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eat — forget, because all the energies of the being and all its concentration are turned
towards a more total, more true inner realisation, towards this constant, imperative
preoccupation with the union of the whole being, including the bodily cells, with the
vibration of the divine forces, with the supramental force which is manifesting, so that
this may be the true life: not only the purpose of life, but the essence of life, not only an
imperative need of life, but all its joy and all its raison d’être.

When that is there, when this realisation is attained, then to eat or not to eat, to sleep
or not sleep, all this has no longer any importance. It is an outer rhythm left to the play
of the universal forces as a whole, finding expression through the circumstances and
people around you; and then the body, united, totally united with the inner truth, has a
suppleness, a constant adaptability: if food is there, it takes it; if it isn’t there, it doesn’t
think about it. And so too with all things.... This is not life! They are modes of existing
to which one adapts oneself without giving it any thought. This gives you the feeling
of a kind of blossoming, as a flower opens on a plant, a sort of activity which does not
come from a concentrated will but is in harmony with all the forces around you, a way
of being which is adapted to the circumstances you live in, which have absolutely no
importance in themselves.

There comes a moment when, free from everything, one needs practically nothing, and
one can use anything, do anything without this having any real influence on the state
of consciousness one is in. This is what really matters. To try through outer gestures
or arbitrary decisions which come from a mental consciousness aspiring for a higher
life can be a means, not a very effective one but still a sort of reminder to the being that
it ought to be something other than what it is in its animality — but it’s not that, it’s
not that at all! A person who could be entirely absorbed in his inner aspiration, to the
point of not giving any thought or care to these external things, who would take what
comes and not think about it when it doesn’t, would be infinitely farther on the path
than someone who undertakes ascetic practices with the idea that this will lead him to
realisation.

The only thing that is truly effective is the change of consciousness; it is the inner
liberation through an intimate, constant union, absolute and inevitable, with the
vibration of the supramental forces. The preoccupation of every second, the will of
all the elements of the being, the aspiration of the entire being, including all the cells
of the body, is this union with the supramental forces, the divine forces. And there
is no longer any need at all to be preoccupied with what the consequences will be.
What has to be in the play of the universal forces and their manifestation will be, quite
naturally, spontaneously, automatically, there is no need to be preoccupied with it.
The only thing that matters is the constant, total, complete contact — constant, yes,
constant – with the Force, the Light, the Truth, the Power, and that ineffable delight of
the supramental consciousness.

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