(To Nolini:) Do you know? (Nolini:) At the beginning, when he came to Pondicherry [in1910].At the very beginning.... But then, what does he mean when he says, "When I knew that God was a woman"! (Nolini:) He always used to say that Krishna and Kali were one and the same being. Ramakrishna, too, once became a woman: God was Krishna and he became a woman; for a long time he had that impression.Naturally, for me, the answer is this sense of humor! (Mother laughs) (Satprem:) Yes, you write to T., "Sri Aurobindo had the geniusof humor and one only has to admire and be silent."That was my first reply, but after that, T. asked me, "Why exactly did Sri Aurobindo put it that way?..." It depends on the date when it was written. (Satprem:) It looks like the same experience as Ramakrishna's. (Nolini:) At the time he used to sign letters not "Sri Aurobindo" but "Kali."Oh! (Nolini:) Yes, always.... All the letters he wrote to Motilal were signed that way.But the way he puts it!... (general laughter) page 110-11 - Mother's Agenda , volume 11 , 21st March , 1970 |
What exactly does he mean? I don't understand.... He writes as if he felt identified with Kali more than with Krishna. Yet (and he told me so) there was something of Krishna in him. So I would have liked to know if all those things were written at the same time, or years apart? Nolini seems to say it was at the beginning.Yes, it was at the beginning. At a time when he used to sign his letters "Kali" [around 1912].Oh, there was a time when he used to sign "Kali".... He always signed his letters "Kali": the letters to Motilal, [[Motilal Roy, a disciple from Chandernagore with whom Sri Aurobindo corresponded between 1912 and 1920. ]] for instance.Oh, I never saw that, I didn't know. So it was at that time. (silence) It was certainly long before I came [in 1914].page 124 - Mother's Agenda , volume 11 , 1st Apr 1970 |