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Namah Vol. 23, Issue 4, 15th January 2016

In this new substance which is spreading and acting in the world, there is a warmth, a
power, a joy so intense that all intellectual activity seems cold and dry beside it. And that
is why the less one talks about these things the better it is. A single moment, a single
impulse of deep and true love, an instant of the understanding which lies in the divine
Grace brings you much closer to the goal than all possible explanations.

Even a kind of refined sensation, subtle, clear, luminous, acute, which penetrates deep,
opens the door for you more than the subtlest explanations.

And if we carry the experience still further, it seems that when one comes to the work of
transformation of the body, when some cells of the body, more ready than others, more
refined, more subtle, more plastic, are able to feel concretely the presence of the divine
Grace, the divine Will, the divine Power, this Knowledge that is not intellectual but a
knowledge by identity, when one feels this in the cells of the body, then the experience is
so total, so imperative, so living, concrete, tangible, real that everything else seems a vain
dream.

And so we may say that it is truly when the circle is complete and the two extremities
touch, when the highest manifests in the most material, that the experience will be truly
conclusive.

It seems that one can never truly understand until one understands with one’s body.

— The Mother *

* The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 9. Cent. ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 1977, pp. 324-6.

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