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Need for relaxation
I've fainted fairly often in my life. Even when I was young, I
would remain conscious, and there was a whole period when
I used to go out of my body, which I would always immediately
see in some ridiculous position (just where it had no business be-
ing, of course!). So I would rush back into it and say, "Come on!
What's wrong with you!" Then it would shake itself and get mov-
ing again, like a donkey — you give it a good whack, and it gets
back to work.
This need for relaxation was never psychological with me. And
I have seen that the habit people have of slackening has the same
origin: it's not necessarily negligence or vital weakness, the body
simply gets winded. It bears up under the tension of vital energy,
but eventually it gets winded, tired out, and needs rest.
Given the world's present set-up, this is "normal"— but if the
supramental world were to be realized, it shouldn't remain nor-
mal. Clearly, a considerable change has to take place in the physi-
cal substance. That will probably be the essential difference be-
tween the bodies fashioned by Nature's methods and those to be
fashioned by supramental knowledge — a new element will come
in, and we will no longer be "natural." But so long as this natural
element is present, well, a certain amount of patience is probably
required — let the body catch its breath, otherwise something
gives way.
It gets much less winded, of course, when you have the inner
equality of the divine Presence. So much fatigue is due to excess
tension produced by desire or effort or struggle, by the constant
battle against all opposing forces. All that can go.
We tire ourselves out quite needlessly.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, January 9, 1962

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