-22_The Mother's Statement on how Pavitra (Philippe Barbier St. Hilaire) Passed Away on May 16 1969.htm The Mother's Statement on how Pavitra (Philippe Barbier St.-Hilaire) Passed Away on May 16,1969* It was very interesting, the experience I had that night. Nothing like it I ever had in my life. It was the night before the day he passed away. The time was 9 o'clock. I felt he was withdrawing, withdrawing in an extraordinary manner. He was coming out of himself and gathering and pouring himself into me. He was coming out consciously and deliberately with the full force of a concentrated will. He continued to do so steadily, ceaselessly for hours. It ended at about 1 o'clock, I looked at the

-20_What the Mother Endured and Achieved for the Earth in 1962 (K. D. Sethna).htm What the Mother Endured and Achieved for the Earth in 1962* 1 INTRODUCTORY REPORT1 The Mother was not well for some time in early 1962. But she kept on working. She even came to the Balcony now and again to give the morning Darshan as usual. But the 18th of March was the last day. After that, she fell seriously ill and did not come down from her room on the second floor. She began to have heart-attacks. One day she had them twice in twenty-four hours. They were severe. A third followed the next day. Some time later she recounted to a disciple the experience connected with the heart-attacks. No definitive

November 17, 1974* A LOOK BACKWARD AND FORWARD 1 November 17,1974, marks the passage of a full year since the Mother left her body. Along with the understandable human reaction to the passing away of a most cherished presence, there has been a deep sense of something unimaginably great done by the withdrawal from the immediate visible scene, there has been the conviction of a reader pour mieux sauter, a "drawing back in order to make a spring". Not only amongst those who have been around the Mother for decades but also amongst people far away an urge has arisen to cleave closer to her light and love. From distant Europe and still more from farther America, men and wom

The Mother— Warrior of the Supermind* A NOTE ON THE ESSENTIAL TRUTH AND SOME SEEMING DISCREPANCIES Right up to the end the Mother is said to have fought indomitably for the work entrusted to her by Sri Aurobindo: transformation of her body so as to complete the Supramental Yoga and initiate a new Race. But at the same time we have been told of certain moments and moods during her last illness, where she appears helpless or hopeless—a striking contrast to her accepted role as Warrior of the Supermind. And the impression that she was helpless and hopeless reaches its acme when we come to think of her as leaving her body because she who had s

A Message by Nolini* Mother once told me—"If ever I leave my body my Consciousness will remain with you." Mother is present amongst us and Her work continues. Let us once more dedicate ourselves for Her work of transformation with utmost sincerity and faithfulness. 21-11-1973 * Mother India, December 5,1973. Page-176

-33_A Message Heard on November 17 1974 (Sehra).htm A Message Heard on November 17, 1974* BEFORE PASSING IN A QUEUE THROUGH THE MOTHER'S ROOM "Do not look for me only in my room. I have liberated myself from my human's body. I am now everywhere." SEHRA * Mother India, February 21, 1975. Page-184

THE MOTHER The Mother* SOME GENERAL TRUTHS AND PERSONAL FACTS The One whom we call the Supreme is the utter Unmanifest. The creative Conscious Force of the Supreme is the Divine Mother in Her transcendent poise, Aditi, holding the Truths that have to be manifested out of the absolute Mystery. Through the transcendent Mother and by Her creativity the whole universe has taken birth. And when the Supreme manifests in the world His own personal being, He does it also through Her transcendence. In Her universal aspect She is Mahashakti. All the Gods and Goddesses are of Her making—they are but powers that express Her. There are many powers of the universal Mother

-19_The Supramental Manifestation of February 29 1956 (Indra Sen).htm The Supramental Manifestation of February 29,1956* EXTRACTS FROM NOTES OF TWO INTERVIEWS WITH THE MOTHER May 13,1956 THE MOTHER: Were you here on the 29th February? Yes, Mother, I was here. I arrived the same day in the morning and I was present at the "Questions and Answers" and the Meditation. THE MOTHER: Did you feel anything then? No, Mother. All I was aware of is that it was a calm and quiet meditation. It is only on the Darshan Day, the 24th April, that a vague and faint sense of reality of the New Force came to me. And since then the feeling of it has been growing, but I don't have a clear a

The Passing of the Mother* The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram left her body on November 17 at 7.25 p.m. Clinically, her departure has been attributed to heart-failure. Spiritually, we may assert that there could never be a failure of the Mother's heart in the sense either of ceasing to work or of falling short of its goal. Her physical heart was only an outer expression, under self-imposed limits, of a power that was endless in its working. We may well describe it in Sri Aurobindo's words about the central character in his epic Savitri—she who was figured as the incarnation of the Supreme Shakti: A heart of silence in the hands of joy Inhabited with rich

-28_An Experience on the Mother's Samadhi Day (Lalita).htm An Experience on the Mother's Samadhi Day* Heart-broken and utterly depressed I came to You, my dearest Mother, feeling lost and forlorn. It was between 1 and 2 a.m. on the 20th November. "Is this a defeat of the Divine?" I asked. "Why did you leave Your body when all along we were expecting its transformation? Life is not worth living any longer, for all my hopes and aspirations were centred in You. You were the heart of my heart, my sole guide and protector." As I sat complaining thus and weeping inwardly near Your body which lay in state in the Meditation Hall, I felt a strong Force pulling me deep within myself until I lost all