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Chapter
Three
A BACKDOOR TO SPIRITUALITY
The India in which he
arrived from Great Britain must have looked like a cultural desert to Aurobindo
Ghose. The literature of the regional languages was still in its infancy
(except in Bengal) and the literary production in English was of poor quality.
Far away now were the lush cultural pastures of Cambridge and London, where
Aurobindo's eldest brother, the poet Manmohan, had befriended Laurence Binyon,
Stephen Philips and Oscar Wilde, the last calling him 'an Indian panther in
evening brown.' Small wonder that Aurobindo spent a substantial part of his
salary on crates of English books ordered from Bombay and which,
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Chapter
Seven
SRI AUROBINDO'S VISION
It is an enormous spiritual revolution
rehabilitating matter and the creation1
— The Mother
Aurobindo Ghose and Mirra
Alfassa, whom henceforth we will only call Sri Aurobindo* and the Mother, had
from very different backgrounds arrived at the same experiences and the same
vision. 'There is no difference between the Mother's path and mine; we have and
have always had the same path, the path that leads to the supramental change
and the divine realization; not only at the end, but from the beginning they
have been the same,'2 wrote S
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Part Two
Sri
Aurobindo and
the Mother
Chapter
Twelve
KRISHNA AND THE WORLD OF THE GODS
In 1926, Sri Aurobindo
and the Mother had, as we have seen, the supramental realization in the parts
of their personality which we might call, using Sri Aurobindo's
terminology, the mental and the vital. This means nothing less than that in
these parts of their evolution embodied adhara
they were the manifested Divine, not theoretically but factually and
practically. That they chose not to proclaim this fact does not diminish the
grandeur of it, but as a consequence of its unimaginability,
few disciples have been aware of the high degree and th
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Chapter Ten
THE TWO-IN-ONE
... the deathless Two-in-One,
a single being in two bodies clasped
— Savitri
'I had met Sri Aurobindo before,
but it only began clearly in 1920.' It, the Great Work they had to
undertake together, 'an alchemic transmutation of all the inner and outer
existence,'2 (Sri Aurobindo). It was to be a transmutation that
would produce, the body of a higher species, but this
time not within the scope of the lower hemisphere of Existence and not with a
gradual change which perhaps might have led to a Nietzschean superman. This new
species would possess a s
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Chapter Twenty-six
IN THE CRUCIBLE
The Soul is the Key
The liberation of the individual soul is the keynote of the definite divine action;1
—Sri Aurobindo
The previous chapters have given us some idea of the supramental process of transformation the body of the Mother was undergoing. This process is new and unusual for anyone who learns about it for the first time. So it was for her who experienced it in her body. But what had happened to the soul? What about the soul in all of this? We are hearing a lot about body, matter, cells, consciousness of the cell
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Epilogue
THE SUN FOR EVER
At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of its destiny.1
— Sri Aurobindo
BEGINNING WITH the Renaissance, a period of new awakening started which has accelerated history and is unifying the Earth. From that time onwards, the New Era was growing unper-ceived, like a child in the womb; the twentieth century has been the century of the birth, of the fruition of the seed that, so many centuries earlier, had been
implanted by the representatives of the
'New
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Part Three
The Mother Alone
Chapter
Nineteen
TWELVE QUIET DAYS
I do not believe in the limit
that canno
t be
exceeded.1
— The Mother
Since the beginning of the earth, wherever and whenever there
was the possibility of manifesting a ray of the Consciousness, I was there.1
— The Mother
Sri Aurobindo's sudden corporeal absence meant an
enormous blow to the Mother, 'a sledgehammer blow,' as she said afterwards, 'an annihilation'. 'The very idea that Sri Au
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Chapter Twenty-eight
THE CATERPILLAR AND THE BUTTERFLY
'Dying to death,' in other words no longer being able to die because death has become unreal.1
—The Mother
And death shall have no dominion.
— Dylan Thomas
The Mother laid down her material body on 17 November 1973.
A European sadhak remembers: 'On 18 November, at about seven o'clock in the morning, my downstairs neighbour, a Tamil who had served in the French army and who had become like a brot
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Chapter
Five
TWELVE PEARLS
The eternal
Goddess moved in her cosmic house
Sporting with God as a Mother with her child ... 1
— Savitri
The Mother has said more
than once that she had chosen her parents. 'I have chosen my parents to have a
solid physical base, for I knew the work I had to do was very, very difficult
and needed a solid base.'2 She also said that for her start in life
no better training was imaginable than the no-nonsense attitude of the
materialistic Mathilde with her constant hammering on
the necessity of perfection. Not an easy environment for a ch
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Chapter
Seventeen
THE FIVE 'DREAMS' OF SRI AUROBINDO
It is not for personal greatness that I
am seeking to bring down the
Supermind. I care nothing for greatness
or littleness in the human
sense ... If
human reason regards me as a
fool for
trying to do what Krishna did
not try,
I do not in the least care ... It is a
question between the Divine
and
myself — whether it is the
Divine Will
or not, whether I am sent to
bring that
down or open the way for its descent
or at least make it more
possible or
not. all
men jeer at me if they will
or all Hcl
fall upon me if it will for
my presumption, — I go on ti