She is the golden bridge

She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire.
The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God;
She is the Force, the inevitable Word,.....
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life
And break the seals on the dim soul of man
And kindle her fire in the closed heart of things.
[Savitri : Sri Aurobindo]


On this 21st day of February 2009, which happens to be the birthday anniversary of The Mother, Mira Alfassa, the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, let us remember Her and The Master, in Silence and in utter sincerity and faithfulness.

As we know, born in Paris on 21 February 1878, She spent the first part of her life in Paris with Her parents, who had settled down in France a year before Her birth.

In her early years, She was conscious of the special purpose of Her life, of Her mission on earth. From the age of five She became conscious that She was not of this world and did not have a human consciousness.

Around 1905-06, She came in contact with Max Theon and Madame Theon, who lived in Tlemcen in Algeria around 1905-06. Max Theon was an Occultist of the highest and rarest order. She met Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry on 29th March 1914. She left Pondicherry in February 1915 and proceeded to France and Japan. Later, on 24th April, 1920, She returned to Pondicherry for ever. Thereafter in Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo Ashram was formed and She became known as The Mother.

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Sri Aurobindo, whom millions throughout the world have already hailed as an Incarnation of the Divine, had specifically said that 'the One whom we adore as The Mother,' has also descended and became manifest before us on earth. He referred to Mira Alfassa, and millions on earth adore Her as The Mother.
Questions may be, or rather, have been asked : Who is this Mother? What is this Principle of The Mother? How is this Principle related to the Supreme, to the Divine?
The Ultimate Reality is the Infinite and One Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, whom we have termed as the Brahman, the Divine, the Supreme. The Supreme Divine is the One, Indivisible, Infinite and Pure Existence, who has three aspects, the Transcendental, the Universal and the Individual. In the Transcendental mode, He is the Source of and is also above all manifestation, all the Universes, all the worlds. As the Supreme, He bears the eternal consciousness in Him, above all Time and Space. He is described as the Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, as it is already stated, as sachchidananda. He is Existence, eternal existence, and can even become Non-Existence, beyond the apprehension of any manifested existence.

In the Universal mode, He is one with the Universes, though He is above them and is their Creator and Origin. As the Supreme, who is both Impersonal and Personal, He is the Source and Origin of all that is, of the Universe, or rather the Universes. Though He has no form and no shape, He is the Source and Creator of all forms and shapes. He has become all this Universe, or rather all these universes. He is the Manifestation and the One who manifests. It is His Will that manifests and is manifested. He is the entire Manifestation. And it is His Leela, Play. He is beyond it, and also within it. He is in each atom, in each living being. And He is also the Individual, Personal God. All the Avatars are but His Individual Manifestations.
The Supreme is with His Creative and Conscious Force, the Mahashakti, who is the Divine Mother. They are One and Indivisible, and yet They are Two in Manifestation and even above and beyond Manifestation.

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As we have discussed, Sri Aurobindo has said about The Mother :
"The One whom we adore as The Mother is the Divine Cobscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence."Sri Aurobindo has also said
:"Her embodiment is a chance for the earth-consciousness to receive the Supramental into it and to undergo first the transformation necessary for that to be possible."She is, therefore, so highly and uniquely valuable for the mankind and for the earth. "She is the golden bridge ...," says Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. In fact, She is “the golden bridge” which will enable us, and is enabling us, Her children, to cross the difference and the distance between Mind and Supermind. She is the Force that enables Man and the earth to leap beyond and pass over the gulf of difference between Mind and the Supramental Consciousness, between Darkness and Ignorance and Falsehood on the one hand and on the other hand Light and Wisdom and Truth, and The New Creation. She is enabling us to walk on The New Way. She is enabling us, Her children, to walk towards The New Horizon.

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The Mother said
:"Throughout all this life, knowingly or unknowingly, I have been what the Lord wanted me to be, I have done what the Lord wanted me to do, I have done what the Lord wanted me to do. That alone matters."
She has also said :
"Since, the beginning of the earth, wherever and whenever there was the possibility of manifesting a ray of Consciousness, I was there."
And She has also shown us the Way, the most sublime Way:
"You have to aspire, you have to reject; but the best is if you can keep me in your heart, if you love me, then you will have to do nothing. I shall do all for you."
That is the best Way.

She has given us the Hope, She is the Hopr for us all.
And let us remember always what She has told us to march ahead towards the Goal:
"Let us advance always, without stopping, towards an always more complete manifestation, an always more complete and higher consciousness."

The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have been carrying on the Evolution. They were here — and They are here — in order to carry on the Evolution. Evolution is now at a new and decisive stage, at a turning point, when there will come the end of the reign of Darkness and Ignorance, with the emergence of the Light, of Truth-Consciousness.

As narrated by Sujata in Mother’s Chronicles, Book One, a question asked to Sri Aurobindo about what He and The Mother were doing in Their many births on earth. Sri Aurobindo had replied : “Carrying on the evolution.”

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Out of ignorance, disbelief and blasphemy, someone has asked about Sri Aurobindo:

“How many dead people did he raise back to life, and how many blind did he heal, And how many demons did he cast out, and how many people did he die for to pay for their debt of sin? Please inform us of all his good works and powerful supernatural miracles.”

My answer is as follows:

The entire mankind lives in death — the people all around are in death. They are born in Death, in unconsciousness, or at best in very partial half-consciousness., in ignorance. We are asleep in Death, at best half-awakened. And Sri Aurobindo and The Mother have lived for bringing for us the Life Eternal. They have endeavoured for leading the mankind beyond Death, in the Way of the Supramental Transformation. They have made everything ready, so that Man will conquer Death, physically, really, for ever, in a new consciousness, in a transformed existence. The reign of Death will be over. And the Journey to the new deathless Horizon has already started. For the First time in the history of earthly Evolution, there has been a real Step taken in order to conquer and transcend Death. Sri Aurobindo and The Mother taking us with Them beyond Death. They are raising us to a deathless existence and a deathless consciousness. The Mind could not conquer Death for us, but now the Hope is there, for we will reach the Supermind, in our journey on the New Way, and the mankind will raised out of Death, really.

The entire mankind lives in blindness — the people all around are in blindness. They are born in Darkness and Tamas. There is no Light, or at best, there is only very partial half-light. And Sri Aurobindo and The Mother have lived for bringing for us the Eternal Light. They have endeavoured for leading the mankind beyond Darkness and Ignorance and blindness, in the Way of the Supramental Transformation. They have made everything ready, so that Man will conquer Darkness for ever, in a new consciousness, in a transformed existence. The reign of Darkness will be over. And the Journey to the new enlightened Horizon has already started. For the First time in the history of earthly Evolution, there has been a real Step taken in order to conquer and transcend Darkness and Ignorance, without going into Nirvana, without passing onto the Heaven. Sri Aurobindo and The Mother taking us with Them beyond Darkness and Ignorance. They are raising us to an enlightened existence and an enlightened consciousness. The Mind could not conquer Darkness and Ignorance for us, but now the Hope is there, for we will reach the Supermind, in our journey on the New Way, and the mankind will raised out of Darkness and Ignorance, really.

The entire mankind has been living with demons — the demons of death and darkness and division and ignorance, of cravings and desires, of disbelief and doubt, of envy and greed and hatred, of jealousy, of lust, and so many other demond. The Mind could not conquer these demons, could not cast them out. Now that we will reach Supermind, in our journey on the New Way, these demons will evaporate, really. And the Leaders for our journey on the New Way are Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.

And all these Works that They have done for us and now doing for us are the greatest of all miracles, ever shown here on earth.

Barin
21-2-2009
[Written on 21-02-2009]


Tagged with: Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, Mira Alfassa, Evolution, Supermind, Mind, The Way, The New Horizon

The Descent on 24th November

Prefatory:

I came across a web application named Conspirama [http://conspirama.com/], wherein there has been published an article named “PROPHECIES COMING TRUE: BIG BANG VS SPIRITUAL SCIENCE EXPERIMENT ... “” written by one Shankarlal. What interested me is a reference to Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, or rather, the misrepresentations about Them.
Let me quote what have been the misrepresentations :

“Both Sri Aurobindo and Mother, fired by altruistic zeal to save mankind from imminent annihilation, dedicated themselves to most arduous practice of yoga for years to prepare spiritual environment conducive to such descent. Their dedication bore fruit. On November 24, 1926, the Mother announced to a small group of Sri Aurobindo’s disciples, that, Krishna’s supramental force had descended on earth and assumed a human form. It was the day on which Guru Siyag was born.

“Sri Aurobindo and Mother were convinced that the person, who was thus chosen for the manifestation of the Krishna consciousness in the physical world, would himself undergo the last three stages of ‘Anand’, ‘Chit’ and ‘Sat’. The chosen one’s mission would be to bring about the kind spiritual evolution that he has undergone himself. Sri Aurobindo and Mother were also convinced that if one man on earth underwent complete spiritual revolution, it was practically possible for millions of others to experience this divine transformation, by following the same method. They were aware of the evolution of the Chosen one to be subject to all the trial and tribulations that are part of every human life.”

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“They knew that eventually the chosen one would be made fully conscious of his real mission on earth. This happened in 1969 when Guru Siyag achieved the Gayatri Siddhi in the wee hours of a winter morning in a Rajasthan town. He was engulfed in the divine light of the supramental force, changing his life forever. In the distant coastal town of Pondichery in southern India, Mother, who was always connected with cosmic consciousness, instantly received the vibrations of this momentous happening. She simply said her own mission was complete, as Krishna’s supramental force had become active that day.

“Given below is an excerpt from Mother’s writings of the vision she saw: “November 26/27, 1968: Powerful and prolonged infiltration of supramental forces into the “body” everywhere at the same time, as though the whole body “bathed” in the forces that entered everywhere at the same time with a slight friction, the head down to the neck was the last receptive region. In 1969, on the 1st January 1969 at two o'clock in the morning a consciousness descended into the earth's atmosphere and “settled” there. It was a most marvelous descent, full of light, force, power, joy and peace and suffused the ‘whole’ earth.”

A perusal of the above quotes will be sufficient to see how the reference are being made to Sri Aurobindo and The Mother in order to prove and enhance the credibility of the so-called spiritual greatness of someone else, about whom none of the followers and devotees ever heard as long as they were physically and visibly present on earth.


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The Day of Victory : 24th November 1926

Indeed, Sri Aurobindo had a very great Realization on the 26th November 1926. It was declared as the Siddhi Divas, the Day of Victory. The Mother [Mira Alfassa] said in this regard :

The 24th November is called the day of Victory in remembrance of a very important spiritual event which took place in 1926.

In this regard, Sri Aurobindo stated:
It was the descent of Krishna into physical.

Sri Aurobindo further stated in this matter:
“Krishna is not the supramental Light. The descent of Krishna would mean the descent of the Overmind Godhead preparing, though not itself actually, the descent of Supermind and Ananda. Krishna is the Anandamaya; he supports the evolution through the Overmind leading it towards the Ananda.”

On 24th November 1926, in the evening, Sri Aurobindo came out from his room, which was seen by the Mother. She could immediately know that ‘something important has happened in the History of the Earth and Universe’. She called and asked for all the sadhaks to assemble in the upper verandah of the Library House of the Ashram building. By 6 PM, there were all the twenty four Sadhaks assembled there including Barin, Nolini, Champaklal, Amrita, Pavitra, Purani, Datta.

Purani has described the event as follows :
“There was a deep silence in the atmosphere after the disciples had gathered there. Many saw an oceanic flood of Light rushing down from above. Everyone present felt a kind of pressure above his head. The whole atmosphere was surcharged with some electrical energy. In that silence ..... the usual, yet on this day unusual, tick was heard behind the door of the entrance. Expectation rose in flood. Sri Aurobindo and The Mother could be seen through the half closed door. The Mother with a gesture of her eyes requested Sri Aurobindo to step out first. Sri Aurobindo with a similar gesture suggested to her to do the same. With a slow dignified step the Mother came out first, followed by Sri Aurobindo with his majestic gait.... The Mother sat on a small stool to his right.

Silence absolute, living silence- not merely living but out flowing with divinity. The meditation lasted about forty-five minutes. After that one by one the disciple bowed to the Mother.
She and Sri Aurobindo gave blessings to them. Whenever a disciple bowed to the Mother, Sri Aurobindo's right hand came forward behind the Mother's as if blessing him through the Mother. After the blessings, in the same silence there was a short meditation.
In the interval of silent meditation and blessings many had distinct experiences... it was certain that a Higher Consciousness had descended on earth...

Sri Aurobindo and The Mother went inside.

Immediately Datta was inspired. In that silence she spoke:
‘The Lord has descended into the physical today.’
Datta evidently spoke in a mood of ecstasy. But what she said has been recorded in different ways by some of those present there.”

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Misrepresentations:

Thus, it is not a fact that on 24-11-1926, Krishna’s supramental force had descended on earth and assumed a human form.

As Sri Aurobindo has told, Krishna’s force that descended on earth on 24-11-1926 was not a supramental force; it was the descent of the Overmind force. Its purpose was preparing the earth and the atmosphere for the Descent of the Supermind, which took place on 29-02-1056. The force of Krishna was NOT and NEVER the supramental force, as claimed by writer of the article, Shankarlal, a follower of Guru Siyag. That is the first misrepresentation.

Secondly it has been told in the concerned article that on 24-11-1926, Krishna’s force assumed a human form. However, Sri Aurobindo stated: “It was the descent of Krishna into physical”.

Neither He nor The Mother, nor any of the disciples did ever state that Krishna’s force assumed a human form. None of Them did ever state that Krishna was reborn in a human shape. And that was never necessary for Their Work : The Supramental Descent and Transformation. The descent of Krishna into the physical does not mean the assuming of a human form; it means the descent into the physical consciousness on earth, for it’s preparation for it’s further evolution.
In fact, virtually the work of the descended overmind consciousness of Krishna was over, when the Supramental Consciousness descended on earth on 29-02-1956. Thus, that Sri Aurobindo stated that Krishna’s consciousness assumed a human form was the second misrepresentation.

Thirdly, neither Sri Aurobindo nor The Mother had ever said that Their endeavour would cause the descent of any Chosen One on earth. They aimed for the Supramental descent and transformation and creation, after which Sri Aurobindo himself will be born as the first supramental baing in the first supramental body. And in the mean time there wil be no Chosen One. In Their entire literature, there is NO such statement. Thus, speaking of the Chosen One is the third misrepresentation.

With reference to The Mother’s experiences on 27th November 1968 and the 1st November 1968, what the writer has stated we will see below.

It is said that on the Ist Janusry 1969, Guru Siyag “was engulfed in the divine light of the supramental force, changing his life forever. In the distant coastal town of Pondichery in southern India, Mother, who was always connected with cosmic consciousness, instantly received the vibrations of this momentous happening. instantly received the vibrations of this momentous happening. She simply said her own mission was complete, as Krishna’s supramental force had become active that day.”

The Mother has never said so — never has She declared that Her mission was complete. Her mission will be complete only when the Supramental Manifestation will be visibly realised on earth. And that will be, for She has assured us of that. To say that The Mother’s mission was complete, because of some realization by Guru Siyag, is a statement unsupported by any saying or writing by The Mother or by any of Her closest disciples like Nolinida, Champakla, Amalkiran, Madhav Pandit, Satprem or any body else. It has no basis at all. I am not stating Guru Siyag did not have the experiences — he might have the experiences, but their relationship with The Mother’s experiences is unfounded.

And the Supramental force became active on 29th February 1956 and not on ISt January 1969. A new consciousness — the Superman Consciousness — desended on that day. What happened on that day was that the suparemantal force — not the One that descended on 24-11-1926 — came closer to us , through The Mother. What happened on 1st January 1969 was not the Last and Final step taken by The Mother — and we refer to Her sayings or writings, NONE ELSE had spoken of coming face to face with the Superman Consciousness at that time.

Thus, to say that being conscious of some experience by Guru Siyag, The Mother said that Her mission was complete, is the fourth misrepresentation.

It is said that on the Ist Janusry 1969, Guru Siyag “was engulfed in the divine light of the supramental force, changing his life forever. In the distant coastal town of Pondichery in southern India, Mother, who was always connected with cosmic consciousness, instantly received the vibrations of this momentous happening. instantly received the vibrations of this momentous happening. She simply said her own mission was complete, as Krishna’s supramental force had become active that day.”

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One Man’s Perfection

Even if the struggling world is left outside
One man's perfection still can save the world.
There is won a new proximity to the skies,
A first betrothal of the Earth to Heaven,
A deep concordat between Truth and Life:
A camp of God is pitched in human time.
[Savitri: Bk VII, Co V]

“One man” does not mean the so-called Chosen One. It refers to anyone, who can attain perfection. Sri Aurobindo or The Mother did not refer this line for any Chosen Guru. In fact, in Their system of spirituality, there is no other Guru — there is no traditional Guruvaada.
Sri Aurobindo has promised here — every human has the inherent capacity to rise to a spiritual height and integral perfection, by which the world at large — this struggling world — will be saved.

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No Prophecy

Sri Aurobindo’s declaration on 24th November 1926 about the descent of the Consciousness of Krishna , the Overmind Consciousness, was NOT a prophecy. It was a statement of a spiritual fact, which occurred on that day. The descent of the Consciousness was in Himself. He, or The Mother, or any of the twenty-four disciples present there, did never make any prophecy about the birth or re-birth of Krishna in human form.

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Another similar claim

Even some followers of Satya Sai Baba had a similar claim. Let me quote from what was written by one by H.H. Swami Saiexposedananda :
Unsurprisingly, Sai devotees have seized on this as proof of Sai Baba's divinity and identity with God (Krishna) with no exception, given their belief that Sri Aurobindo was referring to the Baba who was supposedly born on the previous day (Nov. 23). The main problem with this idea is that the followers of Aurobindo widely believe that he was referring to the descent of "Krishna consciousness" into himself, being that he had been in a meditative trance for a long while and had emerged out of said trance on November 24 to inform his followers of his revelation. As an interesting aside, Aurobindo largely retired from public interactions from that date onwards and preferred to spend long periods of time in seclusion while communicating with his followers via letters. Incorrigible Sai devotees seize on that too, presenting it as an example of Aurobindo's taking of voluntary retirement after handing the reins over to "God incarnate"!
[Posted by H.H. Swami Saiexposedananda # posted by Tusar N Mohapatra in Auroramirabilis on 20 October 2006.]

[In this connection, the reader may have a perusal of The Day of Victory, an article written by me in All Choice.]

In my article The Day of Victory, I tried to successfully reach the conclusion that the Descent of Krishna’s Consciousness has nothing to do with the birth of Satya Sai.

Similarly, it is utterly wrong and false to connect the happening of the 24th November 1926, as declared by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, with the birth of Guru Siyag. I have nothing to say against Guru Siyag and his spiritual programmes. However, I am completely assured that the sincere followers of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother do not have any necessity to delve into and dwell on such absurd claims one after another!

Falsehood will finally give place to Truth.
May the Day of Victory remain victorious for ever!

Barindranath Chaki
05-02-2009

[Simultaneously published by me in ASPIRATION, All Choice and Sulekha.]