Beginning
of 'Mother'
In
1926, I had begun a sort of overmental creation, that is, I had
brought the overmind down into matter, here on earth (miracles
and all kinds of things were beginning to happen). I asked all
these gods to incarnate, to identify themselves with a body (some
of them absolutely refused). Well, with my very own eyes I saw
Krishna, who had always been in rapport with Sri Aurobindo, consent
to come down into his body. It was on November 24th, and it was
the beginning of 'mother'.
…Krishna
consented to descend into Sri Aurobindo's body—to be
FIXED there; there is a great difference, you understand,
between incarnating, being fixed in a body, and simply acting
as an influence that comes and goes and moves about. The
gods are always moving about, and it's plain that we ourselves,
in our inner beings, come and go and act in a hundred or
a thousand places at once. There is a difference between
just coming occasionally and accepting to be permanently
tied to a body - between a permanent influence and a permanent
presence.
These things have to be experienced.
…the
phenomenon was important FOR THE CREATION; he himself was
rather indifferent to it. But I did tell him about it.
It was at that time that he decided to stop dealing with
people and retire to his room. So he called everyone together
for the last meeting. Before then, he used to go out on
the verandah every day to meet and talk with all who came
to see him (this is the origin of the famous 'Talks with
Sri Aurobindo'), I was living in the inner rooms and seeing
no one; he was going out onto the verandah, seeing everyone,
receiving people, speaking, discussing—I saw him only
when he came back inside.
After
a while, I too began having meditations with people. I had
begun a sort of 'overmental creation', to make each god
descend into a being—there was an extraordinary upward
curve! Well, I was in contact with these beings and I told
Krishna (because I was always seeing him around Sri Aurobindo),
'This is all very fine, but what I want now is a creation
on earth—you must incarnate.' He said 'Yes.' Then I
saw him—I saw him with my own eyes (inner eyes, of
course), join himself to Sri Aurobindo.
Then
I went into Sri Aurobindo's room and told him, 'Here's what
I have seen.' 'Yes, I know!' he replied (Mother laughs)
'That's fine; I have decided to retire to my room, and you
will take charge of the people. You take charge.' (There
were about thirty people at the time.) Then he called everyone
together for one last meeting. He sat down, had me sit next
to him, and said, 'I called you here to tell you that, as
of today, I am withdrawing for purposes of sadhana, and
Mother will now take charge of everyone; you should address
yourself to her; she will represent me and she will do all
the work.' (He hadn't mentioned this to me!—Mother
burst into laughter)
These
people had always been very intimate with Sri Aurobindo,
so they asked: 'Why, why, why?' He replied, ' It will be
explained to you.' I had no intention of explaining anything,
and I left the room with him, but Datta began speaking.
(She was an English-woman who had left Europe with me; she
stayed here until her death—a person who received 'inspirations'.)
She said she felt Sri Aurobindo speaking through her and
she explained everything: that Krishna had incarnated and
that Sri Aurobindo was now going to do an intensive sadhana
for the descent of the Supermind; that it meant Krishna's
adherence to the Supramental Descent upon
earth and that, as Sri Aurobindo would now be too occupied
to deal with people, he had put me in charge and I would
be doing all the work.
This was in 1926
....
2
August 1961
- The Mother
