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7th creation *But if one looks with the true light,
it can only be one manifestation that will dissolve and there will be
a more beautiful manifestation. Théon had told me that this was the
seventh and the last. I told Sri Aurobindo what Théon had said and
Sri Aurobindo agreed, because he said: This one will see the
transformation towards the Supramental. But for that, for the
Supramental, the mind must fall silent: and that gives me always the
feeling (Mother laughs) that a child is sitting on the head
of the mind and playing (gesture, of a child beating with his
legs) on the head of the mind!... If I could still draw a
picture, it would be truly amusing. The mind – this fat earthly
mind (Mother puffs out her cheeks) which considers itself so
important and indispensable, and then the child sitting on its head
and playing! It is very amusing. * |
The last sentence: “…in the Truth-Creation the law is that of a constant unfolding without any Pralaya.” What is this constant unfolding? The Truth-Creation... it is the last line? (Mother consults the book) I think we have already spoken about this several times. It has been said that in the process of creation, there is the movement of creation followed by a movement of preservation and ending in a movement of disintegration or destruction; and even it has been repeated very often: “All that begins must end”, etc., etc. *In fact in the history of our universe there have been six consecutive periods which began by a creation, were prolonged by a force of preservation and ended by a disintegration, a destruction, a return to the Origin, which is called Pralaya; and that is why this tradition is there. But it has been said that the seventh creation would be a progressive creation, that is, after the starting-point of the creation, instead of its being simply followed by a preservation, it would be followed by a progressive manifestation which would express the Divine more and more completely, so that no disintegration and return to the Origin would be necessary. And it has been announced that the period we are in is precisely the seventh, that is, it would not end by a Pralaya, a return to the Origin, a destruction, a disappearance, but that it would be replaced by a constant progress, because it would be a more and more perfect unfolding of the divine Origin in its creation. * And this is what Sri Aurobindo says. He speaks of a constant unfolding, that is, the Divine manifests more and more completely; more and more perfectly, in a progressive creation. It is the nature of this progression which makes the return to the Origin, the destruction no longer necessary. All that does not progress disappears, and that is why physical bodies die, it's because they are not progressive; they are progressive up to a certain moment, then there they stop and most often they remain stable for a certain time, and then they begin to decline, and then disappear. page 208, Questions and Answers , volume 7 , 15 june , CWMCE |
Then the transformations cannot come about unless the Divine withdraws
into the Divine?
That, why, that is Pralaya! It is not transformations; it is the dissolution of the earth. It is said that there were six creations, that is, six exteriorisations of the universe, and that six times the universe went back – it is recounted in the scriptures, you know – went back into the Divine. But it is said that this is the end. It is evidently one ending, but it is not the completion. It is because the creation lacked something and it was necessary to withdraw it and remake it. And it is said that our present creation is the seventh, and being the seventh it is the real one, that is, it is the final one, and it will not be withdrawn again, that it will continue to be transformed and become more and more perfect, so as not to have to be withdrawn. page 170-71 , Questions and Answers , volume 6 , 16 june 1954 , CWMCE |