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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 4, 15th January 2024

before it. Its presence will be unmistakable, hostile force which strives to pierce it: it will
its force will brook no resistance, doubts and present no dull resistance to the attack but
difficulties will not torture you any longer. For will be, on the contrary, so pliant as to nullify
the Divine will stand manifest — unveiled in the force by giving way to it to pass off.
its total perfection. I do not, however, mean to Thus it will suffer no harmful consequences
say that the whole world will at once feel its and the most deadly attacks will leave it
presence or be transformed; but I do mean that unscathed. Lastly, it will be turned into
a part of humanity will know and participate the stuff of light, each cell will radiate
in its descent — say, this little world of ours the supramental glory. Not only those who
here. From there the transfiguring grace will are developed enough to have their subtle
most effectively radiate. And, fortunately sight open but the ordinary man too will be
for the aspirants, that successful future will able to perceive this luminosity. It will be
materialise for them in spite of all the obstacles an evident fact to each and all, a permanent
set in its way by unregenerate human nature (9)!” proof of the transformation which will convince
even the most sceptical.
She completes by hinting at the attributes of a
body that becomes the field of the Yoga joining “The bodily transformation will be the supreme
the two extreme poles into one consciousness, spiritual rebirth — an utter casting away of
the material and the spiritual reconciling their all the ordinary past. For spiritual rebirth
opposition in a harmonious and victorious means the constant throwing away of our
fulfilment of the Divine Intention in creation previous associations and circumstances and
through our humanity. proceeding to live as if at each virgin moment
we were starting life anew. It is to be free
“One of the greatest victories of this ineffable of what is called Karma, the stream of our
humility of God will be the transformation of past actions: in other words, a liberation from
Matter which is apparently the most undivine. the bondage of Nature’s common activity of
Supramental plasticity is an attribute of finally cause and effect. When this cutting away of
transformed Matter. The supramental body the past is triumphantly accomplished in the
which has to be brought into being here has consciousness, all those mistakes, blunders,
four main attributes: lightness, adaptability, errors and follies which, still vivid in our
plasticity and luminosity. When the physical recollection, cling to us like leeches sucking
body is thoroughly divinised, it will feel as our life-blood, drop away, leaving us most
if it were always walking on air, there will joyfully free. This freedom is not a mere
be no heaviness or tamas or unconsciousness matter of thought; it is the most solid, practical,
in it. There will also be no end to its power material fact. We really are free, nothing binds
of adaptability: in whatever conditions it us, nothing affects us, there is no obsession of
is placed it will immediately be equal to responsibility. If we want to counteract, annul
the demands made upon it because its full or outgrow our past, we cannot do it by mere
consciousness will drive out all that inertia repentance or similar things, we must forget
and incapacity which usually make Matter that the untransformed past has ever been and
a drag on the Spirit. Supramental plasticity enter into an enlightened state of consciousness
will enable it to stand the attack of every which breaks loose from all moorings. To be

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