Sometimes I wonder if it's not sheer folly to attempt it.... Shouldn't this body simply be left to dissolve and let others, better fit for the new functioning, be prepared? I don't know. I don't know. No one has ever done this before, so there's no one to tell me. So my solution is always the same: I am like this (gesture of surrender), the body saying, "I am quite willing to try, I am trying my best." Is it folly, or is it really possible? ... I don't know. But long ago there was a knowledge like that - all the ancient scriptures mention it.I believe so. I believe so. I feel a very strong need for someone who knows. Yes, I too have quite often thought that someone should come here who....... who knows. Who knows something. [[In fact, in the Agenda conversations of 1958 and '59 (never noted by Satprem because he believed them too "personal"), Mother mentioned this as one of the main reasons for encouraging his tantric discipline. He even set out for the Himalayas, like a knight of yore, with the idea of bringing back to Mother the secrets of transformation; and Mother indicated to him the spot where one of her former bodies lay in a Himalayan cave, petrified by a mineral spring. But the secret of the new species can manifestly not be found through any "trick " tantric or otherwise - one's very nature must change. No one could help Mother because if someone "knew," it would already be done. ]] page 82 - The Mother's Agenda , volume 3 , February 13, 1962 |