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so sure, so altogether certain, as though all had been accom-
plished. There was none of that anguish, that tension for things
to get done.
It lasted about three quarters of an hour; afterwards things
returned to normal.
It was the most beautiful August 15 we ever had....
Conversation with a disciple, Aug 18 1962

One house into another
But people are so ignorant! They make such a fuss over
death, as if it were the end — this word 'death' is so absurd! I
see it as simply passing from one house into another or from
one room to another; you take one simple step, you cross the
threshold, and there you are on the other side — and then you
come back.
Have I told you about the experience I had the day I sud-
denly found myself in Sri Aurobindo's home in the subtle physi-
cal? Well, it's as if I took a step and entered a far more concrete
world than the physical — more concrete because things con-
tain more truth. I spent a good while there with Sri Aurobindo
and then, when it was over, I took another step and I found
myself back here... slightly dumbfounded. It took me quite some
time to regain my bearings here, because it was this world that
seemed unreal to me, not the other.
But it's simply that — you take a step, and you enter anoth-
er room. And when you live in your soul there is a continuity,
because the soul remembers, it keeps the whole memory; it re-
members all occurrences, even outer occurrences, all the outer
movements it has been associated with. So it's a continuous,
uninterrupted movement, here and there, from one room to
another, from one house to another, from one life to another.
People are so ignorant! That's what irritates those who

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