before, a little girl
had lived her first revolution of Matter: "When I was told that
everything is 'atoms,' it created like a revolution in my head: then
nothing is true!" A second revolution of Matter takes place at
cellular level: old Matter and its overt laws change into a new world
and a new way of being in a body.
Mother's Agenda - Volume VIII
[1967]
That
year, all the features of the yoga of the cells became clear: "The
increasing conviction that perfection achieved in matter is far more
perfect than anywhere else. The consciousness expressed in cells that
have been transformed is a marvel; that legitimates all these centuries
of misery. All these gods, what a fuss they make!" This is the year
of the discovery of "true Matter," without fuss: "In this
[cellular] limpidity, there is no longer any problem; the solution
precedes the problem. In other words, things are organized
automatically." It is another life mode on earth - "Such a
natural way of being!" - in a body free of its mental prison and of
the laws of false matter: "This extraordinary feeling of the
unreality of suffering, the unreality of illnesses... It does not cure
the disease; it cancels it, makes it unreal... And so it is quite clear
that, as this process perfects itself, it will mean the victory over
death." In the meantime, "Surveyor" is on its way to dig
the lunar soil with its mechanical arm, while our own secrets remain
buried in our cells: "We can go anywhere, know what's happening
everywhere, but we don't even know what's happening inside
ourselves." The war is raging in Biafra; the Israeli army is
marching toward Suez; the U.S. air force is bombing Haiphong; the
Chinese are exploding their first thermonuclear device, and on and on.
"A tremendous conflict above the earth." With the stakes of a
new earth or the return to the old disaster: "A local and momentary
manifestation is not impossible, but a collective transformation of some
magnitude is necessary to create a new species on earth... That fact is
certain." Will we understand where the true solution lies, and the
marvel concealed in a human body?
Mother's Agenda - Volume IX
[1968]
That year, a fire swept across the world from
Warsaw to Columbia, from Nanterre to Alexandria: "There are long
periods when things are being prepared, and then there comes a time when
something happens, and that something brings a new development to the
world - as when man appeared on the earth. Now, it's a new being."
This is the second turning point in Mother's yoga. She is ninety.
Auroville has just been founded - "A centre of accelerated
evolution." Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are assassinated,
the Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia - what is going on? "I have
a strong impression this is intended to teach us something like the
secret of the [human, terrestrial] working. We are constantly being
shown that the process we have learned is wrong, that it does not
conform to reality, and we are being taught the true process by living
it." As if the earth were shut in a glass bowl, prisoner of a
"false matter": "There is as if a web covering the entire
earth, and the body is being taught how to extricate itself from it...
Gradually, the consciousness of the cells is freeing itself from that
domination." And suddenly, from the other side: "I have never
seen or felt anything so beautiful in all my life! ... The most
wonderful hours one can have on this earth - why are they seeking above
what is right here?" The short-lived miracle of 1968 seems to be
swallowed up while the walls of our glass bowl are slowly but inexorably
exploding in each country, each continent, each branch of human
knowledge. "It would seem that an immense period of time will be
needed before everything is ready to change. And yet, there is almost a
promise that an abrupt change will occur." Could it be that, one
morning, one last turn of the screw of circumstances will propel us into
a new consciousness?
380 pages
Mother's Agenda - Volume X
[1969]
This time Mother has found the
"passage," what she calls the "new consciousness,"
that which will open a new world to us, much as an amphibian created a
new air by shattering for the first time the surface of the waters:
"I don't know what is happening; it's a state of intense vibration,
like lightning-fast waves, so fast that they seem motionless. And I go
to America, I go to Europe... Never has this body been so happy; these
cells, other cells - there was life everywhere, consciousness
everywhere; all the other bodies were itself!" At the same time,
all our physiological aches and pains vanish: "There is as if a
dilation of the cells; limits dwindle, fade, then pains go away
physically." And this is not "another world," it is the
earth, our earth, but experienced in a different way: "It's as if
we had entered an unreal falsehood, and everything vanishes the moment
we get out of it; it doesn't exist! And all the artificial means of
getting out, including nirvana, are worthless. SALVATION IS PHYSICAL! It
is here, it is here. Everything else, including death, truly becomes a
lie - there is no disappearance, no 'life and death'!..." And while
she breaks through the walls of our glass bowl, the whole world is in
revolt, including the people around her, as if under the pressure of a
new air: "A huge number of desires that it [Mother's body] die,
everywhere, they are everywhere! ... The whole gamut, from the worries
in people around me, the longings for a quick end, to the restless
desires: free at last! ... I would like not to be put in a box; the
cells are conscious... What is going to happen? I don't know. This
defies every habit." A new species very much defies the world's old
habit. Will the world accept her, or will it ultimately remove her?
560 pages
Mother's Agenda - Volume XI
[1970]
The
beginning of the terrible years. It is as if Mother had found the secret
of the change, conquered all she could in her own body, and she now sat
there, amid the disciples, taking in all the resistance of the old
species. "The change IS DONE. Everything is raging like wild
beasts, but it is finished." A new mode of being of the
consciousness of the cells had appeared on earth, much as a new mode of
being, called Life, had once appeared in inert Matter - except that this
time it was "overlife": "The feeling that there is a way
of being of the cells that would be the beginning of a new body, but
when that happens, the body itself feels on the verge of death."
What would be the "feeling" of the first corpuscle to
experience life? "The body has a feeling it has reached the point
of ... the unknown. A very, very strange sensation. Like a new type of
vibration. It is so new that - it's not exactly an anguish, but it's ...
the sense of the unknown. The mystery of the unknown." And there,
what we call "death" is like the inside of the bowl for the
former fish, yet it is not "another world": "It is
surprisingly one within the other! Is that possible? Well, overlife is
life and death together." Then, this cry of the breakthrough:
"What appears to us as 'the laws of nature' was an absurdity!"
Another terrestrial world where the old mortal laws of the glass bowl
collapse into ... something else? "I just have had a fantastic
vision of the cradle of a future ... that is not very far away. It is
like a stupendous mass hovering above the earth." But will the
disciples let her go to the end?
320 pages
Mother's Agenda - Volume XII
[1971]
The last turning point in Mother's yoga, from
which she emerges with a cry: "I walked a long, long time. I was
nothing but a cry, all the time, as if everything were being torn from
me. It was the whole problem of the world."
This Agenda is increasingly strewn with
heartrending little cries. It was not enough to have found the secret
for herself; others too had to understand, her own disciples, those
dominions shut in their egoistic power.
"They don't have faith! 'She's old, she's
old': an atmosphere of resistance to the change; 'it's impossible,
impossible' - from every side... Not a single minute should be wasted; I
am in a hurry... The reign of the Divine must, oh, must come... If the
entire Russian block turned to the right side, that would be an enormous
help! The victory is certain, but I don't know which path will be
followed to reach it... We should cling, cling so tightly to the
Truth... They no longer listen to me."
She is 93 years old. She gropes her way in the
unknown. "I see better with eyes closed than with eyes open, and
it's physical vision, absolutely physical, but a physical that seems
fuller. The consciousness of the cells is what must change; everything
else will follow naturally! I have the feeling I am on my way to
discovering the illusion that must be destroyed so that physical life
may be uninterrupted: that death is the result of a distortion of
consciousness."
Will she be heard? Will she be allowed to
continue? "Only violent death could stop the transformation.
Otherwise the body knows that the work will go on and on..." And
then this cry: "There will be a miracle! But what, I don't
know."
395 pages
Mother's Agenda - Volume XIII
[1972-1973]
"Before dying falsehood rises in full swing.
Still, people only understand the lesson of catastrophe. Will it have to
happen for them to open their eyes?"
This is the year of Watergate, Nixon's first trip
to China, the murder of the Israeli athletes in Munich, the first oil
embargo. It is Mother's last path. A path strewn with heartrending
little cries and staggering visions. The end of one world, the beginning
of another ... if we wish, and even if we don't. "Sometimes it's so
new and unexpected that it's almost painful." And Satprem asks her,
"But is it a state outside matter?" "No, I am not going
out of this material life, but ... it appears different. But it's
curious. And it's physical; that's what is extraordinary! As if the
physical had become double... A new state in matter. And ruled by
something other than the sun, I don't know by what... I am touching upon
another world. Another way of being ... dangerous, but wonderful."
Satprem intently listened to her increasingly halting breath as she
gasped for air - a breath that seemed to come from another side of the
world: "There's no difference between life and death. This is
neither life nor death; it's ... something. You see, it isn't that death
disappears; both are changing into ... something one doesn't yet know,
which seems both extremely dangerous and absolutely marvelous."
What if "death" were only the other, material side of our
human bowl, a sunny shore for a forthcoming species? A new state on both
sides of the world in which both life and death change into ...
something else? "I am walking a very thin and narrow line..."
And then this cry, this entreaty: "Let me do the work!"
On November 17, 1973, she passed away - why?
395 pages
Published by Institut de Recherches Evolutives, Paris.
ISBN 2-902776-33-0
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