The Divine Collaborators

Preface

In these six short chapters, the first five of which were published in the Advent and the last in Mother India, I have tried to trace the remarkable identity that existed between the thoughts, aspirations and ideals of the Mother and those of Sri Aurobindo before they had know I or even heard of each other. Their first meeting took place at Pondicherry on the 29th March, 1914, but the Prayers, discourses and essays written by the Mother before that date breathe the same intense aspiration for and are instinct with the same flaming will to integral transformation, integral union and integral manifestation of God in the material life of man, as we find in the writings of Sri Aurobindo. The key thoughts of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga and philosophy were also the key thoughts of the Mother's life before their meeting on the physical plane; and an absolute identity in the germinal thoughts of two such original, dynamic, spiritual personalities could have and did have but one result when they met—a, close collaboration for the fulfilment of the divine Will upon earth.

The last chapter, written in the beginning of 1955, purports to give a brief outline of the developing work of the Mother as a progressive realisation of her life's mission. Those who feel interested in the Mother's experiences, thoughts and activities, are advised to read the foLl owing books:

1)Prayers and Meditations of the Mother

2)Words of the Mother

3)The Supreme Discovery—by the Mother

4)The Four Austerities—by the Mother

5)On Education—by the Mother

etc. etc.

RlSHABHCHAND