The Mother
with Letters on the Mother

The Mother, Sri Aurobindo and the Supramental Descent

X has made the following remark: "The present preparation is going on to bring down the Supermind into the physical of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo." Is it correct?

[Sri Aurobindo bracketed "The present preparation is going on to bring down the Supermind into the physical", and wrote:] Not quite correct in all points. The things to be brought down were in us no doubt—but not all outwardly manifested, from the beginning. Of course X's statement is altogether true only as far as the bracket goes.

14 September 1935

When you wrote "as far as the bracket goes", did you not notice that you cut off the last part of X's answer?

Yes, of course. What is being done is meant to prepare the manifestation of the supermind in the earth-consciousness down to Matter itself, so it can't be for the physical of myself or the Mother alone.

15 September 1935

It seems to me that if the Supermind has not descended into Mother's body-consciousness, it is not because she is not ready for it, but because she has first to prepare the physical of the sadhaks and of the earth to a certain extent. But some people here take it in the wrong way; they think that the Supermind has not yet descended into her body because she has not yet reached perfection. Am I right?

Page 92

Certainly. If we had lived physically in the Supermind from the beginning, nobody would have been able to approach us nor could the sadhana have been done. There could have been no hope of contact between ourselves and the earth and men. Even as it is, Mother has to come down towards the lower consciousness of the sadhaks instead of keeping always in her own, otherwise they begin to say, "How far away, how severe you were; you do not love me, I get no help from you etc. etc." The Divine has to veil himself in order to meet the human.

18 October 1935