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What is new birth
What is called “new birth” is the birth into the spiritual
life, the spiritual consciousness; it is to carry in oneself some-
thing of the spirit which, individually, through the soul, can
begin to rule the life and be the master of existence. But in
the supramental world, the spirit will be the master of this
entire world and all its manifestations, all its expressions, con-
sciously, spontaneously, naturally...
In the individual existence, that is what makes all the dif-
ference; so long as one just speaks of the spirit and it is some-
thing one has read about, whose existence one vaguely knows
about, but not a very concrete reality for the consciousness,
this means that one is not born into the spirit. And when one
is born into the spirit, it becomes something much more con-
crete, much more living, much more real, much more tangible
than the whole material world. And this is what makes the es-
sential difference between beings. When that becomes spon-
taneously real — the true, concrete existence, the atmosphere
one can freely breathe — then one knows one has crossed
over to the other side. But so long as it is something rather
vague and hazy — you have heard about it, you know that
it exists, but... it has no concrete reality — well, this means
that the new birth has not yet taken place. As long as you tell
yourself, “Yes, this I can see, this I can touch, the pain I suffer
from, the hunger that torments me, the sleep that makes me
feel heavy, this is real, this is concrete...” (Mother laughs), that
means that you have not yet crossed over to the other side,
you are not born into the spirit.
CWM 9: 430 The Mother

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