Meeting Sri Aurobindo
The Mother came to Pondicherry in 1914 to meet Sri Aurobindo.
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She says: "As soon as I saw Sri Aurobindo I recognised in him the well-known being whom I used to call Krishna.... And this is enough to explain why I am fully convinced that my place and my work are near him in India. " |
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November 19, 1912
I said... that I had definitively found Thee, that the Union was constant. Such is indeed the state of which I am conscious. All my thoughts go towards Thee, all my acts are consecrated to Thee; Thy Presence is for me an absolute, immutable, invariable fact, and Thy Peace dwells constantly in my heart....
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Thou art all, everywhere, and in all, and this body which acts is Thy own body, just as is the visible universe in its entirety; it is Thou who breathest, thinkest and lovest in this substance which, being Thyself, desires to be Thy willing servant.
May 11, 1913
O Lord....
Thou fillest my being, Thou animatest it, Thou settest in motion its hidden springs, Thou illuminest its understanding, Thou intensifiest its life, Thou increasest tenfold its love; and I no longer know whether the universe is I or I the universe, whether Thou art in me or I in Thee; Thou alone art and all is Thou; and the streams of Thy infinite grace fill and overflow the world.
Sing O lands, sing O peoples, sing O men,
The Divine Harmony is there.
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March 9, 1914
Blessed was the day when I came to know Thee, O Ineffable Eternity.
Blessed among all days be that day when the earth at last awakened shall know Thee and shall live only for Thee.
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March 24, 1914
Yesterday afternoon, during those long hours of silent contemplation, I understood at last what is meant by true identification with the object of one's thought.... I understood that I would need long, very long hours of contemplation to be able to perfect this realisation. This is one of the things I expect from the journey to India, if indeed Thou dost consider it useful for Thy service, Lord....
Grant that I may accomplish my mission, that I may help in Thy integral manifestation.
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The Mother had been spiritually conscious from her youth, even from her childhood upward and she had done Sadhana and had developed this knowledge very long before she came to India.
Sri Aurobindo
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The Mother's sadhana started when she was very young. When she was twelve or thirteen, every evening many teachers came to her and taught her various spiritual disciplines. Among them was a dark Asiatic figure. When we first met, she immediately recognised me as the dark Asiatic figure whom she used to see a long time ago. That she should come here and work with me for a common goal was, as it were, a divine dispensation.
Sri Aurobindo
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Pondicherry, March 29, 1914
0 Thou whom we must know, understand, realise, absolute Consciousness, eternal Law, Thou who guidest and illuminest us, who movest and inspirest us, grant that these weak souls may be strengthened and those who fear be reassured. To Thee I entrust them, even as I entrust to Thee our entire destiny.
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Between 11 and 13 a series of psychic and spiritual experiences revealed to me not only the existence of God but man's possibility of uniting with Him, of realising Him integrally in consciousness and action, of manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. This, along with a practical discipline for its fulfilment, was given to me during my body's sleep by several teachers, some of whom I met afterwards on the physical plane.
Later on, as the interior and exterior development proceeded, the spiritual and psychic relation with one of these beings became more and more clear and frequent; and although I knew little of the Indian philosophies and religions at that time I was led to call him Krishna, and henceforth I was aware that it was with him (whom I knew I should meet on earth one day) that the divine work was to be done....
As soon as I saw Sri Aurobindo I recognised in him the well-known being whom I used to call Krishna....
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March 30, 1914
It matters little that there are thousands of beings plunged in the densest ignorance, He whom we saw yesterday is on earth; his presence is enough to prove that a day will come when darkness shall be transformed into light, and Thy reign shall indeed be established upon earth.
0 Lord, Divine Builder of this marvel, my heart overflows with joy and gratitude when I think of it, and my hope has no bounds.
My adoration is beyond all words, my reverence is silent.
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April 3, 1914
An immense gratitude rises from my heart, it seems to me that I have at last reached the threshold I sought so much.
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.. .I shall relate an experience of mine when I first met Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. I was in deep concentration, seeing things in the Supermind, things that were to be but which were somehow not manifesting. I told Sri Aurobindo what I had seen and asked him if they would manifest. He simply said, "Yes." And immediately I saw that the Supramental had touched the earth and was beginning to be realised! This was the first time I had witnessed the power to make real what is true...
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My present teaching is that the world is preparing for a new progress, a new evolution. Whatever race, whatever country seizes on the lines of that new evolution and fulfills it, will be the leader of humanity. In the Arya I state the thought upon which this new evolution will be based as I see it, and the method of Yoga by which it can be accomplished. Of course, I cannot speak plainly yet my whole message... is there, for those who care to understand. It has really three parts: 1) for each man as an individual to change himself into the future type of divine humanity, the men of the new Satyayuga which is striving to be born; 2) to evolve a race of such men to lead humanity and 3) to call all humanity to the path under the lead of these pioneers and this chosen race.
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It was the whole programme of what Sri Aurobindo has done, and the method of doing the work on earth, and I had foreseen this in 1912.I met Sri Aurobindo for the first time in 1914, that is, two years later, and I had already made the whole programme.
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The general aim to be attained is the advent of a progressing universal harmony.
The means for attaining this aim, in regard to the earth, is the realisation of human unity through the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity which is One....
This, therefore, is the most useful work to be done:
(1)For each individually, to be conscious in himself of the Divine Presence and to identify himself with it.
(2)To individualise the states of being that were never till now conscious in man and, by that, to put the earth in connection with one or more of the fountains of universal force that are still sealed to it.
(3)To speak again to the world the eternal word under a new form adapted to its present mentality. It will be the synthesis of all human knowledge.
(4)Collectively, to establish an ideal society in a propitious spot for the flowering of the new race, the race of the Sons of God.
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Mother was doing Yoga before she knew or met Sri Aurobindo; but their lines of Sadhana independently followed the same course. When they met, they helped each other in perfecting the Sadhana.
Sri Aurobindo
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Mother,
Did you have any communications with Sri Aurobindo before you came to know him? For I have read some books where it is said that you and Sri Aurobindo have done almost the same work.
The work was and is the same, because the source of his inspiration and mine is the same: the Supreme.
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Since the beginning of earth history, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great earthly transformations, under one form or another, one name or another.
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Sri Aurobindo does not belong to the past nor to history. Sri Aurobindo is the Future advancing towards its realisation.
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Sri Aurobindo does not belong to a country but to the whole earth. His teaching leads us towards a better future.
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Sri Aurobindo is an emanation of the Supreme who came on earth to announce the manifestation of a new race and a new world: the Supramental.
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