My experience of Satprem

One may justifiably wonder about this particular method, or even about the rightness of any method, considering that Mother Herself had none and that Her innumerable experiences of the body-consciousness awakening to the Presence would occur at any time and in any circumstance, whatever may have been the outer or inner activity dominating right then. Those experiences of Hers, often decisive and entirely new for the earth, seemed rather the fruit of a constant action of the Truth-Consciousness, than of any type of effort of the individual consciousness, however vast it was. The fact is that, in our present human condition, however enlightened, porous and offered it may be, our physical consciousness of every instant is still ruled by the mental principle: there remains a slowness, a gap, a split and an arbitrariness - we are not in a continuum with all that is. The body does not yet know how to live – to survive – without the formation of a physical ego whose seat is mental. And this formation must function and be viable at every second of our waking state. For an experience from another plane of consciousness to impress itself on this physical identity, there must be a breach, or a momentary self-forgetting, or else a strenuous effort of will in order to temporarily neutralize the continuous activity of self-maintenance and perpetuation of this individual physical consciousness. Satprem had not any more than any one of us developed the ability to be conscious simultaneously on other planes of existence, as Mother had, who was fully present, active and aware on different planes even while the very cells of Her body were little by little discovering, through successive revelations, the Presence of the Divine, of the One – the supreme reality of That in Matter itself. Sure, he was capable of opening himself to a very high inspiration, without let, even as he was attending to his various tasks of poet, scribe or administrator. But he had to, in the absence of direct instructions or indications, set a discipline But one may understand this choice in another way.

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