Mother Nature         Along a path of aeons serpentine... The Earth-Goddess toils across the sands of Time.34                                                                                                                                  — Sri Aurobindo         The New Year's Message for 1958 read as follows: 'O Nature, material Mother, thou hast said that thou wilt collaborate and there is no limit to the splendour of this collaboration.'35 On New Year's Day a youngster asked the Mother to explain her mysterious message. The Mother, foreseeing the question, had already written down her answer.         However, before we ourselves read her answer it must be said that th

Transformation of the body cells         In our body's cells there sits a hidden Power       That sees the unseen and plans eternity. . .47                                                         — Sri Aurobindo   If all this gives us a glimpse of the Mother's multifarious outer activities, what was she busy with inwardly? Now that she had accepted to take on alone the avataric Yoga, her effort to bring down the Supramental and the transformation of Matter, what precisely was her work? The Mother spoke a lot at the time, generally in public, but very little about her personal endeavour. What she spoke about in public was usually based on her vast previ