How to call It?

Now, at any rate, I know.... The work in the other states (even, even in a subtle physical) is relatively child’s play. The difficulty is here. (silence) So one may conceive of an improvement, even a considerable improvement, a state far more harmonious than the existing one. The existing state... it’s hell, really; it’s only thanks to this Possibility that it’s not hell. It’s because behind that hell, there is this Possibility – which is living, real, existing, tangible, livable – otherwise it’s infernal.... You understand, one gets the impression that all the states of being have been whipped together (you know, like when you make mayonnaise!), all the states of being well mixed together like that, in a great confusion, so naturally the "horrible thing" is bearable... because of all the rest in there. But if you start separating... Oh! (gesture of horror) What do YOU have to say? Well, it means that the consciousness of the WHOLE must change. It’s always the same problem: when the WHOLE totality has progressed, changed its consciousness, the material "fact" should become different. It appears to be like that. That’s the problem. There’s no escape, no way to divide that. EVERYTHING must change. Individuality is merely a means of action for the transformation of the whole. I understand why they said one had to escape! It demands such a transformation... it’s almost an eternity of time. Once you’ve got out of it, you’re out of it, but all the time you’ve spent to... "One" can’t be transformed without everything being transformed! Yes, that’s it. That’s right. That is to say, "one" accelerates the transformation of the whole. Yes. But that means the great surrender: "It’s like that, it’s like that...." Frightful. That’s why there are people who escape (even though it’s no use, because they’ll have to come back): it’s to get some rest! (Mother laughs) It’s perfectly obvious that if it weren’t unbearable, it would never change. And if it’s unbearable, well... it really makes you feel like running away – which is impossible, of course, it’s foolish to think you can get out of it: it’s not possible. Only, for a time... you rest. It means abandoning the work. It delays the result. And yet... yet you feel that if by some miracle ONE individual succeeded in physically supramentalizing himself, it would be such an example for the rest of the world that... I don’t know, it would change it radically. But that would still be partial. Yes, but it would strike consciousnesses so much.. It wouldn’t be general, it could only be partial. But it WILL be. It’s part of the Plan. But the perfection of ONE realization depends on a total realization. There may be a certain "quantum" of realization, that’s undeniable – that’s precisely what the supramental race will realize, obviously. It’s obvious.

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