Acknowledgments We wish to extend our gratitude and sincere appreciation to The Foundation for World Education, which has made the printing of this book possible. The Foundation was created by the late Mrs. Eleanor Montgomery, who was a friend and a devotee of the Mother. Our sincere thanks also to Eric Hughes, whose careful and professional proofreading of the manuscript and his love of the work have given the English polish this book deserves. Page-194

Man is a transitional being; he is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process. —Sri Aurobindo ON THE WAY TO SUPERMANHOOD OTHER BOOKS BY SATPREM Mother, a biography in 3 volumes: 1.The Divine Materialism (1980) 2.The New Species (1983) 3.The Mutation of Death (forthcoming) The Mind of the Cells, essay (1982) Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, essay (1984) MOTHER'S AGENDA 1951-1973

2 The Great Process The secret of a circle is in the very next circle, as the secret of the arrow is in the goal it pursues, and if we could retrace our steps to the Master Archer, we would have the secret of secrets, the central point that determines this circle and all circles, the goal of all goals. But the pursuit is said to be a long one, and we must go back one step at a time, from the tool to the Hand that guides the tool, since we ourselves started out by being that tool: a little vital antenna groping around a self of life before discovering itself as a moth or a millipede, a little mental antenna quivering inexplicably around a nimble self before discoveri

11 The Change of Power BUT, in truth, this Harmony of the new world is not expressed by great music or ecstatic joys. It is far more discreet and far more efficient-maybe we should say far more demanding. There is but one Harmony, as there is one Consciousness and one earthly body, which are those of the greater Self, but this Harmony and Consciousness are unveiled a little at a time, as we grow and the scales fall from our eyes, and their effects are different, depending at what level we grasp them. Harmony chants high above, and it is grand and sublime, but it has chanted for millenia and ages without changing much in the world and the hearts of men. And

The Philosophy of Love Everyday I awake a philosopher. I look at the state of the world and the ages. Today I awoke with the philosophy of Love. Love Love for the sea Love for music Love for beauty Love for Mother Divine Love I feel great pity for these poor men, who are what, who love what ? This world was created for love And it is by love we live. Page-7 It is the first instinct of life. And then... what ? The plant loves the sun, seeks the sun The small green alga coils round the rock to drink in life And the whole of life touches and feels around to take its prey lovingly or (so it seems) c

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SUMMARY OF BOOK SIX CANTO I THE WORD OF FATE Narad, the sage, from Paradise came chanting through the air "bordering the mortal's plane". He came attracted by the golden summar-earth that lay like a bowl "tilted upon a table of the Gods" He came from happy paths of the immortals "to a world of toil and quest and grief and hope", of death and life. From Mind he passed to Matter. He passed through a sea of ether and then through "primal air", from there he went through the "creative fire" and saw its triple power "to build and form". "He beheld the cosmic Being at his task" and "the eternal labour of the Gods". Then a change of mood came over Narad:

SUMMARY OF BOOK ELEVEN THE BOOK OF EVERLASTING DAY CANTO ONE THE ETERNAL DAY: THE SOUL'S CHOICE AND SUPREME CONSUMMATION NOW God's everlasting day surrounded Savitri: She lived in the finite fronts of Infinity—they were ever new to an everlasting sight. Delights, grandeur, powers, scenes, forms—all came from the eternal Source. Night was impossible there. It was "a march of universal power in Time" harbouring a cosmic rapture in endless figuring of the spirit. Of all that was there "eternity was the substance and the source". All occult planes were seen and found active: "seven immortal earths", ''homes of the blest", pastures of eter

HOW I CAME TO THE ASHRAM   rakhal das bose   It was in 1906 during my college life (when I was 20) that I attended some of the political meetings of  Sri Aurobindo after the eventful Partition of Bengal. This Partition — a veritable act of God in disguise — had stirred the life and mind of Bengal, nay almost of the whole of India, after cen­turies of inertia and apathy. During those days there were no loudspeakers but voices of veterans like Surendranath Banerji and Bepin Chandra Pal reached the farthest ends of crowded meetings, sometimes over a lakh of people, amidst din and noise of the huge mass of humanity that had gathered. But when young Aurobindo Babu (Sri A

An Apology It was in 1959 that the casket containing the Relics of Sri Aurobindo was taken by the authorities of Bangabani Nabadwip West Bengal to be enshrined there on the 21st February. They held Seminars for discussing Cultural and Spiritual matters. On the last day i. e. on the 28th a seminar for 'Savitri' was held under the chairmanship of Dr. Sishir Ghosh at that time the Professor of English of Santiniketan. Sri Chinmoy, a promising young boy of the Ashram, and now a renowned spiritual teacher in America, insisted very eagerly upon me to write an essay on Savitri, to be read in the Seminar, as I had already written resume of the first part of Savitri consisting of 24 can