... that 18th of November. Perhaps the first terrestrial wave of the joy of the new world.¹ On November 20, at 8.15 a.m., Mother's body was laid into the box. Then the box was taken to the Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo, and on the upper chamber of the Samadhi, Mother's body was lowered. * * * In the subtle physical, a supramental body, which Mother had seen twice, was already formed. In the... be perpetual equilibrium, and therefore there would be the immortality of the body or a continuous renewal of the body preserving the individual form or changing that form according to the will. Mother's body was rapidly moving towards that state of the transformed body. And the process was a 'methodical' work in which one part after the other and all the parts and all the groups of cells would learn... 'efflorescent'. As she said: And it was that: no sex, neither man or woman—no sex. It was a form like that (Mother draws a silhouette in space, very slender).... ¹ Gradually, one part of Mother's body began to form within itself a new body. But the process was extremely painful. During August 1970, her body fought with death. It was a repetition of the turning points of 1962 and 1968. In con ...
... whirl in a mantle of electrons, because this body is its own atoms and its own cells anywhere in the terrestrial universe and at any second? Such is the “new way” that was in the making in Mother's body, and through one body, perhaps in the entire earth body. We will only describe a few suggestive stages. 67.23 The body has become transparent, so to speak, and almost nonexistent; I don't know... in everyone's body as if in one's own, since one is this body and that body and countless bodies (and not only bodies). The best thing we can do is to follow the curve of the phenomenon in Mother's body, in all its tentative steps. Explanations come afterwards; at the time of the experience, it is strange. This first cry: 63.107 But for all that to change, a direct power is needed! A power... perfect knowledge that it wasn't dying! But it was the consciousness of a dying body, with all the anguish, all the suffering, all those things, but there was the awareness that it wasn't this (Mother's body) that was dying. And it lasted a long time, it lasted all night. Afterwards, I learned that X had died in the early hours of the morning. Then I understood.... But that was also how Mother was ...
... other can dissolve—it doesn't matter any more.² When Sri Aurobindo left his body, the accumulated result of all his physical consciousness was transmitted to Mother's body, and thus there was no waste. But now, apart from Mother's body, there was no other body which was so developed that it could receive, if Mother left her body, the accumulated result of her physical consciousness. This was... Sometimes even medical knowledge or technical knowledge that I don't at all have—yet that I have, of course, since¦ I say, This is how it is, that is how it is....' It's rather amusing.¹ * * * Mother's body had become a living and conscious laboratory the new species. Sri Aurobindo had written long ago: The animal is a living laboratory in which Nature, it is said,] worked out man. Man himself... well be a thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation she wills to work out the superman....² Three simultaneous and inter-related processes were going on in Mother's body. Firstly, there was a progressive dissolution of the Inconscience at its utmost bottom. Secondly, there was the infiltration permeation and invasion of the Supermind in the cellular consciousness ...
... André [Mother's son], Champaklalji [the helper], Dr. Sanyal, Dyumanbhai, Kumud [the attendant] and myself. I talked with André and told him that I wanted to wait for some time and then take the Mother's body down, place it in the Meditation Hall for people to see. We would keep the body in such a way that it was not disturbed, then we would decide what to do. André agreed to my proposal. He wanted to... carry Her quietly, carefully downstairs and lay Her in the Meditation Hall. After some time we shall call people.' He agreed to our proposal.... At about 2 o'clock [in the morning] we brought the Mother's body down, placed Her on the bed, arranged everything. Then I went out, called Mona, told him to come and see me with four other boys, five of my lieutenants, so to say. When they came I explained to... avidly curious visitors amidst glaring neon lights and droning fans, just EIGHT HOURS AND FIFTY MINUTES after. What universal complicity bound all these people together, who ALL fully knew that Mother's body was to be left in peace in her room, who ALL were fully aware of Mother's "instructions"? Had they wanted to get rid of her, they could not have rushed any faster. Pranab himself brazenly ...
... consciousness held within a human face and form, with a recognisable receptiveness to our calls and a sunshine-smile for every agonised grope of our beings, is missed. And, when we realise that the Mother's body which had kept the now-freed energies busy with its maintenance was precisely the fiery point at which a divine future for the very substance of earth- Page 135 man was being moulded... have even a few open clues to the unfailing character of the power brought by the Supramental Avatar. A question was put to him in 1933: "It seems to me that if the Supermind is not established in Mother's body-consciousness, it is not because she is not ready for it like us, but because in order to establish it she has first to prepare the physical of the sadhaks and of the earth to a certain extent.... never be anticipated for either of them. What actually happened may be guessed from another point covered by Sri Aurobindo's "Certainly". The correspondent has opined that the reason why the Mother's body had not been divinised by the time he wrote his letter was that "the physical of the sadhaks and of the earth" had not yet been prepared to the needed extent. This point comes out very clearly in ...
... limited to a particular body, but it isn't so! Scientists know this. Matter is a continuum; there is no separation anywhere. An electromagnetic wave is everywhere at once, in everything. And so Mother's body began to experience truly fantastic things, which she confided to me because she knew I didn't think her crazy. She felt she COULD talk to me, while she couldn't say a word to the others. She could... this mental dimension of the process, but it is in the body that the "understanding," that special way of embracing things, took place. It took place in the consciousness of the body. That is, Mother's body embraced many sufferings in order to work on them – to work on that falsehood, the enormous falsehood that illness is, that suffering is, that pain is, that death is. And by filtering a new... kind... REGARDLESS of what we want or don't want. So why not with a little of our breath? For once in evolution, human beings could participate in their own transformation. Constantly, constantly, Mother's body used to repeat that same vibration, that same mantra. Anybody can repeat it. OM NAMO BHAGAVATE OM NAMO BHAGAVATE OM NAMO BHAGAVATE OM NAMO BHAGAVATE OM NAMO BHAGAVATE OM NAMO ...
... upon an experience or get some satisfaction in it for any length of time - it is impossible. Perhaps it became "much longer and much more difficult" because the cellular aggregate that was the Mother's body was being constantly bombarded by all kinds of vibrations (e.g. from people who came to her). But how else would they "have the occasion to touch the transforming Force"? Page 740 Indeed... ar; others are vague, scarcely audible. With sight... everything is behind a luminous mist... there is no precision - and then, suddenly... an extraordinarily precise vision of detail. The Mother's body had reached a condition when it was ready for anything as may be decided by the Supreme Presence - "no choice, no preference, not even aspiration, a total, total surrender". Ah! she felt like "a... she answered: I am trying to do it - not by an arbitrary will... simply there is "Something" or Someone or a Consciousness or anything (I do not want to speak of it) which is using this (Mother's body) and trying to make something of it. Page 749 That is to say, at the same time, I am doing and I am witnessing, and the "I", I do not know where it is: it is not within there, it is ...
... feels it either can or cannot do something, plunge or not plunge, jump or not jump: the body is the "bridge," it is the body that will perceive the possibility of its own next way of being. Thus Mother's body was beginning to perceive itself as porous, or "friable," permeable. But many repeated experiences are needed for all the cells to know. Such is the basis of the process of supramental tra... 130.31. Here, it was not a rock, but bottles of mouthwash! After all, a bottle is made of Matter, just as we are. Now suddenly, those bottles, and all the objects in the bathroom, including Mother's body, began to vibrate with a strange, continuous life, a life without division and so harmonious, a world so compactly ordered and luminous, that not a single atom of disorganization could occur in... ," a supermicroscope, something outside Matter giving us another vision of Matter—it is Matter itself that perceives itself this way, as it really is, with its own eyes. It was Mother's cells, Mother's body, that suddenly perceived everything differently. It is in her body She suddenly noticed that the objects responded, just as in our heads we may suddenly notice a vibration signaling the presence ...
... Gupta - Vol. 6 OBSERVATIONS AND NOTES Observations I GRACE is the Divine made earthly and human. And that is our Mother. The Mother's body was not meant to give us, to make a gift to us of a transformed human body, for our contemplation, our delectation. It had a more serious purpose. It was to furnish the material stuff for the... immediately changed, transmuted into the supramental body. That body must descend or reveal itself or clothe itself with a new material substance. That new material substance was being prepared in the Mother's body which was the workshop, as it were, for the Divine body. She has been building in this way not only a personal body of her own, the new Divine body, but also a 'generic' body for humanity at... neither in respect of its substance nor of its functionings. Page 33 There can only be a re-orientation or transforming of the cells and of their functions. Medicine in Mother's body is not for changing the body - helping its metabolism, but for the body to change the medicines so that these may acquire new properties. Indeed all that her body takes in, even as food, tends to ...
... cleaned with eau de Cologne, and was clothed in a spotless new dress. Nolini Kanta Gupta was informed, and when he joined them, the arrangements were finalised. Nirod and Bula too had come up and the Mother's body was gently carried and brought down at 2 a.m. on 18 November, and laid in state on a couch in the Meditation Hall. The body was draped in a gold-laced silk-shawl, and she lay bathed in immutable... the New Body - the golden supramental body - didn't arise out of the old body as the result of the prolonged sadhana of transformation? Nolini answered this unformulated question thus: The Mother's body belonged to the old creation. It was meant to be the pedestal of the New Body. It served its purpose well. The New Body will come. Page 822 This a test, how far we are faithful to Her... early hours of the morning of the 20th, the courtyard of the Ashram gradually filled, and by seven there were perhaps a few thousand in silent meditation and chastened expectancy. At 8 a.m., the Mother's body was placed in the rosewood casket, and the lid was closed and hermetically sealed. The casket was then carried by eight sadhaks, and preceding and following it were those who had long been closest ...
... to realize this paradox of the awareness of the Whole, an awareness lived (not just perceived but lived) in every part, every element making up the Whole.... 9 And it is this paradox that Mother's body was reproducing physiologically. So, she continued, in order to give form to those elements, it all began with Separation, and it was Separation that gave birth to this division between what... idea of hell, or that of a Good eternally good... all that, all of it is childishness. 9 And this is where metaphysics connects with physiology, and the paradox of the universe with that of Mother's body: That's far too philosophical for my taste, not concrete enough. But this morning's experience was concrete, and concrete because it stemmed from extremely concrete sensations in the body, from... There must be no more "sides"—then "death" will be no more: it becomes something else. Something else that is on both sides. Obviously a new type of life. The one that was slowly being built in Mother's body—slowly and precariously and perilously: Its really an odd state.... There are even times when you feel that a mere nothing could make you lose contact and that only if you remain very still and ...
... unreality. 23 Not that Matter was becoming unreal in the way of the illusionists; it was the human way of seeing Matter that was receding into the past. It is very strange; actually it was as if Mother's body were becoming an increasingly clearer and more precise instrument—true and exact because it was total—which could no longer register anything other than what was really there—a kind of total su... "adapted" to our life or if they are some unreal and removable parasites. Lived Vision That innumerable life came in little dabs of experience; one could feel it was groping its way through Mother's body in order to find its right means of expression. A new kind of life to be set up, as when a certain little tarsier in the Philippines had to open its binocular vision for the first time, but here... really is. Time = Consciousness = Rhythm = Matter. Another rhythm of Matter. What is the true rhythm of Matter? What does that true Matter look like, that physical world as it is, in which Mother's body, Mother's cellular consciousness, "traveled" instantly and everywhere? × ...
... Mother herself in her body of light with the Mahakali power in her, but not the actual form of Mahakali. 26 September 1933 Page 274 Last night I saw in a dream that Light from the Mother's body was coming down into my body and transforming it. Good—it is the opening of the physical consciousness to the Mother. 30 September 1933 The bodies I wrote about this morning were like... circle. In the centre of the circle appears a stone image of Shiva nearly two feet high. Afterwards, out of this image the Mother emerges. She is in meditation. The sunlight falls just behind the Mother's body. What does it signify? Rocks = the physical (most material) being. An opening in the material making room for the formation of the spiritual consciousness there. Stone image of Shiva = ...
... says, "After all, it would make a difference mainly for others! For me..." Only, you understand, they are still in this kind of illusion of death because this [the body] disappears; and even this [Mother's body] no longer quite knows which of the two is [true]!... For it, the truth should be Matter—well, even about that, it isn't quite sure ( laughing ) what that is! There is the other, the other way of... Like a breath of another way of seeing, another way of feeling, another way of listening. And that's something drawing near, as it were, and then getting veiled. But then in the appearance [of Mother's body], in the appearance it's... ( Mother makes a chaotic gesture ). Yet, quite visibly, I am not ill, but at times it's... very difficult. Very difficult. And then, several times I've had both [ways ...
... the Ashram planning to break up the Samadhi. I do not know anything about breaking up the Samadhi. A friend abroad has been asking that the Samadhi be opened so that one may know whether the Mother's body is really lifeless or is a radiant living presence in spite of the decomposition which was going on while it was lying in state. What put the idea of a plan to break up the Samadhi into Udar's... most unbelieving". Satprem twists the Mother's remark that her body must have the conviction that "it is useful for something" into meaning that the single conceivable usefulness of the Mother's body was not her unparalleled endeavour to supramentalise the corporeal consciousness but rather its usefulness consisted of the support and succour she afforded to her one and only true disciple ...
... several times: when the experience comes, it isn't limited to one body. Only, the consciousness—the observing consciousness—isn't the same everywhere: there are DEGREES of consciousness, and here [in Mother's body] it appears to be a MORE CONSCIOUS center of consciousness, that's all; but otherwise... For the consciousness itself it's that way too: at times it is very much awake, at other times not so awake... and more that way), isn't familiar like something that happens in a particular body: it's just one way of being among all the others. It's becoming more and more like that. The reaction here [in Mother's body] isn't any more intimate than the reaction in others. And it's barely more perceptible: it all depends on the state of attentiveness and concentration of the consciousness (it's all movements of ...
... reasons for this. I have given some of them in Sri Aurobindo's case in the chapter 'God Departs'. Sri Aurobindo wrote to me about the action of medicine on the Mother's body: "Medicines have quite a different action on the Mother's body than they would have on yours or X's or anybody else's and the reaction is not usually favourable. Her physical consciousness is not the same as that of ordinary ...
... We need not "transform" Falsehood: we need to let the Truth shine through. We need to lift the veil, to make Death disappear—that which makes for Death. And perhaps the work of the cells in Mother's body was not so much to transform themselves as to dissolve the veil, that which prevents things from being there, true, pure, immortal—as they are. The opaque periphery around the cells. The periphery... Movement without vanishing into thin air or becoming "undone" too abruptly. Looking at it in the ordinary way, externally, superficially, you might say there has been a great deterioration [in Mother's body]; well, the body doesn't feel that way at all! What it feels is that a particular movement, effort, gesture or action belongs to the world—this world of Ignorance [i.e., the world of death]—and ...
... It can happen in a second. The secret of that second is in enough humans becoming aware of the utter falseness of the mud puddle. And this is what is happening in the world's body as it was in Mother's body—but of course, everything is the same Body! A dizzying little tilt into disintegration, sudden illness, sudden death—countless little flash-deaths, continental, national, political and religious... one considers this side: the tremendous Positiveness that has the universal impudence to knock down our reasonable institutions—as it knocked down the sense of "good health" and "bad health" in Mother's body in order to teach it something other than ideas of good health and bad health: perhaps the state in which that does not exist, and there remains only what really is. The world is being hammered ...
... Cells Mother or The New Species - II 21: The Cellular Level We shall never fully appreciate the evolutionary significance of what was happening in Mother's body—until the new stage is here, visible and realized. Then we shall say: Oh, so that's what it is! In short, we are asked to understand a little in advance, and it is quite possible that our understanding... laws of our Matter as if they did not exist—and it is not really that it "cures," it is rather that it makes you step into another kind of Matter (yet you remain apparently in the same one, since Mother's body was there, "concrete", tangible and firmly seated in her armchair) in which all these things do not exist. A reversal of consciousness, Mother said. A change of vibration that changes everything ...
... must be the fact that in the eight years since her stay in Japan she had grown in spiritual stature and could manifest a greater divine Presence. A few years after Tagore's interview the Mother's body again suffered — now a much more serious illness as a result of nearly four years of the physico-spiritual practice of what we knew as Soup-distribution. Every evening, at first in the upstairs... strain on her which could be compensated only if something in our being went out to her in return. Unfortunately the yogic traffic was often one-way. The consequence was a severe strain on the Mother's body. This strain was the real cause of her illness. Sri Aurobindo is reported to have said under his breath: "Brutes!" The Mother suffered for quite a time. At one point she called the best ...
... do. At that time, there were present Andre-da, Champaklal-ji, Dr. Sanyal, Dyuman-bhai, Kumud and myself. I talked with Andre-da and told him that I wanted to wait for some time and then take Mother's body down, place it in the Meditation Hall for people to see. We would keep the body in such a way that it was not disturbed, then we would decide what to do. Andre-da agreed to my proposal. He wanted... shall call people." He agreed to our proposal. We came down, Dyuman-bhai, Bula-da, Nirod-da, Kumud and myself and arranged the place with the bed there as you saw. At about 2 o'clock we brought Mother's body down, placed her on the bed, arranged everything. Then I went out, called Mona, told him to come and see me with four other boys, five of my lieutenants, so to say. When they came I explained ...
... state of meditation or trance. You would protect the Mother's body in an occult way.' 'The Mother once thought that She would leave Her body,' Dada told us. 'She asked me to go and call Nolini. "I would like to say something before leaving my body," She informed me. Dr Prabhat Sanyal motioned to me to indicate that the Mother's body was in good health and everything was fine with Her ...
... colors. 2 And we recall the "iridescent light" She had perceived at the turn of the century in the depths of the Inconscient—which means an immense course completed (we could say by the earth: Mother's body is an earthly body like everyone else's), since that light was no longer over there, beneath unfathomable layers, deep in a kind of "cave," but just here, at the edge of her body, twinkling through... physiologically broaden its cellular consciousness without bursting or being dissolved? And finally, the little twinkling could really enter the body of the world only if Sri Aurobindo's or Mother's body had, in some way, become the body of the Earth. "Each atom," said Sri Aurobindo. The Little Doors Mother would be made to live the answer; Matter itself was going to provide it. As a ...
... I understood absolutely what it was to have the divine consciousness in the body. And then this body here, that body there, that body there ( gestures to this side and that side and all around Mother's body ), it did not matter; it went about from one body to another, altogether free and independent, knowing the limitations and possibilities of each body—absolutely wonderful, I have never, never before ...
... 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 ...
... peace settled in... ( Mother closes her eyes with a smile... then she opens her eyes wide ), an all-powerful peace. And everything that was painful disappeared. Peace.... Only, the body [Mother's body] has an advantage in life: it was built and conceived in such a way that it does not desire pleasant sensations. It does not desire (what shall I say?), yes, the sensation of pleasure, pleasant ...
... physical envelope the Mother and a number of disciples saw the supramental Light suffusing it. And at the very time of his withdrawal the Supramental Power made its permanent base in the Mother's body, beginning with the brain-mind. This is what is known as the "Mind of Light." From then onward a deeper and deeper digging-in by the Light continued. In reaction against the invasion by ...
... choice of transforming their own bodies in isolation from common humanity. In 1933 a sadhak asked Sri Aurobindo whether he was right in believing that if the Supermind was not established in the Mother's body-consciousness, it was not because she was not ready for it like us, but because in order to establish it she had first to prepare the physical of the sadhaks and of the earth to a certain extent ...
... other is in difficulty. And depending on their receptivity, I must find a way to make them understand that they shouldn't worry, that it's not an "illness," but... the body's resistance. The body [Mother's body] has learned that at its own expense!...Its constantly like that: if you are in the true position, everything is fine—provided you don't observe yourself, don't keep observing, "Oh, the body is ...
... courtyard below [Mother's room] must have heard how we had to fight with Her to make Her eat a little." [Original English] This fight over food (to mention only one) created a sharp conflict in Mother's body; she was torn between their suggestions—"If you don't eat, you're going to die"—and the thrust of the Experience. ...
... been perfect, really; all that he can do he does to the utmost of his ability. So all this is very good. But there is a considerable difference between the real fact, that is, what this body [Mother's body] represents, and X's conception. He has always remained all the way down. This is what, in fact, had ruined his health for a time. And the odd thing is that every time he was ill and CONSENTED to ...
... its mask of immortality. × During that meditation, I was trying to pass all my life force into Mother's body. ...
... recovery in the Mother's eye-trouble had not been answered. Then I went to sleep. Suddenly someone spoke: 'Would you like to know why your prayer is not answered and why this attack has come on the Mother's body?' He took my hand and we went down and down as if into a deep well. Soon I found myself in a place which was dark and yet visible. The Voice said: 'The sun never shines here. This place is always ...
... I can't say "knowledge," because it's not mental, but an awareness (there's no word for it in French), a perception—and nothing more, it doesn't have any action ( that is, any repercussion in Mother's body ). So then, the whole problem lies there: There are those who found this, the vertical ascent to the heights, and who isolated themselves from the world (they weren't able to do that completely ...
... the cells that weren't able to enter this plastic state of consciousness. But the way the work is being done, there is no categorical division [into groups of conscious or unconscious cells in Mother's body]: there are imperceptible (almost) states of variations between the different parts of the being. So you wonder, "Where? What? When? How? What's going to happen?..." It's increasingly becoming a ...
... see ... I am trying to do it—not out of an arbitrary will, not at all: there is simply "something," or someone, or a consciousness or whatever (I don't want to talk about it) which uses this ( Mother's body ) to try and do something with it. This means that I do the work and am a witness at the same time, and as for the "I," I don't know where it is: it's not inside, it's not up above, it's not .. ...
... never yet been done. The Mother said that hers was the first human body to undertake on Sri Aurobindo's command this radical experiment. May I request you to consider the implications of what the Mother's body was meant to be and to do? Let me remind you of my report of a half-whispered semi-soliloquy by the Mother as once she passed by me in the afternoon on her way to her brief siesta. Its gist was ...
... matter at all. ( silence ) But there are some points one should nevertheless know... and for which there is no certainty. For instance, to what extent does the presence of a physical body [Mother's body], in the world as it is now, act on the Work that is being done? To what extent?... Is it indispensable? Is it really indispensable? And if it is, what is the effect and the extent? In other words ...
... of what must not be is dimmed, erased as something far away and nonexistent. That's what is being prepared. What makes the work a little more complicated is that it isn't limited to this ( Mother's body ), it's everything, everything around... and to a rather considerable distance. Because the contact in thought is almost perfectly established: it's impossible for someone to think [of Mother] without ...
... single aggregate of cells, it would be very easy by comparison, but the interchange, the union, the reciprocity is automatic and spontaneous, and constant. You feel that the effect going on here [in Mother's body] naturally, necessarily and spontaneously has its consequences very far and wide; only, it makes difficulties worse, and that's why it takes a lot of time. There is a correspondence, you see: something ...
... century there has not been a day when I haven't had a pain in my abdomen." Sri Aurobindo has written of some deep-seated chronic troubles in his body, which he had Yogically tackled. The Mother's body had, besides this abdominal weakness, two abnormal characteristics. Udar once reported to me that she had told him of her body's tendency to dizziness at a height and a spontaneous aversion to ...
... immense and such as nobody else could endure and it had become greater after the passing of Sri Aurobindo: now the concentration of the Supermind's transformative pressure was wholly on the Mother's body. Sri Aurobindo has well summed up the Avatar's situation: "It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to ...
... happened at last. I wonder when the world will realise that in 1956 the greatest event in its history took place. Of course the detailed working out of the Supermind upon earth and even in the Mother's body will take long, but the full general pres- Page 96 ence of it in her is there now and also its general working on ourselves and the world. There is now hope for the weakest ...
... took a drastic short cut towards a goal which otherwise would have taken decades to approach. As soon as he withdrew from his physical envelope the supramental Light made its permanent base in the Mother's body, beginning with the brain-mind. This is what is known as the "Mind of Light". From then onward a deeper and deeper digging-in by the Light continued. In reaction against the invasion by the ...
... If they have a greater experience or consciousness than the Mother, they should not stay here but go and save the world with it. If the Supermind has not been established in Mother's body-consciousness, it is not because she is not ready for it like us, but because in order to establish it she has to prepare first the physical of the Ashram people, and of the earth, to a certain ...
... as that is so Mother can take no other attitude. What is the real cause of the Mother's illnesses? It is due to attacks. As the material is not yet conquered, the Mother's body has to bear the attacks which come daily and to which the sadhaks freely open the doors. If she cut off her consciousness altogether from that of the sadhaks or put them outside her consciousness ...
... Then why don't you understand? If medicines can't help, what's the use of putting foreign matter in the eye, merely because it is a medicine? Medicines have a quite different action on the Mother's body than they would have on yours or R's or anybody else's and the reaction is not usually favourable. Her physical consciousness is not the same as that of ordinary people—though even in ordinary people ...
... available in the same way—only we must know how to approach her, how to attune ourselves. —Nolini Kanta Gupta November 17, 1973 l The Mother's body belonged to the old creation. It was meant to be the pedestal of the New Body. It served its purpose well. The New Body will come. This is a test, how far we are faithful to her, true to her ...
... one receives in the subtle body is easy to transmit both physical through that posture. There are so many Asanas and one can get the right position, then the body doesn't move. NIRODBARAN: The Mother's body also stoops down in meditation SRI AUROBINDO: Her body is very plastic. It changes according to the nature of the meditation. You know, formerly her appearance used to change. NIRODBARAN: ...
... This has to be done as our immediate and urgent business of life. (2) I said the earth-consciousness was not quite ready yet for the final transformation of the Mother's body, that is to say, the material substance of the body. Therefore it could not accommodate the incoming transforming force – and it broke: in breaking it must have broken through, through the hard ...
... medicines, In the evening, on her asking, they lift her up several times. Around 7 o'clock her pulse and respiration gradually decline. Leaves her body at 7.25 p.m. - Nov 20 The Mother's body is placed in the Samadhi in the Ashram courtyard, in a vault above Sri Aurobindo's, at 8.20 a.m. The Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided ...
... 23: Accident; impacted fracture of the right thigh on the eve of the November Darshan, due, as Sri Aurobindo himself dis-closed, to an attack of hostile forces which had been conspiring to attack Mother's body. While Sri Aurobindo concentrated exclusively on protecting Mother the attack came on him. The work of Mother and Sri Aurobindo has been to bring down and establish on earth a light of heaven. This ...
... Mother found Sri Aurobindo again, alive—as if the veil of death had vanished. As if what made death also made Matter and our material perception obscure. In that light—that light in Matter, in Mother's body (which even gave her a fever)—death was abolished, or the veil of death was abolished, one perceived without death. Death is a veil, and the "other side" of death is not elsewhere, in some nonmatter ...
... the ego. 17 Perhaps, it was the ego that made 'death' itself possible; without the ego, it might mean immortality itself. Page 776 VI It was no doubt true that the Mother's body was, as Satprem put it, "a symbol of the whole earth" and hence the vicissitudes of her sadhana of the body, the sadhana of integral transformation, had a relevance for the Ashram, and for the ...
... world of disorder and darkness, as is the entire earth in the material world, as is the material world in the entire universe.”¹ That is why there is an intense, unceasing aspiration in the Mother's body—it is not a mental or vital aspiration imposed upon the body, but the body's own separate, individual, unquenchable aspiration—for a dynamic union with the Supreme through service... "This body ...
... or sorrow, pleasure or suffering, all that comes to me from Thee will be welcome. Each one of Thy gifts will be always for me a gift divine bringing with it the supreme felicity.” The Mother's body has participated as much as her soul in this constant aspiration for and surrender to the Divine. It would even seem, reading some characteristic Prayers, that the immediate aspiration of her ...
... Fahrenheit (it is always hot in Pondicherry), this is what I saw; others may put any logic they like on it, I have only the Philistine eyes of the New World, or rather the little mischievous eyes of Mother's body. How strange that even Mother's cells were humorous. But since I was the Philistine, She tried to explain to me as best She could: Just try for a moment, try and imagine you're the Divine! Everything ...
... the transformation of the world take place—or is it, perhaps, taking place? How will the transition from false matter to true Matter occur? And what is this true Matter, how does it behave? Mother's body had become like the laboratory of the New World. × * There is the striking example ...
... the note: All that encourages the lower movements and actions must be avoided. Blessings. * * * S. wrote to Mother offering her body to have the illnesses and obstacles that Mother's body was having. Mother said, "It is kind of her. But I have no ailments. The body is in course of transformation. As for obstacles, everybody has got them." ...
... strain. She left the body on 17th Page 41 November and it was laid at rest in the Samadhi on 20th November, just six months after Champaklal had warned us at the staircase. The Mother's body having been placed in the Samadhi, people left one by one. I left towards the end and again came back after some time. A single man still sat there. It was Mother's lion, . Page 42 ...
... pray For vengeance on thee for my slaughtered child. Exit. ALMUENE She has baulked my fury. No, I'll wait for thee. Thou shalt hear first what I have done with Doonya And thy soft mother's body. Murad! Murad! Thou hast no son. Would God thou hadst a son! Exit. NUREDDENE Not upon others fall Thy heavy scourge Who are not guilty. O Doonya, O my mother, In fiercest peril from ...
... of the race and he gladly accepted their retarding perilous load in spite of or perhaps because of his own exceptional gifts and abilities. Apropos a query about some temporary complaint in the Mother's body many years ago, he wrote: "we have not sought perfection for our own separate sake, but as part of a general change - creating a possibility of perfection for others. That could not have been done ...
... only water is seen everywhere. In the middle, a luminous, golden, blue-coloured lotus is seen. In the centre of the lotus, the Mother is seated in her luminous, golden, white body. From the Mother's body as well as from the lotus, rays of light in various colours keep spreading all around. Both the blessed hands of the Mother are stretching out and moving all round. The Mother is also seen in the ...
... the body, Sri Aurobindo said that it was he who would leave his body for the sake of the work and that the Mother was to stay back to accomplish their work of Transformation. He said that the Mother's body was better suited and fitted for the work. So, it was a kind of a prophetic destiny, just as "Satyavan must die." There was almost a necessity of Sri Aurobindo having to leave his body. ...
... what it is.” 2 × In a letter of 1.2.1937 Sri Aurobindo wrote: “Medicines have quite a different action on the Mother's body than they would have on yours or anybody else's and the reaction is not usually favourable.” SABCL, vol. 25, p. 376 . × ...
... is extremely improbable, if not absolutely impossible, that those who lived in close contact with the Mother from 24 November 1926 onward should have hopefully but erroneously waited to see the Mother's body completely transformed and that yet the Mother, knowing their minds, should not have unequivocally corrected their error but left it to them to discover it by studying her talks after she had left ...
... A Dream of Reality* In a dream on August 15,1974, early in the morning, I saw the Mother lying on a bed. Her body was immobile. I questioned myself: "If the Mother's body was put in a casket, how is it that it is here?" Then I saw Her hands moving and Her eyes open. Suddenly, while I was wondering, I found Her standing near me. She embraced me and I had the same ...
... Here is one of them: A Dream of Reality In a dream on 15 August 1974, early in the morning, I saw the Mother lying on a bed. Her body was immobile, I questioned myself: "If the Mother's body was put in a casket, how is it that it is here ? Then I saw her hands moving and her eyes open. Suddenly, while I was wondering, I found her standing near me and I had the same feeling ...
... years I have been going to Matrimandir on the 21st February and taking there the blessing-packets of the Mother and flowers given by you. You also know that I took the resolution in front of the Mother's body that I would go to the Matrimandir on Her Birthdays. But unhappily all kinds of disturbances are still there regarding the subject of the Matrimandir. That is why I am asking you whether I should ...
... happened with her eyes. Sometimes we notice that she catches a cold. How do these things happen since she is the incarnated Divine? It is due to attacks. As the material is not yet conquered, the Mother's body has to bear the attacks which come daily and to which the sadhaks freely open the doors. If she cut off her consciousness altogether from that of the sadhaks or put them outside her consciousness ...
... Then why don't you understand? If medicines can't help, what's the use of putting foreign matter in the eye merely because it is a medicine? Medicines have a quite different action on the Mother's body than they would have on yours or X 's or anybody else's and the reaction is not usually favourable. Her physical consciousness is not the same as that of ordinary people—though even in ordinary ...
... explains everything—everything, everything, everything. And that annuls nothing. It is a hundred times more wonderful than anything we can imagine. The question is to know whether that ( Mother's body ) will be able to follow.... In order to follow, not only must it endure but acquire a new form, a new life. That, I do not know. In any case, it does not matter—the consciousness is clear and the ...
... the feeling that something was about to happen. I hoped for its return this night, but nothing came about. It was the first time. For hours. There was nothing else but That. And this ( Mother's body ), it was like an absorbing sponge. Only the head, it is still grey, dull—grey and dull. But then, all the same, a very clear vision of whatever has happened to the body during these few months ...
... I am trying to do it—not by an arbitrary will, nothing of the kind; simply there is "Something" or Someone or a Consciousness or anything (I do not want to speak of it) which is using this ( Mother's body ) and trying to make something of it. That is to say, at the same time I am doing and I am witnessing, and the "I", I do not know where it is: it is not within there, it is not up there, it is not ...
... universe. × See Agenda of March 26, 1959 (Vol. I, p. 288 ): the Titan sent especially to attack Mother's body, and who uses the people around her for this purpose. × One of Mother's personalities. ...
... signals: time 'slows down' as speed increases. It is like the story of the space traveler returning to Earth less aged than his twin: you pass into another 'frame of reference.' It is striking that Mother's body-experiences very often parallel recent theories of modern physics, as if mathematical equations were the means of formulating in human language certain complex phenomena, remote from our day to ...
... the "unified-field theory," the theory to which Einstein devoted the last years of his life in vain, that would describe the movements of both planets and atoms in a single mathematical equation. Mother's body-consciousness is one with the movement of the universe, Mother lives the "unified-field theory" in her body. In so doing she opens up to us not merely one more physical theory, but the very path ...
... that rapture continually, surely that would bring too rapid a transformation—there are still a lot of things to be changed, a lot, a whole lot of things.... What people see [when they look at Mother's body] is only the appearance, but this appearance is a reflection of something else.... ( silence ) There's a sort of knowledge (is it a knowledge?) or foreknowledge given to the body of how this appearance ...
... conventionally called bad will (I hope this is true! If there is any, they haven't become aware of it yet), but those things come as keen indications of the different points [of work or resistance in Mother's body], so it results in what's called pains, or a sense of disorder, or a discomfort. (A discomfort, that is to say, a sense of disorder or disharmony, is much harder to bear than a sharp pain, much ...
... dead man and all the dead... without its making any difference. So... what happened? There was one moment when Mother lost the contact with her body, or rather, when THAT lost the contact with Mother's body. Did she not say (on March 10 ), "If I lost the contact—but that's impossible!" Another day in 1971 (on December 4 ), she had said, "Only a violent death could stop the transformation, otherwise ...
... can't say I no longer had hands because there was no "I" anymore. That's how it is, something comes (something from someone: an idea, a force, a movement, an expression), poff! and it becomes this [Mother's body, or her hands in this instance]. And it was very joyful and very sweet: there was a sort of joyful charm, very young. Half an hour before, Page 242 I didn't know I was going to play: ...
... limitlessness in regard to the Force (not only the Consciousness, but the Force), the sense of limitlessness is becoming more and more permanent. The scale of the work in proportion with the form [Mother's body] is very perceptible, and perceptible in a very keen way, but there is the sense of the inanity of this form—not even its relative character: almost its inexistence, something like the sense of ...
... METHODICALLY. I didn't say anything to anyone because it was nobody's business, nobody's concern. I remained standing there and ... ( gesture showing the forces passing from Sri Aurobindo into Mother's body ). You know, people revel in high-sounding words and go on talking and talking—they don't even know what they're talking about. Not very long ago, I saw first of all one or two photographs ...
... attention to herself or to her body by publishing the text of this mantra. × An obligation for Mother's body to be transformed, if "Mira" is used. × Satprem in fact wrote the whole book in three months and ...
... [physical] ego... for a long time one has had the impression that if the ego disappears, the being disappears, the form disappears—but that's not true! It isn't true. In any case, it has become ready [Mother's body] to live without an ego.... The trouble is that life's ordinary laws no longer hold. Which means all the old habit, plus the new thing to be learned. It's as if the cells—not the body's cells: ...
... I could feel the friction of the passage. It was extraordinary—extraordinary! It was an extraordinary experience. It went on for a long, long time like this ( gesture of the Force passing into Mother's body ). I was standing beside his bed, and it passed into me. Almost physical—it was a physical sensation. It lasted a long time. That's all I know. But what I want to understand is at what ...
... of the race and he gladly accepted their retarding perilous load in spite of or perhaps because of his own exceptional gifts and abilities. Apropos a query about some temporary complaint in the Mother's body many years ago, he wrote: "We have not sought perfection for our own separate sake, but as part of a general change creating a possibility of perfection for others. That could not have been done ...
... years happened at last. I wonder when the world will realise that the greatest event in its history took place. Of course the detailed working out of the Supermind upon earth and even in the Mother's body will take long, but the full general presence of it in her is there now and also its general working on ourselves and the world. There is now hope for the weakest amongst us, for the Supermind ...
... 1972 ends on a highly expectant note. The lines quoted from Sri Aurobindo's poem, "A God's Labour", written in 1935-36 give us the definite hope that Sri Aurobindo's dream would be realised: the Mother's body would be transformed into a "raiment of gold and blue". Indeed after Sri Aurobindo had left his body, the work went on apace. A number of sadhaks had the experience of participating in the work ...
... where they come from, still they might come in and then you would take them for your own thoughts and find it more difficult to dismiss them. The year 1934 The Mother's body does not appear to me any longer a physical structure like that of other human beings. It is simply a particularised manifestation of a magnificent light. Is it really so? Or am I simply exaggerating ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5 November I7, I973 THE Mother's body belonged to the old creation. It was meant to be the pedestal of the New Body. It served its purpose well. The New Body will come. This is a test, how far we are faithful to Her , true to Her Consciousness. The revival of the body would ...
... that developed rapidly towards the descent of the supermind on the earth and subsequent developments during which the supermind came to be fixed permanently in the physical consciousness in the Mother's body, which had become so universalized as to represent the body of the human species as a whole. The coming together of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is itself a matter of special significance. ...
... waiting to see the Supramental Realisation and physical Transformation. I cannot disappoint them. It must happen.' For some reason or other Physical Transformation could not be done on the Mother's body. But that does not mean that Her Work has been postponed for the time being, as many, people believe. She is constantly working from above for its fruition and helping those who are open to Her ...
... substance itself. This has to be done as our immediate and urgent business of life. 2 I said that the earth-consciousness was not quite ready yet for the final transformation of the Mother's body, that is to say, the material substance of the body. Therefore it could not accommodate the incoming transforming force, and it broke: in breaking it must have broken through, through the hard, ...
... Worldwide celebration of the birth centenary of Sri Aurobindo. Publication of his complete works in thirty volumes. 1973 — November 17 The Mother's Mahasamadhi. November 20 The Mother's body is placed in a separate chamber immediately above that of Sri Aurobindo. Page 818 ...
... of the future. What you don't know, perhaps, is that these Agendas are not books, are not a teaching, are not even experiences; it is beyond all that, more powerful than all that: it is Mother's body. It is her living Force to transform the world. Without it, there is no Auroville. Without it, there is no new world. It is not a book. It is a powerful radioactive ore. You can read it and ...
... of disorder and darkness, as is the entire earth in the material world, as is the material world in the entire universe." 1 That is why there is an intense, unceasing aspiration in the Mother's body—it is not a mental or vital aspiration imposed upon the body, but the body's own separate, individual, unquenchable aspiration—for a dynamic union with the Supreme through service...."This body ...
... body, had made the Work be. Perhaps much like the first time in the world when a mineral object came in contact with Life—or dissolved enough to allow the first stirring of Life to take place. Mother's body was half-dissolved. The new "something" came in contact with the earth. It entered a terrestrial body.... What entered? We have no words apt for what appertains to another species; Mother said Supreme ...
... in me relaxes, or tenses up; but not "in me" here, like this (Mother in her armchair): in me THERE (Mother in the "other" person). It's becoming more and more like that. The reaction here [in Mother's body] isn't any more intimate than the reaction in others. And it's barely more perceptible: it all depends on the state of attentiveness and concentration of the consciousness. But the consciousness ...
... piercing the crust of appearances for those who know how not to look in the "usual way." An enormous veil of habit eclipses to us the stupendous change. The infiltration of the supramental Power into Mother's body, the little twinkling of iridescent, multicolored light is repeated in the earth's body, as if at each second there were a Vibration of Truth coupled with each vibration of Falsehood and, almost ...
... occurred to us that this human body of the Mother, in whose protection we have been advancing on this difficult path, is in its every atom and in its very external form too, the body of Mother Aditi Herself. Being so close to the Mother we always looked upon the Mother physically as our best friend. But how immeasurably valuable this was, was revealed to us one day by the Mother Herself in the course of... all felt Her, sometimes as Mother Aditi Herself, sometimes as Maheshwari, at other times as Mahakali, Mahalakshmi or as Maha-saraswati. Standing next to a fire, how can our body not be touched by its warmth? And in spite of our untransformed, ignorant condition the Mother’s Grace has so spontaneously blessed us in all Her forms. But we have never known the Mother’s Body or had the experience of it... overflowed with gratitude… I sat in silence for a long time at the spot where the Mother’s couch stands today. How could I have known then that one year later Her Body would be brought down from Her room and kept at this very spot? And that this was to be my last visit to the Mother? Perhaps that was why the Mother had fulfilled that day my long-cherished wish by giving me this photograph of Her Lotus ...
... without our being aware of it: another rhythm in the body’s cells (not in our heads, the head does not understand anything about it⎯but the body understands). There is a rhythm of the mineral, a rhythm of the vegetal, a rhythm of the animal, and there is the other rhythm. That was what was trying to take place in Mother’s body, and through her in the body of the earth. It is like another time that... leave our human skins. Like that, suddenly, we will be there. Perhaps it is when Mother’s last mystery will reveal itself. For there is still a mystery. Mother’s forest is full of mysteries. Only one has to look with one’s body’s eyes. Another Physical Air Slowly, She was joining the two doors in her body. We say “overlife” as if it were settled once and for all, a sort of new fixed... was to accelerate and reach bigger proportions, so much so that it seemed to invade Mother’s body, visibly taking hold of the old bark⎯filling the carbon layer as if to change its substance and content, the vibration that veiled and falsified. A change of time necessarily means a change in the vibration of the body’s consciousness: something that accelerates or slows down. And that is where the experience ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 5 April 1934 Dear Mother, My body is increasing in bulk and volume, my physical consciousness or outward consciousness is growing in Your consciousness. The growth of my body depends upon this external consciousness growing in You. It is all right. I think you can put on a little ...
... suggestions. The body fights all it can to accept only the suggestions from the Divine, but there's still a pull. 90 The sensation of my body is as if I were as big as the world and holding everything in my arms, truly the way a Mother holds her children. I can't explain.... Later. 91 Everything is becoming a discomfort: a perpetual discomfort, as if my body were made to live... hypnotism of the physical Mind. We will never know to what extent the substance (including Mother’s substance) is hypnotized by those “do’s and don’ts.” Mother would struggle until the end, and until the end they would throw their hypnotism at her: Oh! one must take some Coramine for one’s heart, oh! one must…. And the body is like a hypnotized baby. At each instant, She had to undo again and again, undo the... The only merit of our terrible toys is, as it happened in Mother’s body, to force us to find the true solution, the evolutionary solution: to change species or die. This was the whole curve. It was not a question of improving or idealizing the human fishbowl. The old evolutionary laboratory is bringing its work to a conclusion. So did Mother. It is a pity for us if we do not understand the meaning of ...
... absolute way what having the divine consciousness in the body means. And then, this body, that body, that other body [gesture here and there, all around Mother, showing bodies of this or that one] , it doesn’t matter: it moved about from one body to another, quite free and independent, aware of the limitations or the possibilities of each body—absolutely wonderful, I had never, ever had this experience... around oneself and handles, a subtle body starts forming itself: a mental body, a body of consciousness, of energy, one could say, formed of all our agglomerated vibrations and in which one travels. It is the oldest story in the world. It was in this subtle body that Mother met Sri Aurobindo without even knowing him, in Paris in 1903. It was in this subtle body, as I have related it, that I travelled... And a “body” is formed. But with Mother, it is not at all a question of that type of body, nothing to do with a “subtle” body: it is a material body, made by material but conscious cells. Only it is not Matter, or the degree of fossilized Matter that we are familiar with. It is the primary Matter. It is the cells alone that can “understand” that Matter and recognize it. The first time Mother discovered ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 31 January 1965 Gracious Mother, My body and mind are very tired. How can I continue unless I learn to work without exerting myself? Getting the first issue of the World Union journal out of the Press and the next issue in at the same time, as well as trying to keep the... the Book Stock work going smoothly—and at night the group exercises! Mother, can't you teach me how not to exert myself, how to live in the peace of the Lord as you told me on my birthday? The impulse for work must come from within or above, not from the pressure of outer circumstances and wills. If the work of the World Union journal is a strain YOU MUST STOP IT—let somebody else take it ...
... felt that it was this body of the Mother that would take on that new form. But Satprem understood at once with his sharp intelligence and asked the Mother: “Hasn’t this new form entered your subtle body already?” The Mother changed the topic and started speaking about something else. If this is not the sweet maya of the Mother then what is? In Notes on the Way , the Mother has given such detailed... utterance of the Mother. Before our eyes emerged the picture of an extraordinarily young and beautiful woman. We were firmly convinced that the Mother’s body would indeed be transformed when She was a hundred. Her body would be integrally transformed with the light of the Supermind. Our hearts filled up with an unearthly joy at that thought. On seeing our reaction the Mother once again broke... Many years ago, I once went to the Mother for some work. After telling me various things the Mother suddenly remarked: “‘I am going to leave this body.’ “I just stood there in stunned disbelief. I had never imagined that I would hear this. “‘I shall give up this body, no doubt, but I shall return. And you will be able to recognise me because my new body will look exactly like the present one ...
... Part One: The Cell Without Code Mother or The Mutation Of Death - III 2: A Body Without Memory On August 22, 1968, I received a small note from Mother. I had not seen her since August, 10. Her heart gave out, her pulse was “more than erratic.” All the same, She appeared on her balcony upstairs, as on the poop of a big ship, on August 15, for Sri Aurobindo’s... what it is at first, so insignificant it is. Was the small protozoan so significant in its pond? The body, the cells of the body would like to make contact with the true being, without having to go through the vital or even through the mind. That is what is taking place. And suddenly Mother remembered: Ah! I noticed that the cells, everywhere, all the time, were repeating the mantra, OM NAMO... this vibratory mode changes, the whole organization of Matter must change. This was the phenomenon that occurred in Mother’s body. Cells that spontaneously repeat the mantra. A new Mind in Matter or of Matter, like a new force of propulsion and the agent of a new type of body upon earth, which will not necessarily be coagulated in the old way. It is not a new way of thinking that is taking ...
... Kireet Joshi writes in his book Sri Aurobindo and the Mother : ‘When Sri Aurobindo left his body, the accumulated result of all his physical consciousness was transmitted to Mother’s body, and thus there was no waste. But now, apart from Mother’s body, there was no other body which was so developed that it could receive, if Mother left her body, the accumulated result of her physical consciousness... the departure of the Mother, Nolini already had had a message posted: ‘The Mother’s body belonged to the old creation. It was meant to be the pedestal of the New Body. It served its purpose well. The New Body will come. This is a test, how far we are faithful to Her, true to Her consciousness. The revival of the body would have meant revival of the old troubles in the body. The body troubles were eliminated... originated in the body of the caterpillar, from the body of the caterpillar. The body of the butterfly is an (invisible and scientifically inexplicable) transformation of the body of the caterpillar. The caterpillar exists in the dimension of the crawling-world of the caterpillars; the butterfly exists in the dimension of the flying-world of the butterflies. The human body of the Mother existed in the ...
... Illusion⎯but instead of being destroyed in one’s consciousness up above, while the body continues to suffer below, it is destroyed in the body . It is in the body that there is an illusion to destroy. Never, never in this body’s whole, entire existence, has it felt such a total and profound sorrow as on that day, said Mother. Oh, something that made it ... You know, separation, then wickedness, cruelty... understand, they are still in this kind of illusion of death because this [the body] disappears; and even this [Mother’s body] no longer quite knows which of the two is true! For it, the truth should be Matter—well, even about that, it isn’t quite sure what that is! There is the other way of being. And the body is beginning to wonder ... It knows that the old way is no longer that, but it’s beginning to... two levels, a paradoxical duality: This body’s life is a miracle, She said in April, 70, after a series of heart attacks. Which means that if it weren’t what it is and the way it is, anyone else would be dead. But then, if you knew how it becomes strange. The body is conscious, it says, “After all, it would make a difference mainly for others! [if Mother “died”] For me. ” Only, you understand ...
... sides are ONE. When the other body and the body of the earth are ONE. What is the mystery that separates the two? It was perhaps this mystery that was being “elaborated” in Mother’s body? We can’t both remain upon earth, one must go, Sri Aurobindo had said to Mother. And Mother had answered him, “I am ready, I’ll go.” Then he answered me, “No, you can’t go, your body is better than mine, you can... But there will remain a body to bury. All is there. A body that ages, shrivels, dies. The very symbol of Falsehood lies there. Mother observed this new body that was more and more perceptible and that death pressing more and more in her old body. What was going to happen? The FACT must change, she was to say ultimately. Can it change? And it was as if Mother were on two simultaneous... have the complete key. Only the body can know. Slowly, Mother’s body was veering into a third time. Transformation or Change of Perspective? It was a sort of living contradiction, as if Mother found herself not in front of, but on two totally different paths. Our heads can very well follow contradictory ideas and live their chaos as best as they can, but a body, how can it have one foot here ...
... his own body had progressed was demonstrated by the transmission of the supramental force it contained into the Mother’s body each time she came into the presence of Sri Aurobindo’s body after his ‘death’, and also by the ‘miraculous’ conservation of his body in a climate conducive to disintegration. The supramental transformation of the mind of the body cells, of the matter of which the body consists... corporeal absence meant an enormous blow to the Mother, ‘a sledgehammer blow,’ as she said afterwards, ‘an annihilation’. ‘The very idea that Sri Aurobindo might leave his body, that that particular way of being might no longer exist for the body, was absolutely unthinkable. They had to put him in a box and put the box in the Samadhi 91 for the body to be convinced that it had really happened … Nothing... out into a broadening delta of increasing supramental Force in the earth-atmosphere, and that finally would flow into the ocean of the supramental Presence in the living mother-body of our symbolical planet. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, being the double-poled supramental Avatar, have ‘seen’ this river and its destination from the beginning of their integral yoga; they have all along had a profound knowledge ...
... unblocked⎯oh, how one could breathe with Mother. She was far beyond all myths. Only it cannot be done in three days, can it? (the Heavenly Father, after all, needed at least seven days), and since we cannot see the instantaneous miracle that is right in front of us, we do not believe in it⎯but the miracle IS DONE. The body is learning its lesson—all bodies, all bodies. It’s the change of authority.... It’s... the genetic code. An open, fluid world, where everything is possible. Another little golden vibration is being spun in bodies, as imperturbably, quietly and irresistibly as our old cancers, which were only cancers of the Mind. Ever since that day of 1968 when Mother’s body was left to itself, cut off from its memories, its Mind, its old forces, the Mind of the cells grasped the last thing it could... the secret of the next body. A new Matter born of a new vibration. Or perhaps of an eternal Vibration. It remains to be seen whether the old body can bear the change of vibration without dying from it⎯transform itself without paying for it with its life. A dangerous unknown. × Mother’s Agenda VI, 24.7.65 ...
... Heaven, the Father—Mind or Soul—and of Earth the Mother—Body or material Nature; sometimes he is the flame born from these two tinders; sometimes Heaven and Earth are called his two mothers, when the figure is more explicitly symbolic of the pure mental and psychical and the physical consciousness. He is also hymned as the child of the seven Mothers—for his complete birth is a result of the manifestation... sessions and drink the wine of the infinite beatitude. It is true that here the light is concealed. Agni, like other gods, figures here as a child of the universal parents, Heaven and Earth, Mind and Body, Soul and material Nature. This earth holds him concealed in her own materiality and does not release him for the conscious works of the Father. She hides him in all her growths, her plants, herbs,... they descend full of the light and the heavenly abundance, instinct with the clarity and the sweetness, the sweet milk and the butter and the honey. Agni's birth here from these fostering Cows, these Mothers of Plenty, is the greatest of his terrestrial births; fostered by them as the swift Mares of Life he grows at once to his divine greatness, fills all the planes with his vast and shining limbs and ...
... Ashram. The Mother had made us forget Sri Aurobindo’s most painful absence by her all-encompassing divine love and solicitude. But who is there to console us now? Who shall guide and protect us? We have to seek for that consolation within our hearts. As Nolini says, "The Mother’s physical body was our protection; we did not suffer the full consequences of our Karma because her body acted as a... incessantly towards the final consummation of its material embodiment. "What is expected of us is to see this golden Mother within us and try to become as she always wanted, her golden children, within and without." Thus, though she has left her physical body, we have Still her golden body. Not that alone, even materially she has seen to it that we do not suffer from indigence in her absence. Our material... religious? The Mother herself said in her "Reminiscences", "I came to India to meet Sri Aurobindo. I remained in India to live with Sri Aurobindo. When he left his body I continued to live here in order to do his work which is, by serving the Truth and enlightening mankind, to hasten the rule of the Divine’s Love upon earth." And it was at the express command of Sri Aurobindo when he left his body that she ...
... remains like that.’ 33 In 1970, the Mother’s body was bent at the neck and shoulders; yet, at the end of February of that year she said that during the night she found herself in a completely normal body. ‘Is this body replaced by another one?’ Then on 9 May 1970, the Mother had an experience in which she saw her new body. ‘Well, I have seen it, my body – how it will be. It’s quite good.’ The form... Alone The Mother (biography) 18: The New Body It’s always like this, the same answer: a yes, you see. All is well, all is well, all is well – just like it has to be, as soon as one is in it. All is well, just like it has to be. That’s how it is, all the time. 1 – The Mother Meanwhile the transformation process in the Mother’s body, which... express this change, to what extent her body could be transformed. As early as January 1961 the Mother had mentioned the presence in her physical body of another body that was ‘bigger, more voluminous’ – we are reminded of Rijuta’s psychic being which exceeded the boundaries of her physical body – and that had ‘such a compact power that it was almost annoying.’ A year later, after her ‘death’ and ‘ ...
... etc.], in France and in Japan. ( Mother goes into a contemplation ) But, Mother, what I'd like to understand, it's that since you withdrew to this room [in 1962] for the body's transformation, you've never mentioned the role of the chakras, while in the Supramental Manifestation, Sri Aurobindo seems to attach to them a decisive importance in the body's transformation. He frequently refers to... gesture to the heart and above the head ), it's so natural that I don't even observe it anymore: it's my way of being. But the consciousness isn't centered in the body, and the body is felt... almost like a transmitting pipe! Mother, one last thing, a question asked by the person who wrote the letter: he. asks whether the "vast Grace-Light" or "Truth-Light" the Swami mentions is the supramental... July July Mother’s Agenda 1970 July 11, 1970 Someone sent me a letter on the body's transformation, if you are interested. Page 254 Let's see.... It seems that a Tamil yogi [Swami Ramalingam] of this region, who lived around 1850, had experiences, which he described in a poem and appear rather connected ...
... prayer Let us work as we pray, for indeed work is the body's best prayer to the Divine. The Mother Praying with the body To work for the Divine is to pray with the body. The Mother Progress through work One can progress through meditation, but through work provided it is done in the right... The Mother Work as offering Consciousness develops best through work done as an offering to the Divine. The Mother Page 2 Work is yoga I make no difference between work and yoga. Work itself is yoga if it is done in a spirit of dedication and surrender. The Mother The body's best prayer... with all three or two or one. Sri Aurobindo Page 6 Physical work A physical work is as indispensable to the balance of the body as food. The Mother Yoga in action The object of the sadhana is opening of the consciousness to the Divine and the change of the nature. Meditation or contemplation is one means to this ...
... widening, universalization and impersonalization that Mother’s body had to undergo⎯but it still needs something that catches it, if we may say so, some kind of turbine or condenser, a fixative element that prevents it from slipping away like a breeze. What on earth in those cells can “condense,” “fix” the Power? It was the very first question Mother asked herself in 1958. But in 1965, a double discovery... transmutes the old skin. But the key had been found. It is the key to getting through the second web, the one that binds us to a mammal body, as it binds others to an aquatic or a reptilian body. We wonder how we poor humans can go through that Wall, when Mother and Sri Aurobindo had to display so much heroism and tenacity to carry out the operation, but the way is open. Now we know where the key... , after living the countless experiences that others would have regarded as a summit), this simple, so simple and fragile a thing which stammered in her body, this mantra that repeated itself on its own, was the real knot of the battle that Mother had been fighting since 1958: ten years. Not that the Mind of the cells had not tried, many times, to supplant the physical Mind, but each time it was as ...
... Invasion Now, Mother took years to understand that this small, strange scintillation that She saw in everything, “associated with everything,” even with her eyes open, was the process of infiltration, or of “permeation” as She would later say, of the true physical or true Matter into her body and into the whole body of the earth—it was not particular to her body, even though her body, and Sri Aurobindo’s... for the transformation. 124 And as I was rather perplexed, Mother added: You can’t grasp what I mean by the word “relation” unless you take it scientifically. Your body, and my body, this table, this carpet, are all made up of atoms; and these atoms are constituted of “something” that is the SAME. The differences we see—different bodies, different forms—are due to the movements or the interrelations... leading and as of 1961 Mother had observed “that small scintillation of vibrations that seems indispensable to be able to enter that Matter,” as if that could not pass purely through, obviously, without setting everything aflame. A small multi- coloured scintillation that seemed to be the first “adaptation” of the supramental substance for it to be able to infiltrate into the body. She had seen this some ...
... to offer to the Mother on that day. She had completed them all. They illustrated her favourite theme: the journey of the soul out of the Mother's Heart, the plunge into the abyss and, through the divine alchemy in all the worlds, the Return and the Crown. She too was returning from her long journey. On the morning of the 18th, her birthday, at the time fixed by the Mother, her body was taken to the... the life in Poland under the communist regime. She could not possibly go back. It was then that she made her decisive choice and with the consent of the Mother embarked for India, arriving in Pondicherry on the 17th of December 1957. The Mother put her in charge of a nursing home for surgical cases. As she was not a trained nurse, the technical side of nursing was generally performed by others,... of soviet communism. In November 1956, thanks to a change of government in Poland, she obtained a passport for Germany where her friend now lived. There she was welcomed once more and nursed both in body and soul. It was in some way an apprenticeship of freedom, a kind of re-education. Janina had to learn to breathe and move and think as a free being in a free country. Living in a different atmosphere ...
... mind that the Mother in the body was also the Great Mother, the eternal divine Creatrix of the worlds. What could be seen of her with physical eyes – and many saw nothing more – was only an outer shell. Once, when a question was put to Sri Aurobindo concerning the Prayers and Meditations, he wrote: ‘It is the Mother in the lower nature addressing the Mother in the higher nature, the Mother herself carrying... difficult? What Would the Supramental Body be Like? What would the supramental body be like? It would be something like the body humanity has dreamt of through the ages and has ascribed to angels and gods – and more, for it would be a divinized body, fount and instrument of an everlasting ecstasy of which our humanity has no notion. In one of her talks the Mother took the children with her on a fantasy... Lord wants will be done. Whatever he wills, he will do with this body, which is a poor thing.’ Afterwards, when the transcript of this talk was read to the Mother, she commented: ‘The fight is within the body. This can’t go on. They must be defeated or this body is defeated. All depends on what the Lord will decide. It [i.e .the body] is the battlefield. How far it can resist, I don’t know. After ...
... child's call to the Mother and the Mother always responds-with her Light and Life and Love. You have been told, and I have also often told you, that although the Mother's physical body is not there, she has left her consciousness with us: the consciousness is still living, it is still working. She herself said even while she was in her body that if ever she left her body, her consciousness will... which is so beautiful as I say, filled with the fragrance of the Mother's Presence. It is a collective life in which you all are not only brothers and sisters but one body and soul unified in the Mother's loving and living substance. Page 107 That inner life you have to bring out into your body and all the external activities. It is however the very nature of... not destined to remain sinners always. However, that atmosphere, the inner atmosphere still exists here. With the Mother's withdrawal of physical body that too might have withdrawn a little perhaps, a little only, just a few inches perhaps! But it is still there, for the Mother is there as concrete as before although not as material .. As I said, there are some who have passed away from here and ...
... difficult moments. There're too many, too many things, they can't be said. ( Mother seems to speak from far away ) There is clearly a work of change of consciousness ( Mother touches her body ), and it's going very, very fast, so I don't remember the transitions, the passages.... It's the sense of the body's ego that has gone away, with a very strange result.... While the experience is there... Presence, but if for any reason the way of being of people and things imposes itself [on Mother], the body feels odd, the effect is odd. 1 I am still right in the middle of a transitional state. Can you hear me? Yes, yes! Right in the middle of a transitional state. ( silence ) ( Mother looks at the clock ) I think there are some impossible hours! That's it, I am literally... done. It's odd... ( Mother laughs ). Page 78 × This undated handwritten note of Mother, found later, puts the problem in clear terms: "When, through those around me, the outer world tries to impose its will on the rhythm of inner life, the result is a disequilibrium which the body does not always have the ...
... child's call to the Mother and the Mother always responds—with her Light and Life and Love. You have been told, and I have also often told you, that although the Mother's physical body is not here, she has left her consciousness with us: her consciousness is still living, it is still working. She herself said, even while she was in her body, that if ever she left her body, her consciousness would... collective inner life, which is so beautiful as I say, filled with the fragrance of the Mother's Presence. It is a collective life in which you all are not only brothers and sisters but one body and soul unified in the Mother's loving and living substance. That inner life you have to bring out in your body and all the external activities. It is the very nature of that inner organisation to express... destined to remain sinners always. However, that atmosphere, the inner atmosphere, still exists here. With the Mother's withdrawal of the physical body, that too might have withdrawn a little perhaps, a little only, just a few inches perhaps! But it is still here, for the Mother is here as concretly as before although not as materially. As I said, there are some who have passed away from here ...
... change of movement without dissolving? Mother did not know. She felt that movement of fusion, but…. I have the most peculiar feeling that there's a kind of ... like scales, or tree bark, or turtle shell, melting. What seems like Matter to man is like something shrivelled up which has to fall away because it is unreceptive. And in this body (Mother touched her own body) , it is trying ... it is trying to... go through rapidly so as to reach the body, a GREAT passivity is needed, She noted . I can see that: every time there is a pressure so as to act on some part of the body or other, it always begins with an absolute passivity, which is ... the “perfection of Inertia,” do you understand? What Inertia imperfectly represents—it’s the perfection of that. And Mother looked at me out of the corner of her... out to Mother that, in the highest states I knew, there was an intense aspiration, even in the body, and that it was the exact opposite of an immobility. It was an active aspiration. So? “What must one do, I asked, has one to let everything go slack or persist in that active aspiration?” It’s hard to say, She replied, because I am convinced that everyone has his own path, but for this body, the path ...
... today. The Mother of Bliss is Herself present in our midst. Doubts, despair, sorrows, death—nothing can impede our march ahead. Each new day is a declaration of war against these forces. Thanks to the Mother’s unearthly Grace we have overcome so many of these obstacles and difficulties. The Mother always used to mitigate the punishment that we merited for our conduct. The Mother’s Body was our protective... that Nolini-da had. This vision is a clear proof that the Mother, though She did leave Her body, hasn’t left us. In times of pain and difficulty She continues to protect us as always. And therefore ‘Do not fear’: The Mother says, “Look at me, I am here, come back in my new body, divine, transformed and glorious. And I am the same Mother, still human. Do not worry. Do not be concerned about your... sun at the time of his birth, the divine Mother Herself, Aditi, was our shield. And this shield will protect us forever. It will protect us now from the attacks of the subtle world. * After the Mother’s physical withdrawal Nolini-da wrote: So long her physical body was our protection; we did not suffer the full consequences of our Karma because her body acted as a buffer: it broke the force of ...
... there had been any visible or undoubted improvement, yet today Dr. Manilal told the Mother that he was amazed by the improvement, he had not thought such a thing possible, but now he knew because he had seen it.) The other reason is that sadhaks ought not to need an intermediary between themselves and the Mother—their bodies as well as their minds ought by this time to have become sufficiently receptive... 1 May 1929 I don't feel Mother's Grace as before. Sometimes I get suggestions of going from here; I also get suggestions that I am not fit for Mother's service and for yoga. What is all this nonsense? The grace of the Mother does not withdraw; open yourself and you will feel it. 1.5.1929 Sri Aurobindo Since one month Kamala is telling me, “Mother is not putting her hand on my... crying in sorrow. When I asked her to write to Mother, she said, “When I write to Mother, she smiles for a few days and then it is the same. I do not want that she smiles only when I write to her; if she smiles of her own I feel more joy.” If for some reason Mother is displeased with Kamala, please, let us know. There is absolutely no reason why Mother should be displeased with Kamala. She is not ...
... that the Mother could leave Sri Aurobindo at this critical moment.” Yet, the Mother’s clarification is quite different: “As long as I was in the room he could not leave his body. I used all my power to prevent him from departing. So there was a terrible tension in him: the inner will to leave and then this kind of thing [ i.e. the Mother] that was holding him there, like that, in his body – because... saw the matter from the other side. And he knew that I had the power to leave my body at will. So he didn’t say a thing – he didn’t say a thing right to the very last minute.” 6 Later the Mother would concede: “It is absolutely undeniable that my body has that capacity [of endurance] infinitely more than the body of Sri Aurobindo.” This reminds us of her former saying that she had consciously... without regret and without difficulty that I would leave my body to go and join him … And he answered: ‘Your body is indispensable for the Work. Without your body the Work cannot be done.’ This is something that was said in 1949, which means a little more than a year before he left.” 7 Then there is the amazing avowal of the Mother that she does not seem to have known that Sri Aurobindo, step ...
... caterpillar’s very body. It was not another species that saw, not a higher vision of Mother: it was the body that saw, the body’s cells that saw, the very material consciousness that saw Matter and saw it in a different way, lived it in a different way. It was not outside of Matter, another type of Matter: it was Matter itself. For, one day, Mother made this very revealing remark: For the body consciousness... “representative” body may vanish in front of something far more serious, profound and ineradicable that was being built for the world, silently, painfully, behind the little cries of that body imprisoned in the black misery of the world. It is the mystery to resolve. Mother’s “unknown.” And there, we have nothing but our heart to grope our way through the ultimate redoubt of Mother’s forest…. There... in abnormal states, because they are hidden to us by the whole mental superstructure. It is the cellular level, the one at which Mother lived, from which She saw the material world differently and which made her body live according to laws that were miraculous for a body assailed by age, heart attacks and the rush of the world. “As if the physical became double”: the old physical of the mental world ...
... surrounded the Mother and was bowing down to Her. We waited quietly. Bathed in that cascading light the beauty of the Mother’s pure white body was incomparable. All of us, young, old and adults, sat mesmerised by the Mother’s face. The Mother turned the pages of the book. Just the sound of shuffling paper. That is all. The creatures of the world were impatient to hear the Mother’s voice, so soft... sight! The Divine Mother herself teaching Her human children! The gods too had never had Darshan of the Mother in a human body. That is why they would come down to be close to Her. I have also heard that in the evening when the Mother came downstairs to give us flower-blessings in the Ashram, the gods would gather in the Meditation Hall. The Divine Mother Herself had taken on a human body in order to descend... the sea breeze caressed our bodies. It was a godly hour. The gentle breeze spread a sweet subtle fragrance from the Mother’s body. That very familiar fragrance again! Whenever we went to the Mother we returned with Her fragrance on us brought to us by Her loving touch. And this sweet fragrance would remain with us for the whole day at home. We always felt that the Mother was there with us. What a ...
... in his trilogy about the Mother: ‘Mother has never known. This seems unbelievable, but it is true,’ 11 and also: ‘Mother herself did not know what she was doing.’ 12 This is an opinion which at least should be qualified: the Mother as body in transformation did not know what was awaiting her the next moment or at the end of her adventure, the consciousness of her body did not know that; but her... ‘I’ as used by the Mother in later years. It is therefore essential to take this into account when reading her conversations so that one does not commit the error of identifying the Mother with the instrument which was her body — a body of which she soon will say that it is not even her own. The Mother giving Darshan from her balcony, late 1960s The Pillars of the Mother’s Yoga For this... always her body that did not know, the not yet transformed consciousness of the cells of her body, because such knowledge would have influenced its attitude and yogic striving. And this is the second point we should keep in mind: the body of the Mother was something quite different from what was ‘naturally’ visible. In their interpretations of the sadhana and the passing away of the Mother, the co ...
... purification of your consciousness. When Mother was in her body, she used to say: "This elementary Tapasya you need not go through; with the support of my body, you can simply take a leap and rise above." Mother offered us her body as a springboard so that we might leap up. But we did not take the benefit of it; we simply went on jumping on it. Mother received only blows, and we reached nowhere... the bottom. It is the utmost physical consciousness; in the absence of Mother's physical body we have plunged straight into the bog, into the mire of crude physical existence. So we have to start the work of purification from that level, from the consciousness identified with the body; we must try to do the cleansing of the body and the vital. Mind? Oh, mind too, the higher levels of mind, the mental... to accomplish this work Sri Aurobindo and the Mother came down on earth in human form, as a bridge between the two hemispheres. They represented in their human moulds not only humanity—all the elements of human consciousness-— Page 60 but also all that was represented in a human form, the entire terrestrial nature. They held their bodies as vessels to receive, on behalf of earth and ...
... silence ) And how are things for you? ...What shall I say? Physically it is still difficult, but the body has understood, I think ( Mother opens her hands ). The body has understood, but there are still some old habits, some semiconscious reactions. That's what pulls. To me, you see, if the body had truly understood, it should become younger—not "younger" but conscious. Instead of founding its base... there; yes, I went that side [with inner eyes]. Yes, Mother! The body is more conscious—the consciousness is penetrating. But.... I have a strong feeling (I mean the body), the body has a strong feeling that if I can last until one hundred it will become younger. Not younger, but... more capable of manifesting the Force. I don't feel weak, but some things still drag. The subconscient... offered ), from the subconscient. And all the work that is being done is not just for this body; the body is doing it for all those who are receptive. In which case I have nothing to say, everything is perfectly all right. If such is the case.... Because ( Mother turns her head toward the bathroom door ) the body lives in particularly good conditions. It is very well taken care of. ( silence ) How ...
... co-operation of the body. I prayed to the body to co-operate and in response joy, peace and power filled up every cell of my body. I approached members of my family early morning and told them that since the Mother had arranged for their bread and other necessities of life, I should not endeavour to earn their bread and they had to be satisfied with whatever was given by the Divine Mother. I arranged and... touch of the Divine Mother. I remained in contact with these two semi-liquid forms till the Memorable Day of the Mother's withdrawal. Then I could see that the second form which I could not recognize during an earlier experience was that of the Mother. It was the same form which was present by her body which was kept for Darshan. I bowed to that holy sheath of the Divine Mother. ... to be offered to the Divine Mother. I experienced sound sleep after taking this decision and after pondering over the ways of surrender to the Mother. I was awakened at 4-30 a.m. by the idea of praying to my body which was 67 years old and by which I was to carry out the arduous programme of going from village to village for the dedication pilgrimage. I prayed to the body in a concentrated mood that ...
... solution, the problem of material alimentation is only half resolved. For there still remains the 1 Words of the Mother, p. 205. Page 305 question of the substantial stuff of the body. How can our material body maintain its integrity if there is no absorption of a regular supply of material aliments from outside? Let us seek for an answer to this crucial question. ... Earth, p. 52) "Do you think I get all this energy from my frugal meals? Of course not, one can draw infinite energy from the universe when needed!" 1 (The Mother) The body is the vehicle, vāhana, of the Spirit; it is the indispensable means and instrument for the latter's self-manifestation in this world of evolutionary becoming. But this Becoming is in... of energy . And this energy-need will always be there if the body has to serve as the effective instrument for the Spirit's dynamic self-unfolding in the universe. The whole question then turns round 1 2 The Life Divine, p. 78. 3 The Mother, Bulletin, Vol. IX, No. 2, p. 93. Page 300 the nature of the energy in demand and the nature of its possible sources ...
... physical Mother’ whom we would call Mother Nature, and who accepted the formation of the new body with a symbolic gesture. ‘This means that material Nature has accepted the new creation.’ 24 March 1972. ‘For the first time, early in the morning, I have seen myself, my body. I do not know whether it is the supramental body or — how to say — a transitional body. But I had a completely new body, in... ’ 28 February 1970: ‘My body is now bent materially, but during the night it was completely normal again! And I do not sleep! What may this be? I don’t know … And I do not leave my body … Or is this body replaced by another one? I do not know.’ On 9 May 1970 the Mother had an experience in which she saw her new body. ‘Well, I have seen it, my body — how it will be. It is quite good... the Mother answered. Satprem again: ‘But how will that come down into the physical?’ ‘That is what I do not know,’ the Mother answered. ‘It was also evident that there was no longer a complicated digestive system like now nor the elimination as it is now … But how will the [physical] body itself change? I don’t know.’ Considering all this, it is evident that the Mother had a supramental body in the ...
... May May Mother’s Agenda 1968 May 22, 1968 Mother holds out the text of a note: "Through the widening of its consciousness, this body is more or less identified with those around it. "Every effort made towards the purification of one's physical consciousness is so much less work for this body." If everyone... Bernini's Baldaquin, inside St. Peter's Basilica, and finally comes up to the Pope's throne, in which he sits down.... ( Mother laughs ) "On his head sits the same person as before: Sweet Mother? Pavitra? Satprem? A teacher? I do not know. I cannot make out the person's body, only his changing face.... All of a sudden, the multitude, the huge crowd there receives a tremendous vibration: everything... happened just now and you know R.), the body isn't even aware of being used as an intermediary, because it's too conscious of its infirmity, of what it should be and isn't yet.... It's like that cure [of the swelling of Mother's face], it was a cure like R.'s, Page 143 almost spontaneous: it happened all of a sudden and went away. But of course, the body is perfectly conscious of the splendor ...
... ng.’ Even in her worst suffering the Mother will find everything interesting. Her body had been depersonalized. During the crisis, or rather the victorious realization in the night of 12-13 April 1962, she had left it and taken it up again; but from then onwards she will say that it is not her body any more but a body, although it was the most advanced body in existence for the Work to be done... at the moment, from the physical body to the being in the physical body, to the Mother in the sadhana, to the Universal Mother in any of her aspects or emanations, to the very Supreme identified with ‘the Lord.’ × And the psychic being, but, strange to say, the Mother will become conscious of this important... Did the Mother die and come alive again in the night of 12-13 April 1962? There can be no other interpretation of the following words: ‘This reminds me of the fundamental experience I had when I was … when I lived that pulsation of Love, and when it was decided that I had to take up my body again, that I return into my body.’ 5 In later years she would say several times that the body with which ...
... – The Mother The transitional beings are always in an unstable equilibrium. 2 – The Mother We have now returned to the point where we started in the previous chapter: May 1958, when the Mother reminisced about the moment Sri Aurobindo left his body and transferred to her all the supramental power gathered in it. This was when she said to her already badly battered body (for the... 36 The Mother would continue her sometimes ecstatic, often gruesome, but always glorious Yoga of the body till the end on 17 November 1973, at the time of writing twenty-seven years ago. Gradually the prototype of the supramental body took shape in her in a series of extraordinary experiences. She saw her new body in May 1970, and ce n’était pas surhumain, it was not a body of the overman... the supramentalisation of the body; she started building the first supramental body, the archetype of the future supramental species, within her gross material body. The Mother had realised the possibility for overman, the transitional being, to exist physically on the earth: she had, as it were, created by the partial transformation of her own adhara the mould for the overman to appear as an ...
... withdrawing.’ And Sanyal writes: ‘A strange phenomenon — a body which for the moment is in agony, unresponsive, labouring hard for breath, suddenly becomes quiet; a consciousness enters the body, he is awake and normal. He finishes the drink, then, as the consciousness withdraws, the body lapses back into the grip of agony.’ At midnight the Mother came again into the room. ‘This time he opened his eyes... prophetic look.’ The Mother named ‘ Power’ one of the photographs of Sri Aurobindo taken by an Ashram photographer on his deathbed. ‘There was no odour of death and little incense was burning. To my astonishment the repeated viewings of his body had a comforting effect. Previously I had always resented the idea of viewing dead bodies.’ 19 The legal maximum time for a body to remain unburied in... fully knowledgeable of the ordeal the supramental physical transformation would mean for a body and that he had unmistakably seen that the Mother’s body was better able than his to undergo that transformation — ‘unmistakably’ because otherwise he surely would have taken on the ordeal himself. In later years the Mother would wholeheartedly agree with the correctness of his decision. Secondly, he must ...
... transformed, an enterprise nobody had dared to undertake up to then. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother took this gigantic step because they had come to take it. A new phase of evolution began in which the Unity-Consciousness would be established in their body, therefore in the body of humanity, therefore in the mother-body of the Earth, and therefore in the evolutionary cosmos of which the Earth is the symbolical... Aurobindo and the Mother sometime in 1927. Matter is the first-born of the Inconscient and Subconscient and completely impregnated by them, also in the human body. As a result of which the transformation of this body, in other words the heightening of its consciousness and its eventual divinization, were held by one and all to be unachievable. For to transform and immortalize the material body — an indispensable... existing group was formally called Sri Aurobindo Ashram, and how Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were doing their yoga of divine transformation in this more and more expanding and representative body they called the ‘laboratory’. This draws our attention to that highly intimate collaboration between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, which was often not sufficiently realized or forgotten because of what we might ...
... cellular body which seemed to be Mother’s first problem, the body that was to “become the being,” that is, in a way, replace or relieve the old body? Did it mean that Mother was about to get rid of the rag?… But it was not true at all! Mother had said and repeated time and time again: Death is not a solution! NOT AT ALL. There is no solution except ... except if ... [Mother touched her body, indicating... frightening Pressure—which compels the necessary progress. I feel it in myself, on my body. Really, it was everyone’s body. But my body isn't afraid; it says, “Well, if I must be finished, I'll be finished.” That's how it is at every instant: the True Thing [Mother lowered her fist] or the end. 17 In Mother, there was such an extraordinary mixture of peace, so impassive and vast, beyond everything... used for the purpose we now use our bodies What will change a great deal, of course—it had acquired a prominent role—is breathing. That being depended much on it. 4 And I told Mother: “Several times, I felt that rather than a transformation, there would be a concretization of the other body?”⎯ Ah! But how? “Yes, we don’t know the passage. But instead of this body becoming the other, it would be the ...
... Now we hear that the Mother left her body and took it up again in 1962! But it is recorded in the written documents, for instance in the following statements of the Mother, a few selected out of many, put in chronological order. ‘… when I was that Pulsation of Love [in the night of 12 April 1962] and it was decided that I take up my body again, that I return into my body …’ (7 August 1963) ... than they thought. The Mother had left her body on the night of 12 April 1962, which in ordinary parlance means that she had died. There is no doubt about it. Which means that she had resurrected, for everybody has seen her alive till 1973. We have encountered a lot of extraordinary facts in this story: how the god Krishna took Sri Aurobindo’s body as his own; how the Mother twice renounced the occasion... means, and this causes the Work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to be misunderstood so often. Most people looked forward rather naively to the transformation of the body. According to their expectations Sri Aurobindo, and after his passing the Mother and the disciples, should suddenly have started radiating like a Sun! Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have written and spoken volumes to explain the conditions ...
... all Time - indivisibly, The most beloved Being, the body of the ever-veiled Mystery, The compassionate Mother restores sight to my born-blind soul. My soul, a white candle bums on the altar without walls, Unafraid, needing no protection from the wind and the waves, For all is changed. There is only the Great Mother, the Divine Soul, Immeasurable pulsation of Love filling... The hero worshippers dance and slash and hew a straight path Through the demon hordes which deny the Will of the One. Ave Maria sends the soul soaring to the embrace of the Mother Divine. Bodies possessed by the divinities of beauty and harmony and the Soma wine Dance intoxicated as in a trance and oblige the psychic buds to blossom by their charm. The soul repeats the mantra;... bodiless limitless wonder. Who can tell me where the dream stops and the waking begins? Who can separate the true from the false? Heartbeat of my heartbeat, life of my life, body of my body, Yet a greater stranger than Thee, I shall never meet. Each time I try to pull Thee in, 0 Denizen of the deep, Thou remainest as ever unseen, Tantalizing, beckoning the soul to an i ...
... I am gone, until I return.” This “tending” to Mother is the essential process: this Body of Mother’s is not only shut up in a tomb, it is not a body shut up in a bag of skin and bones — these vibrating, living, universal cells that keep repeating the Mantra on and on are also or can also be in our own body and in everyone’s body, or in the body of all those who accept and cultivate the new... running away. All this is a horrible Falsehood, including Mother’s “dead” body. 8.20 a.m. — Mother is lowered into the Samadhi. Sujata, from the corridor upstairs, at the very place where Mother stood 23 years before, as they buried Sri Aurobindo, sees Mother’s face appear on the temporary lid of the Samadhi, a very young and smiling Mother, with a round face. November 22, 1973 Kumud’s speech:... 14, 1973 Around midnight, Mother asks to walk, “Otherwise, I will become paralyzed.” November 16, 1973 Mother to Pranab: “I want to walk.” November 17, 1973 Mother’s departure. After Mother’s Departure 1973 Isis seated on a sarcophagus November 18, 1973 I have hardly sat down in front of this body... when Nolini 17 sends ...
... Sudhir’s excited voice. “Nolini, go and tell the Mother that I am not going to Delhi. No, on no account. Does the Mother want me to go there and die? I don’t need any operation. If I must die, I will do it here in the Ashram. No where else am I going to die. I don’t want them to cut open my body.” Later I heard, that when Nolini-da, told this to the Mother, She replied, “Why does Sudhir think of death... One night during dinner, Lele-ji said to Barin, Ullas and others, “If you continue with your bombs and pistols before realising the Mother Bhavani, you will hasten your own downfall”. Barin answered, “When we see vultures sucking blood out of our Mother’s body, how can we sit down to meditate?” (S) 1908 – Alipore Jail Co-prisoner with Sri Aurobindo In practice I have seen very few... subjugation. All his life he would pursue this work with steadfast diligence. Then came the turning point when in 1905, Bengal was divided by the rulers. This blow struck off, as it were, the Mother’s limbs from Her body and left Her maimed. In the unrest that followed it seemed that a new nation was struggling to break forth from the turmoil and rising to challenge the mighty authority of the British Raj ...
... others—that is indeed why the Mother has given flowers, not only as a blessing but as a help in illness. I put a value on the body first as an instrument, dharmasādhana , or, more fully, as a centre of manifested personality in action, a basis of spiritual life and Page 497 activity as of all life and activity upon the earth, but also because for me the body as well as the mind and life... there had been any visible or undoubted improvement, yet today Dr. Z told the Mother that he was amazed by the improvement, he had not thought such a thing possible, but now he knew because he had seen it.) The other reason is that sadhaks ought not to need an intermediary between themselves and the Mother—their bodies Page 508 as well as their minds ought by this time to have become ... have not succeeded yet in eliminating the fact or probability of those three does not cancel the fact of my success with the others. As for the Mother, she used formerly to cure everything at once by the same Power—now she has no time to think about her body or to concentrate on it. Even so when she makes a certain inner concentration she can see, read etc. perfectly well without glasses, but she has ...
... two sights most deeply engraved on my memory. Both relate to the Mother. Once there was a meditation and, as was my wont, I kept opening my eyes and looking around. After the meditation had progressed for some minutes they fell on the Mother. Well, I have never seen the Mother as I saw her then. She was no longer human. Her whole body appeared to have become magnified and there was a light pervading... knowledge, to the measureless movement of the Mother's eternal forces. Tranquil is she and wonderful, great and calm for ever...." This was the first time I realised that when the Mother wants she can put forth the Divine Presence and Power completely into the physical being and manifest it. My wife Sehra has seen light coming out of the Mother's whole body and, as it were, assimilating the physical substance... (laughter) When editing Nirod's accounts, I submitted a few of Sri Aurobindo's jokes to the Mother for approval and she said: "No, no, you can't publish that in Mother India." Sri Aurobindo and the Mother do not deliberately keep any barriers between themselves and their disciples. I have found the Mother behaving without the slightest sense of the gulf separating her in quality of consciousness ...
... but simultaneous. Therefore it cannot be expressed in words: it has to be lived. 1 – The Mother In December 1972, less than a year before she would lay down her body, the Mother thought back to that crucial moment on 5 December 1950: the passing of Sri Aurobindo. “He had gathered in his body much supramental Force and as soon as he left … You see, he was lying on his bed, I stood near him... communicated to the Mother every progress, every gain, every realisation; the Mother took on the task of building up and guiding the Ashram, a world in miniature: she literally did the Yoga of all the accepted disciples, “taking them into her consciousness as in an egg”. When Sri Aurobindo called the Second World War “the Mother’s War”, he must have had good reasons. And, as her body was constitutionally... about how this is going to happen [the transformation of the body], all that I can tell you is that it has begun. If you read attentively the next issue of the Bulletin … you will see that it has begun.” 12 In the issue referred to, the Mother published Some Experiences of the Body Consciousness and New Experiences of the Body Consciousness. Without the titles these experiences would read ...
... working even in the atoms of the body. * “Mother, look, I seem to have a new skin problem on my neck,” a girl told the Mother. The Mother rubbed that spot with Her finger very hard for some time. It was quite a sight to see the Mother doing this. And the skin problem just vanished! * A boy fell from the vaulting box and hurt his spine very badly. The Mother was present in the Playground when... near Bula-da’s room the Mother spotted me from far. I entered the Meditation Hall. I kept telling myself: “My body is not receptive. Then how did my boil burst?” Very proudly I stepped forward toward the Mother. But the Mother did not even look at me. She just put some flower-blessings in my hand and bid me farewell. After a lot of thought I understood that the Mother had taken on Her Mahakali... face of the Mother. How terrified I was that day! I did not understand then how the Mother’s infinite Compassion and Grace had dissipated all the obstacles in a flash. How true it is then, My life is filled with Her ruthless Grace. My body and being overflowed with gratitude for this deliverance from unbearable pain and I bowed at the Mother’s Feet. Now I understand why the Mother puts on this ...
... 61 The Mother’s body was not an ordinary human body anymore (and neither was Sri Aurobindo’s). We have already seen how refined and sensitive it had become after her occult schooling in Tlemcen and the sequence of experiences described in her Prayers and Meditations. ‘Behind the physical body [of the Mother] there are many forms and powers and personalities of the Mother,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo;... described in Savitri, culminating in ‘The Book of the Divine Mother.’ To understand Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s venture, it is essential not to forget that she was an incarnation of the transcendent, cosmic and individual Divine Mother in a human body, just as he was an incarnation of the transcendent, cosmic and individual Ishwara in a human body. ‘Either she is that or she is not’ and he is that or he... Iyengar, who mentions this quote in his biography of the Mother, adds: ‘It was as though the body and spirit of the Mother permeated the very cells and tissues of the sadhaks’ being.’ 60 Soup may be a more unusual substance than a wafer made of wheat, though both substances are unquestionably Matter. The fact of transference of the Mother’s spiritualized substance to that of the disciples was a supreme ...
... enjoy by means of the television set. The Unity-Consciousness needs a unity-body in order to express itself on Earth. The Mother once described the characteristics of the unity-body, of the future supramental body, to a young Ashramite: ‘You know, if there is something on that window-sill and if I [in a supramental body] want to take it, I stretch out my hand and it becomes — wow! — long, and I... some reason or other this body becomes unusable, the universal Mother will recommence manifesting herself in hundreds of individualities according to their capacity and receptivity, every one being a partial manifestation of the Universal Consciousness.”’ 62 ‘Mother is Getting Old’ I am the only one who is young. 63 — The Mother The battle in her body between the new and the... and malleable body endowed with extraordinary capacities and able to do everything; a body without age, a creation of the New Consciousness or else a transformed body such as none has ever imagined … All that is above man will be within its reach. It will be guided by the Truth alone and nothing less. That is what it is and more even than has ever been conceived.’ 20 This the Mother told in French ...
... physical.” 61 Without going into details, let us consider the following. A transitional body, generated as all bodies are now, is not sexless. As the body the Mother saw was sexless, it must have been a supramental body, for this is how she said the supramental body would be. At the time she saw her new body, “as of a very, very young person”, she was ninety-four. What she called “the subtle physical”... as possible.” 41 The more the Mother’s body became supramentalised, the more its realisations spread in the body of humanity. For a supramentalised cell is no longer an individual in the separate, egoistic sense – the supramental Consciousness and ego do not agree – it is divinely omnipresent, as the supramental body will be omnipresent. Therefore the Mother sometimes quipped that coming into... doubt that the Mother had built a supramental body that would be the prototype or archetype of the supramental bodies to come. With the descent of the Supermind, the establishment of the Overman Consciousness and the realisation of the prototype of the supramental body all the foundations were laid for the development of the New World. This also means that, like Sri Aurobindo, the Mother lives in an ...
... with each succeeding year, the Mother's elemental, invisible, intestine, excruciating, exhausting, ecstatic, inexpressible Sadhana of the Body; the locked struggle to establish the reign of the Divine in the very bones, blood-streams, tissues and cells of the body; the unbelievably heroic effort to transform the body material Page 839 and chemical into the body transfigured and divine; the... and glorified yogic body on the evening of 17 November 1973 - these and the many other flagstaffs and lighthouses that mark the mystery and marvel of the Mother's progressive manifestation and divine ministry and saga of integral transformation have already been described in some detail in the spacious body of this book. And while, in the clouded eyes of the world, the Mother's long journey had peacefully... grief And gather them into a mother's arms." "Thy embrace which rends the living knot of pain, Thy joy, O Lord, in which all creatures breathe, Thy magic flowing waters of deep love, Thy sweetness give to me for earth and men." 1 I On the eve of Sri Aurobindo's birth centenary, the Mother gave the assurance that although he had left his body "he is still with us, alive and ...
... had his experience with the Mother around midnight, in the train between Pondicherry and Madras when seeing off his sister-in-law. The Mother’s promise dated from 1938. In K.D. Sethna we also read: ‘Not too long after the glorious 29 February the Mother said to a few sadhaks, including my close friend Nirodbaran, that she saw no reason why she should not leave her body now that the things that had... Matter of his body, at the time he had to take the decision to descend fully conscious and with all his avataric powers into death. The Mother, who was carrying on the Yoga, reported from time to time on the growth of the transitional, overhuman being in her and therefore in humanity. Now she says that Matter is developing the Unity-Consciousness. Can a body cell contain the universe? Can a body cell contain... – two short flashes, one long. It was the “Wednesday meditation.” One saw Mother in the dark, seated in her low chair, bent somewhat forward, with a Plumeria flower between her motionless fingers. She always looked white, this Mother, even when dressed in red or in whatever colour, as if something radiated through her body, a kind of white luminosity at times so dense that it became visible to our ...
... to muse on past irrecoverable joys but gaze forward to a future of more and more bliss of self- giving to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother." "... the body itself has not kept pace in every feature. I indeed don't feel less fit in general at 85 than at 25... but the lower body has suffered, though without affecting in the least my day-to-day mood which... is touched by something of the light and de- light... humility that bhuri aspasta kartvam (Rigveda 1.10.2)— "there is made clear the much that has still to be done." And is that not what the Mother herself conveyed to him in 1990 when he was sitting close to his wife's lifeless body? A large picture of the Mother was hanging behind the bed on which Lalita had been laid. "When I looked at it intently on that late evening," reveals K.D.S., "it conveyed... been permanently established in me by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. To the inner being, nothing had happened. I am almost inclined to say that the fall was worth while just for me to discover this profound serenity.” Now about K.D.S.’s second accidental fall which was much more painful and much more grievous for the well-being of his body. He had to be hospitalised for more than six weeks. But all ...
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