He shore the cord of mind that ties the earth-heart
And cast away the yoke of Matter's law.
The body's rules bound not the spirit's powers …
You see, he says the heartbeats stop …
When life had stopped its beats, death broke not in ...
That's it! And he says that the mind also stops.
He dared to live when breath and thought were still.
That's it.
Thus could he step into that magic place
Which few can even glimpse with hurried glance …
When I read it, I didn't know he had spoken of that experience of the abolition of the mind—he did speak of it, and he says the heartbeats have stopped, but that one isn't dead. That's it.
I don't know, when I read it, I suddenly felt he was describing the transition from ordinary life to a supramental life.
I don't know why, but I very strongly said to myself that I absolutely had to show you this.
I don't know if the translation is very great, but it's the best I could do. (I am slowly translating the whole of Savitri—it'll take ten years!) You remember, we had translated a good deal of it, but it was the end of Savitri; this is the beginning.
But the abolition of the mind, isn't it the same as the complete tranquillity of the mind?
No.
I think what's necessary is this absolute tranquillity so That may go through without being distorted. The abolition [in Mother] was done because the body wanted to attempt the process of transformation of the cells, and it was already quite old, you see, so things had to go fast. It was for the movement to be swift. But of course, I can see it's risky ...
The body is learning very, very small details, very small things, all the time, all the time, night and day.
But it's strangely fragile at the same time, that's the curious thing. There's a sense of having gone out of all ordinary laws, and ... it's hanging in suspense, like that. Something which is seeking to be established.