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May
I Suggest Something? Mohini Verma Cell consciousness, both collective and individual. Amidst a million other glances at the Delhi Book fair at Pragati Maidan, mine fell on a staid looking book. I rolled over my tongue, reading out the title aloud, to see how it felt to my ears. I bought that book. “The Mind Of The Cell” has been written by Satprem, a Frenchman, a disciple of the late Mother of the Aurobindo Ashram at Auroville, Pondicherry. The 'Mother', being the torch-bearer of their line of thought and activities after the demise of Sri Aurobindo. It is a record of many of Mother’s saying, over a period of 11 years, snippets of the hours of conversation and systematic recordings between Mother and the author himself. This book is an English translation of his work in French. He is not a mystic, nor does he believe in the metaphysical Nirvana of the Mind. He believes in transcendence, both material and spiritual, of the homo sapiens into a higher, new species. I would try my best to not compel you to read this book. I will just ask you a few questions. If upon reading them, you feel, or had felt in the past, the urge to jointly find their answers together with another human being, you might want to read ‘ The Mind Of The Cell’. What is an ‘in’sight? When do you feel most ‘alive’? How about when your body and your mind, both are jointly and symbiotically involved in an action and ‘you’ are then concertedly doing something in such a conscious domain? Often , a detective makes a breakthrough in a case, when he succeeds in seeing the ‘obvious’, that which went unnoticed because of its proximity to the subject or object of the case itself. Most forms of transcendence mostly aim at rising above, only to let you attain an altitude, which enables you to possess a third person objectivity or view. Similarly, among a plethora of facts that you are bombarded with everyday, which are the ones that manage to ‘pleasantly’ surprise you the most? Let me guess, they are mostly not the Ripley’s believe-it-or-not trivia or a complex corollary to an intrinsic theory in quantum mechanics. Most often than not, it is generally something very ‘obvious’ about yourself, which you had as yet never noticed or realized. That which successfully endows you with a peculiar freshness of a “WOW”. A fact about ‘you’ in principle, not necessarily about you as an agglomeration of the human form. Some day though, it would indeed be the latter case, a true marvel in itself, but when actually thought about, evolves into something even better than just pure marvel, maybe partial understanding, but surely much better. Maybe then you would truly thank me for suggesting you to pick up this book. You do not have to believe it. Just try to understand what it is talking about. Not supernatural, absolutely not mystical but infact entirely material( Not to be confused with Materialistic) All I can say is - Go Discover Your Self ( I absolutely abhor the way it sounds, all preachy and like a self-help-book-cover, sure of its sporadic success. I kindly request you to take these words literally, and as you would find out, words can only describe things within the limits of our previous experiences ). The author may be contacted at mohiniv@gmail.com. In the curious case of the reader not being able to find the book, the author may consider lending her personal copy. |
