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As long as it is the mind that thinks, your physical is
something that’s three-fourths inert and without its
own consciousness. There is a physical consciousness
proper, a consciousness of the body; the body is
conscious of itself, and it has its own aspiration. So
long as one thinks of one’s body, one is not in one’s
physical consciousness. The body has a consciousness
that’s quite personal to it and altogether independent
of the mind. The body is completely aware of its own
functioning or its own equilibrium or disequilibrium,
and it becomes absolutely conscious, in quite a
precise way, if there is a disorder somewhere or other,
and (how shall I put it?) it is in contact with that
and feels it very clearly, even if there are no external
symptoms. The body is aware if the whole working is
harmonious, well balanced, quite regular, functioning
as it should; it has that kind of plenitude, a sense of
plenitude, of joy and strength — something like the
joy of living, acting, moving in an equilibrium full of
life and energy. Or else the body can be aware that it
is ill-treated by the vital and the mind and that this
harms its own equilibrium, and it suffers from this.
That may produce a complete disequilibrium in it.
And so on.

— The Mother