My experience of Satprem

the one book of his which he was able to read to Mother directly and in its entirety. It is worth noting that a “new “ kind of difficulty presents itself every time a creative expression comes to surpass known limits and turns towards what is as yet unmanifest so as to offer it a form and a body, a vehicle in this world. Around Mother and inspired and sustained and nourished by Her Consciousness-Force, such new expressions were born, capturing something of this state beyond the human. We all have thus received these incomparable gifts which have helped us and keep helping us to advance on the way, to attune to the future and to better open ourselves: Sunil’s music, Huta’s painting, Satprem’s invocative prose… At the same time, it may happen that these forms of expression may appear to us so perfect that they tend to determine and rule over our own individual experience of this other state, either that we then seek to imitate or reproduce then or that we endeavor to be worthy of them, or that they become in our consciousness almost exclusive of any other experience and any other expression. In Satprem’s case, it was almost as if he were setting the very form of the experience to be attained, as if the expression he was giving it with such intensity were becoming the mould in which all other experiences must be lived by the individual consciousnesses. I believe it is very necessary to free oneself from this effect, totalitarian in a way, which is not the real effect, but a secondary one. For the real effect, the true action of it, is that it puts us into contact and relation with the new state – it is this contact that matters, not the vehicle that led us to it. In this contact alone is the base of our experience, which will also be entirely unique and will acquire its own forms of expression from the same Unity of being.

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