At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

14 November 1933

MYSELF: Mother, today what I heard from some sadhaks would have been better for me not to hear and for all not to hear. They were not saying it with any disrespect, still when they do utter things like “If the Supermind has descended, why should Mother’s eyes suffer?”, they don’t seem to know that it is not our business to bother about such matters. I was pondering: “Our limited mind, vision, consciousness can’t have the slightest inkling about these things; why then should we sit in judgement over them?” Maybe, I am posing myself as a superior being trying to judge others from an egoistic attitude. Still, I told them, “Have Sri Aurobindo and the Mother said anywhere that the Supermind has descended into their bodies?”

SRI AUROBINDO: No, I have not said that at all. It is quite impossible for the Supramental to take up the body before there has been the full Supramental change in the mind and the vital. X and others seem always to expect some kind of unintelligible miracle — they do not understand that it is a concentrated evolution, rapid but following the law of creation, that has to take place. A miracle can be only a moment’s wonder. A change according to the Divine Law can alone endure.

(14.11.33)