-32_A Dream-Vision (Huta).htm A Dream-Vision* On 16th October 1974 early in the morning I had a dream-vision. I saw Durga's lion—a beautiful, majestic, golden-skinned creature. In front of him was a strange-looking being. It was felt to be Falsehood. The lion leaped upon it, tearing its face with his claws and then ripping the whole body. He pulled out, one after another, all the hidden parts and ate them up. What remained was only the hollow skin of the body. But to my utter amazement this skin started to move, hopping forward in order to create an impression of life and have an effect in the world. HUTA A COMMENT BY NOLINI It is self-explanatory. The hostile force is destroyed, but its

Introduction The writings collected here—with slight revision at times—first appeared in Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, in various issues from December 1973 to February 1976. All of them relate to the Mother. Several bear upon the event of the Mother's passing away on November 17,1973. Others look back upon her life and work up to that day, focus on some particular spiritual achievement of hers, record talks with her, revive personal memories, give diary-notes of Yoga under her guidance or look forward to the continuation of her help in inner and outer living. All these writings are from one pen. A supplement has b

-31_A Dream of Reality (Huta).htm 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 feeling as when She used to embrace me in the old days. I was still in amazement. She then became invisible but I distinctly heard Her parting words: "I am coming..." HUTA A COMMENT BY NOLINI She showed to you her living presence still continues. * Mother India, November 1974. Page-

-27_Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Tribute to the Mother.htm Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Tribute to the Mother* I am profoundly grieved at the passing away of the Mother. It was rather a privilege to know such a being and to have her in our midst for so many years. May her words continue to give sustenance to her disciples and others. The Mother was a dynamic, radiant personality with tremendous force of character and extraordinary spiritual attainments. Yet she never lost her sound practical wisdom which concerned itself with the running of the Ashram, the welfare of society, the founding and development of Auroville and any scheme which would promote the ideals expressed by Sri Aurobindo.

-18_Immortality Day (K. D. Sethna).htm SUPPLEMENT "Immortality Day"* SOME LIGHT ON A LITTLE-KNOWN EVENT IN THE ASHRAM'S SPIRITUAL HISTORY I arrived in the Ashram on December 16, 1927. It was a little more than a year after November 24,1926, the Siddhi Day, the Day of Victory marking the descent of what Sri Aurobindo has called the Overmind, the Krishna Consciousness, the plane of the Great Gods, into the physical being of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. This Victory was to prepare the descent of the supreme divine dynamism that has never directly worked in the world and that Sri Aurobindo has termed the Supermind, the Truth-Consciousness, the spiritual Power hold

THE MOTHER: PAST—PRESENT—FUTURE THE MOTHER: PAST—PRESENT—FUTURE K.D. SETHNA [AMAL KIRAN] Clear Ray Trust Pondicherry - 605 012, India Copyright © 2004 by Clear Ray Trust Published by: Clear Ray Trust 25 & 27, Chinnatambi Street, Kuruchikuppam Pondicherry — 605 012 1st Edition 1977 2nd Edition 2004 Price: Rs. 135/- ISBN: 81-87916-05-2 Typeset and Printed by: All India Press Kennedy Nagar Pondicherry - 605 001 India The Mother and Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna) in 1952

-24_Sri Aurobindo and the Supermind's Descent.htm Sri Aurobindo and the Supermind's Descent* A WRITTEN QUESTION AND THE MOTHER'S ORAL ANSWER Q. Here is a quotation from you, which appeared in 1954 in an article by the Associate Editor of Mother India: "Even in 1938 I used to see the Supermind descending into Sri Aurobindo. What he could not do at that time was to fix it here." An article in February 1968 by the Editor has understood this to mean that in 1938 the Supramental Force, which had already settled in Sri Aurobindo's inner being, made its first appearance in his body but could not yet be fixed down in it, so as to make it stay there. Could one know from you what exac

"The Mother of Dreams"* SOME EXPERIENCES FROM 1973 I left for Bombay from Pondicherry by plane on August 2, 1973 to have the cataract in my right eye removed. I had to remain there owing to unexpected circumstances right on to the night of November 18. On the morning of that day I had a phone-call from Pondicherry informing me of the Mother's passing away the previous evening. Along with my wife, her sister, my sister, my niece and her husband who were all in Bombay at the time, I flew homeward the same night. Looking back at the stay in Bombay I cannot help seeing the Grace of the Mother in the series of dreams I had of her, such as had never happened to me in all th

O Silent Love...* Because You never claim of us a tear, O silent Love, how often we forget The eyes of countless centuries were wet To bring Your smile so near! Forgive if I remember not the blaze, Imperishable, perfect, infinite, Of far Omnipotence from which You lit Your lamp of human face! Make me a worship-vigil everywhere, Slumber and wakefulness one memory That You are God: O let each pore of me Become a mouth of prayer! * Mother India, November 1974. Page-19

Some Memories of the Mother* It is natural that I should look back again and again on the forty-six years during which I knew the Mother. I first saw her on December 16, 1927, and the last look was on November 20, 1973, the day she was laid in the teak-wood casket and placed in the same vault as Sri Aurobindo, both of them making a common "Samadhi" in the courtyard of the Ashram they had built up and loved and set floating like a dream-ship on the uncharted waters of the unknown Supermind. Already I have written about her in many an essay, just as I have done about Sri Aurobindo; but there is always more to remember of a personality that had such a multitude of diamond