Satprem is remembered

Satprem is remembered TODAY, the 30^th October 2007, on his birthday anniversary. He was a rare person, who dedicated his life and existence, for the Future, for the mankind, for the future mankind, following The Words of The Mother, on the Way towards Supermanhood from the present manhood, on the Way transforming the mankind into the New Race, the race of the Supermen, the race of the Supramental Beings. After departure of The Mother, he left Sri Aurobindo Ashram, published Mother's Agenda, and wrote a number of books of immortal value, which shed Light on the New Way.

For those who are less acquainted with Satprem, it may be said that he was born in Paris in 1923. In course of his life, when he was twenty years old, he was arrested by Gestapo (of Germany during Hitler's regime) and spent about a year and a half in some concentration camps. He came out therefrom as an extremely shocked, upset and sad person. A spiritual destiny led him to Egypt and thence to India, where he took up a job in the French colonial government in Pondicherry. And he then knew Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Soon, he resigned and left for Guiana, Brazil, Africa etc.

He finally returned to India in 1953. On 3^rd March 1957, The Mother named him Satprem. His previous name was Bernard. Satprem was a close disciple and also a confidante of The Mother, and he stayed in Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Sometime after the Mother's Departure on 17^th November 1973, Satprem left the Ashram.

In 1982, Satprem withdrew completely to set out on a new venture, on a new adventure, uncertain and dangerous, of finding out the great passage in the next evolution, the evolution beyond Man. And specially, he undertook the task of  exploring the cause of "death" and the ways and means of conquering "death" - Life has evolved since billions of years, but it is conquered by "death" - and it continues to be an enigma for Mind also. Evolution beyond Mind shall have to be an Evolution beyond "death" too.

Sri Aurobindo made a prophecy:
Even there shall come as a high crown of all

The end of Death, the death of Ignorance.

[Savitri]

We find the same prophecy and promise again in Savitri, as if The Mother is declaring :

My soul and his indissolubly linked

In the one task for which our life's were born

To raise the world to God in deathless Light,

To bring down to the world on earth we came,

To change the earthly life to life divine.

[Savitri]

In order to find out the secret of going beyond mankind, beyond death and ignorance, The Mother says, one has to plunge into the cells of the Body. The cells are the Roots. The secret of the Transformation lies there.

During the 1960s and 1970s, The Mother stated that the cells of Her body were becoming more and more conscious. She said that the transformation of the cells, of the "mind of the cells", is the secret means of crucial importance and significance for the physical transformation. She also said that the cells of Her body were progressively organizing themselves to a have a kind of mind of their own.

She regarded death as a state of mind of the cells which the cells accepted. If they could change their perspective, if they did not accept death as something inevitable, this would help the cells maintain themselves without any deterioration and linger their longevity.

She further said that one of the keys to physical transformation was to overcome the effect of the "physical mind" and the subconscient. This part of the nature has the habit of being resigned to defeat; it has negative and pessimistic attitude and tendencies; it grumbles and is filled with inertia. As a result, it reinforces illnesses, and it is a great obstruction to the transformation of the body. She declared that this was one of the great obstacles to the emergence of the new species, and She also tried to bring in the higher consciousness into the physical and sub-conscient aspect part of Her being.

The Mother said :

There is a consciousness in the cells: it is what we call the ‘body consciousness' and it is wholly bound up with the body. This consciousness has much difficulty in changing, because it is under the influence of the collective suggestion which absolutely opposed to the transformation. So one has to struggle with this collective suggestion, not only with the collective suggestion of the present, but with the collective suggestion of the earth consciousness as a whole, the terrestrial human consciousness which goes back to the earliest formation of man. That has to be overcome before the cells can be spontaneously aware of the Truth, of Eternity of matter.

What is more essential in an Integral Transformation is to transform the consciousness of the cells. Transformation of the mind and the vital being has been achieved through yogic discipline - there has been transformation of consciousness. As The Mother has said, at least quite a few persons have been aware of the Divine Presence or the Truth of their being. But they have not attained the Total Transformation, the Integral Transformation. Even the global consciousness of the physical has been transformed - but that is not adequate for going beyond human state of darkness and disease and death. There has to be a transformation of the consciousness of the cells.

The Mother has said:

Finally, there is the physical consciousness itself, the material consciousness, the body consciousness, and that is the one which has so far never been entirely transformed. The global, overall consciousness of the body has been transformed, that is, one can throw off the bondage of thoughts, of habits that one no longer considers inevitable. That can change, it has been changed. But what remains to be changed is the consciousness of the cells.

Satprem concentrated and worked on bringing this change in the consciousness of the cells in the physical body. That is the Way for integrally transforming the human being towards Supermanhood. That work is Satprem's contribution to the mankind, in which he is indeed unique and it is not yet known if any one else has trodden on this Way.

Satprem says:

And then you begin to wonder if it is not the body that holds the true secret - if it is not these first cells or that microorganism from a few billion years ago that hold what we have been seeking in vain with all our scientific or intellectual artifices, if it is not this first spasm of "life" enclosed in a bubble that knows or recognizes its Nectar, its air from beyond the graves, its life denser than all our lives, its breathing more powerful than all our oxygens - and that, finally, not only the way out of this grave, but the way to let another air in here which will bring our walls down.

A new Life.

A new Earth.

A new Evolution - Evolution II.

[Satprem : Evolution II]

And Satprem lived and worked for this progressive journey beyond death and beyond Ignorance. He has definitely made a great deal of progressive exploration and advancement on the Way.

And the Work must go on till the goal is achieved. That is the greatest and the most important for the mankind - to go beyond mankind. The Work must  continue and will continue.

That is why Satprem should be remembered, as a brilliant pioneer.