DECEMBER 5

TWO STATEMENTS BY SEHRA IN 1956 AND THE MOTHER'S COMMENT

First Statement

This is my experience during the meditation. I had no sense of body. There was nothing except infinite space. Then I heard a voice which said: "From now on, I will rule the world." I asked "Who is that I?" The answer came: "The Supermind." Then I laughed and asked: "But who is the Supermind?" At the same time I said "Sri Aurobindo" as if addressing him — and then there was a sort of stroke on my mind and I knew that I had uttered the answer.

It was all darkness. It was from this darkness that the voice came. When the last answer "Sri Aurobindo" came I was looking into the darkness. Out of it very slowly an egg-shaped fire came. At first it was quite red, then it became a little golden together with red. Then it began to move round and round me. This was the Supermind come forward to rule the world.

Second Statement

When I asked Mother what was the meaning of "From now on", she said: "The very moment the meditation started at 10 o'clock in the morning. So far Sri Aurobindo was not doing anything." Mother herself saw the oval lit-up picture, which was there, of Sri Aurobindo becoming red at first and then golden. It was something grand and intense. The background

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of the light was all dark and in the darkness all the gods — Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva — were lying as if heaped like rocks. It meant that their reign had been over and Sri Aurobindo's had begun.

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