There are all kinds of freedom—mental freedom, vital freedom, spiritual freedom—which are the fruits of successive masteries. But a completely new freedom has become possible with the Supramental Manifestation: it is the freedom of the body.

One of the very first results of the supramental manifestation was to give the body a freedom and an autonomy it has never before known. And when I say freedom, I don't mean some psychological perception or an inner state of consciousness, but something else and far better - it is a new phenomenon in the body, in the cells of the body. For the first time, the cells themselves have felt that they are free, that they have the power to decide. When the new vibrations came and combined with the old ones. I felt it at once and it showed me that a new world was really taking birth.
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- 17 October 1957
The Mother

It is remarkable that things you have understood in your consciousness... reappear as problems to be solved in the cells of the body.
In the cells, both things are there. The body is convinced of the divine Presence everywhere, that all is the Divine - it lives in that; and at the same time, it shrinks from certain contacts! I saw that this morning, both things at once, and I said, "Lord, I know nothing at all!"
There (gesture above the head), everything has been resolved, I could write books on how to resolve this or that, how to synthesis is made, etc., but here (the body)... I live this synthesis stumblingly. The two coexist, but it is still not THAT (gesture, hands clasped together, pointing upward).
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- 8 August 1958
The Mother

There are two parallel things that, from the eternal and supreme point of view, are of identical importance, in that both are equally essential for the realization to be a true realization.

On the one hand, there is what Sri Aurobindo—who, as the Avatar, represented the supreme Consciousness and Will on earth - declared me to be, that is, the supreme universal Mother; and on the other hand, there is what I am realizing in my body through the integral sadhana. I could be the supreme Mother; and not do any sadhana, and as a matter of fact, as long as Sri Aurobindo was in his body, it was he who did the sadhana, and I received the effects. These effects were automatically established in the outer being, but he was the one doing it, not I—I was merely the bridge between his sadhana and the world. Only when he left his body was I forced to take up the sadhana myself; not only did I have to do what I was doing before—being a bridge between his sadhana and the world—but I had to carry on the sadhana myself. When he left, he turned over to me the responsibility for what he himself had been doing in his body, and I had to do it. So there are both these things. Sometimes one predominates, sometimes the other (I don't mean successively in time, but... it depends on the moment), and they are trying to combine in a total and perfect realization: the eternal, ineffable and immutable Consciousness of the Executrix of the Supreme, and the consciousness of the Sadhak of the integral Yoga who strives in an ascending effort towards an ever increasing progressing.
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- 10 October 1958
The Mother