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tude, there were no more problems, no more difficulties: the
future was opening up, luminous and peaceful and certain.
Nothing, nothing, no words can describe what a collapse it was
for the body when Sri Aurobindo left.
It's only because Sri Aurobindo's conscious will entered
into it — left one body and entered the other.... I was standing
facing his body, you know, and I materially felt the friction as
his will entered into me (his knowledge and his will): "You will
accomplish my Work." He said to this body: "You will accom-
plish my Work." It's the one thing that kept me alive.
Apart from that.... There's nothing, no physical destruction
I can think of, comparable to that collapse.
It took me twelve days to get out of it—twelve days during
which I didn't speak a single word.
So the experience I mentioned is the physical experience.
(silence)
What he is now striving to give this body is the consciousness
of Permanence, of Immortality, of the Certitude of absolute se-
curity — in Matter, in Life, in every moment's action. And that is
becoming nearer and nearer, more and more constant. Gradu-
ally, the mixture of old impressions is disappearing — that's the
BEDROCK, the basis of the transformation.
Conversation with a disciple, Dec 4, 1962

Sri Aurobindo in the subtle physical
(Then Mother speaks of the collective meditation held on Au-
gust 15, Sri Aurobindo's ninetieth birthday.)

Mon petit, we had a meditation here on the 15th, at ten
o'clock. At a quarter to ten, I was sitting here at the table in a
total silence. And then... I can't say Sri Aurobindo came, for he
is always here, but he manifested in a special way.... Concrete-

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