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Namah Vol. 32, Issue 4, 15th January 2025

reveals to us: the supramental force, to go forward always,
always with the ascending movement of the
“There is a difference between immortality and divine Truth, without falling backwards into
the deathless state. Sri Aurobindo has described the decrepitude of the body.
it very well in Savitri.
“That is what Sri Aurobindo means when
“The deathless state is what can be envisaged he speaks of an intolerable ecstasy; it is not an
for the human physical body in the future: it intolerable ecstasy: it is an unflinching ecstasy
is constant rebirth. Instead of again tumbling (3).’’
backwards and falling apart due to a lack of
plasticity and an incapacity to adapt to the
universal movement, the body is undone ‘future
wards,’ as it were.

“There is one element that remains fixed: for
each type of atom, the inner organization of the
elements is different, which is what creates the
difference in their substance. So perhaps
similarly, each individual has a different,
particular way of organizing the cells of his
body, and it is this particular way that persists
through all the outer changes. All the rest is Change and the Changeless
undone and redone, but undone in a forward
thrust towards the new instead of collapsing Too much focused on the outer physical body,
backwards into death, and redone in a constant we miss out on the inner possibilities opening
aspiration to follow the progressive movement before us. We keep running to the physician
of the divine Truth. in the hope of some panacea and miss out
on the all-knowing healer within. Old age
“But for that, the body — the body- is the time when we can invoke the Divine
consciousness — must first learn to widen itself. Presence in our lives and even in the body in
It is indispensable, for otherwise all the cells a last sacrifice at the Divine altar. At a certain
become a kind of boiling porridge under the point, one can sense that Autumn is passing
pressure of the supramental light. into Winter. A progressive detachment from
the outer and deeper engagement with
“What usually happens is that when the body the inner self is the way ahead. As to the
reaches its maximum intensity of aspiration or physical body it is best to provide it support
of ecstasy of Love, it is unable to contain it. It rather than flog the tired horse with whips.
becomes flat, motionless. It falls back. Things Simple measures like the walking-stick or, if
settle down — you are enriched with a new needed, a wheelchair are simpler and safer
vibration, but then everything resumes its in preventing falls and providing relative
course. So you must widen yourself in order freedom to move around rather than pushing
to learn to bear unflinchingly the intensities of chemicals into the blood. The body machine

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