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ardently wanted to live very long, who felt that he had many very
important things to do and that he must not die, and he took all
kinds of precautions against that — and yet he died. There may be
cases which seem contradictory, but that is only an appearance.
There are explanations for all these things, they obey different laws.
Here I have taken the purely material point of view.
If you do not make a higher determinism intervene, truly you
can change nothing. That is the only way of changing your physi-
cal determinism. If you remain in your physical consciousness and
want to change your determinism, you cannot... During the First
War I knew a boy who had been told he would die of a gunshot
(you know in war one dies easily), and he had even been given an
approximate date. And that caused him such agony that he had suc-
ceeded in getting a long leave. He came to Paris on leave. He was
an officer and had his pistol in his pocket. He jumped from a tram
and fell down, the pistol went off and he was killed on the spot. He
could not escape.
I could narrate any number of such examples to you. But this
belongs to a single plane, the material plane — the purely material
physical, mental and vital plane. It is only a higher knowledge and
a contact with the higher planes and the descent of these higher
planes into the physical plane, which can change circumstances. So
too, if one succeeded in bringing down the supramental plane per-
manently into the physical life, physical life would be transformed,
that is, it would change totally. But only on this condition.
CWM 6: 47-49 The Mother

What should we do to make the soul happy, so that it reincar-
nates in good conditions, for example in a spiritual environment?

Have no sorrow and remain very peaceful and quiet, while keep-
ing an affectionate remembrance of the one who has departed.
CWM 15: 121 The Mother

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