(A news item originating from Boulder, Colorado, and dated August 8, reports a solar flare covering over 2.8 billion square miles of the sun's surface. Within an hour of the eruption, the effect was felt on earth, causing a magnetic storm that seriously disrupted communications in many parts of the world In terms of magnitude, the current sunspots are the greatest ever recorded since at least 1964 [Indian Express, August 91.) Did you hear about the explosions on the sun?Yes.They say it's falling to the earth ... Ah?... and it's going to affect humans. Did you hear that? I didn't hear it was falling to the earth.They say it will come to the earth and affect humans. I think it affects the earth atmosphere, the weather, but that's all.I don't know. It affects the atmosphere; for example, radio transmissions arescrambled. The atmosphere is affected, but that's about all.Is this today's news? I don't know, Mother.Because mine is today's latest news. They're rather pessimistic. But what do you say? I say that it must be the supramental consciousness - not "consciousness": the supramental SUBSTANCE. And those who are ready will thus have their new body. That's my most ... optimistic explanation. So you think these solar eruptions are some kind of precipitation of the supramental consciousness on earth?Of the SUBSTANCE. The consciousness came long ago, but the thing is.... Because, for example, this body has the same needs it used to have; that's the way it is built: it needs to eat, but it can't eat. So when I was told these eruptions would affect even the human body, I thought: could it be the substance that will create the supramental body? If the Supramental is to manifest on earth, something of it has to relate to the physical. So when I was told that this solar explosion was heading for the earth and would affect people, I thought: well, maybe that's what is coming to replace food? It's wishful thinking, I can't say it's a knowledge. It just came to me like that. Because, according to what Sri Aurobindo said, the supramental body will be immortal and sexless - that is, no procreation. So for those who live, if the earth is still there and they are to go on living, they will have to transform themselves constantly, otherwise they won't be able to last. Hence something has to replace food. Food carries in itself a seed of death, of decay. So obviously, it must be replaced by something else. (silence) Do we know how much time it takes for the rays of the sun to travel to earth?Oh, it's very fast, [[Eight minutes. ]] Mother. It's alreadydone, it has already entered the earth's atmosphere.Really? Yes, it takes a few minutes.Ohh! (long silence) So the effect of the explosion is already....Already here, yes. Radio transmissions, for example, have already been disrupted. Those solar eruptions occur in cycles. The phenomenon recurs at fixed intervals - I can't tell you exactly, I don't know if it's every ten or twenty years [[Eleven years. ]] ....Oh! ... But this one is particularly strong, it seems.Oh, it's a recurring phenomenon.... Yes, cyclic. But I think its magnitude was quite extraordinarythis time.... Very unusual. (silence) Do we know what the sun is made of, its substance?Yes, Mother. It's a substance in a state of nuclear fusion; like agigantic and incessant atomic explosion.Oh! It's in a gaseous state. With constant atomic reactions. It's amillion times more powerful than the atomic bombs they have exploded on earth, and nonstop. (long silence Certainly.... The sun is not really solid matter, you see, it's energy.Yes, it isn't matter. It isn't matter, it's energy.(In an amused tone:) And that's what keeps us alive! Yes! [Laughter] (silence) Sri Aurobindo and all the Vedic Rishis have always likenedthe Supermind to the sun....Yes. So there must be some relationship, a correspondence.Yes.... I personally find it very ... (what's the word?) significant that this should have happened this year [of Sri Aurobindo's centenary]. page 261-65 , Mother's Agenda , volume 13 , 9th Aug - 1972-1973 |