Mother Mira
The 21st day of February 2016 is
the 138th birthday anniversary of The Mother, Mira Alfassa, the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo. The Aspirants for
the Supramental Manifestation on earth will surely ascertain and reinforce
their aspiration on the birthday anniversary of The Mother. Today is the auspicious Day this
year : 21-02-2016.
Sri
Aurobindo, whom millions
throughout the world have regarded as an Incarnation of the Divine
Consciousness, had specifically pointed out that 'the One whom we adore as The Mother is the Divine Conscious-Force that dominates all existence' also descended and became manifest before us on earth. He
referred to Mira Alfassa, and millions on earth adore Her. She is the
Consciousness and Force of the Supreme.
Sri
Aurobindo has 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."
That
is why She is so valuable for the mankind and for the earth. "She is the
golden bridge ," [ Sri
Aurobindo : Savitri ]. 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.
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]
OOO
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 of the Child in us, in all
of us:
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.
And
let us remember always what She has told us to march ahead towards the Goal,
towards The New Horizon :
"Let
us advance always, without stopping, towards an always more complete
manifestation, an always more complete and higher consciousness."
OOO
Sri
Aurobindo has told:
"The
Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser triple
universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements of the Ignorance,
are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished substance, her
Nature-Body and Nature-force, and they exist because, moved by the mysterious
fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was there in the possibilities
of the Infinite, she has consented to the great sacrifice and has put on like a
mask the soul and forms of the Ignorance. But personally, too, she has stooped
to descend here into the Darkness that she may lead it to the Light, into the
Falsehood and Error that she may convert it to the Truth, into this Death that
she convert it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow
and suffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstacy of her sublime
Ananda. In her deep and great love for her children she has consented to put on
herself the cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and
torturing influences of the powers of the Darkness and the Falsehood, borne to
pass through the portals of the birth that is a death, taken upon herself the
pangs and sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus
alone could it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This
is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much
more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine
Mother.”
The
Mother told us about Sri Aurobindo :
Sri
Aurobindo came on earth from the Supreme to announce the manifestation of a new
race and a new world, the Supramental.
She also
said about Sri Aurobindo :
Man is
the creation of yesterday. Sri Aurobindo came to announce the creation of
tomorrow : the coming of the supramental being.
And
for this advent of the supramental being, Sri Aurobindo says that Man has to
ascend from Mind to various higher levels of Mind, and then to the Supermind.
Man has to go through the ways of Transformation. And when the human aspiration
rises to a height, then only Supermind can be approached.
OOO
The Mother is the Hope of Man, as Sri
Aurobindo is. And with Their Advent on earth, the new Possibility of a
divinized human race on earth has originated, the new Hope has been created.
And They have given us, the human beings, the Task for the Progress towards the
fulfillment of the possibility, of the hope — certainly with the guidance and
enlightenment from Them.
To eternal light and knowledge meant to rise,
Up from man's bare beginning is our climb;
Out of earth's heavy smallness we must break,
We must search our nature with spiritual fire:
An insect crawl precludes our glorious flight;
Our human state cradles the future god,
Our mortal frailty an immortal force.
OOO
A mightier race shall inhabit the mortal man's world.
On Nature's luminous tops, on the Spirit's ground,
The superman shall reign king of life,
Make earth almost the mate and peer of heaven
And lead toward God and truth man's ignorant earth
And lift towards godhead his mortality.
[Sri Aurobindo: Savitri]
OOO
The Mother, Mira Alfassa, the spiritual
collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, has Her Work for
all of us, the mankind, and for this earth, the abode of ours - the Advent of
the supramental consciousness, of the supramental beings on Earth. That is the
Work to be done here on Earth - the Work of the greatest importance -
furthering the earthly Evolution beyond the humankind, beyond the human
imperfection and ignorance and sufferings, bringing in a total transformation
of the human beings into the gnostic beings, the supramental beings.
The Earth is a field of Evolution. The Earth has seen an Evolution from the
cell, that was the first manifestation of life, to the human beings, the Homo
Sapiens; and it is now becoming the field of an Evolution from the human beings
to the supramental beings. About this, however, the human beings in general may
not be as yet aware or conscious. Evolution, at first, was the manifestation of
Life in Matter, and then it manifested Homo Neanderthals and the Homo Sapiens -
the human beings, as Mind descended into Life and Matter, into the
earth-atmosphere. Time has come now for going beyond Mind.
Man is conscious, but to a very small extent. Of course, in Man, the dreamer
and the seeker is there; the further possibility is there in him. There have
been a few Leaders among us and they are regarded as the Manifestations of the
Divine among us: They have spoken of Nirvana, Moksha, Liberation and the
Kingdom of God. They have also accepted death and decay and sufferings like all
of us, out of Their Love for us. The Way They found for us was the way of
escape from this worldly manifestation. A few individual's nirvana or moksha or
journey to the Kingdom of God could not solve the problems of the remaining
billions of human beings that remained on earth. As a whole, the humanity has
remained far away from Light and Joy and Peace and deathlessness, from
Perfection and Consciousness that can give Victory and Conquest.
Man is not the last thing in Evolution on earth. He has to surpass himself and
grow and become a higher being. This is the message of Sri Aurobindo
and The Mother.
Sri Aurobindo has said:
Man is a transitional being; he is not final....The Step from man to
superman is the next approaching achievement in earth's evolution. It is
inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the
logic of Nature's process. [The Hour of God, page 7]
So far, the earth has been a vale of tears, a vale of owes and sorrows and
sufferings, and also a vale of bloodshed and cruelty, of destructions and
devastations and Death, of falls and failures and frustrations, of fights and
feuds, of fears and foes. We are all sitting upon a heap of bombs - atomic or
non-atomic, real or virtual. Human beings have become absolutely selfish and
egoistic. Religions have turned into the reasons for battles, group-wars and
terrorism. Political institutions and activities are grossly infected by crimes
and corruptions. Love is lost. Truth is lost and hidden. Light is engulfed in
Darkness.
This cannot be the Earth that the Divine, the Supreme, has designed and dreamed
to manifest. The earth can be and has to be transformed into Abode of God. Man
has to change himself and the earth atmosphere. Man has to change this world,
in all aspects, in totality, integrally.
Sri Aurobindo has said:
Man in himself a little more than an ambitious nothing. He is a
littleness that reaches to a wideness and grandeur that are beyond him, a dwarf
enamoured of the heights. His mind is a dark ray in the splendours of the
Universal Mind. His life is a striving, exulting, suffering, an eager
passion-tossed and sorrow-stricken or a blindly and dumbly longing petty moment
of the universal Life. His body is labouring perishable speck in the material
universe. This cannot be the mysterious upward surge of Nature.
[The Hour of God, page 8]
The base of this worldly manifestation, as we know, is Matter, which appears to
us to be inconscient, gross, inert, without Life or Mind. However, Matter, as Sri
Aurobindo has stated, is the self-willed involution of the
Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, the Superconscient Spirit, the Supreme. The
Divine has Himself become Matter, as the ultimate process of an Involution.
Evolution is the urge, ‘the upward surge' of the involved Divinity in Nature -
to express and manifest Itself in this and as this evolving world.
Sri Aurobindo has further said:
In every particle, atom, molecule, cell of Matter there lives hidden
and works unknown all the Omniscience of the Eternal and all the Omnipotence of
the Infinite.
[The Hour of God, page 14]
He has also said:
Involution of a Superconscient Spirit in inconscient Matter is the
secret of this visible and apparent world and the evolution of this
Superconscient out of inconscient Nature is the key-world of the earth's
riddle. Earth-life is the self-chosen habitation of a great divinity and his
aeonic will is to change it from a blind prison into his splendid mansion and
high heaven-reaching temple.
[The Hour of God, page 17]
Thus, it is an inevitable conclusion that the earth-nature and the
circumstances on earth must change. Evolution cannot stop and be finalized
after creating a being, the human being, whose nature is quite insufficient and
insignificant and contrary to what is involved: the Superconscient. So, Man has
to grow as an expression of the Divine. Man has to grow into something that is
beyond his present state : half-conscious, ignorant, mortal and enslaved to the
lower nature.
Sri Aurobindo has again said :
There is something beyond, something that mankind shall be; it is seen
now only in broken glimpses through rifts in the broken walls of limitations
that deny its possibility and existence. An immortal soul is there somewhere
within him and upholds the soul-continuity if his nature. But this greater
Spirit is obstructed from descent by the hard lid of his constructed
personality; and that inner luminous soul is wrapped, stifled, oppressed in
dense outer coatings.
[The Hour of God, page 8]
Sri Aurobindo has further said:
The earth-law has to be changed and a new atmosphere has to be created.
[Evenings talks with Sri Aurobindo by A B Purani, page 148]
Body has been seen, almost always, as a barrier for spiritual sadhana and
progress. Sri Aurobindo has spoken of this as follows:
In the past, the body was regarded by the spiritual seekers rather as
an obstacle, as something to be overcome as discarded, than as an instrument of
spiritual perfection and a field of spiritual change. It has been condemned as
a grossness of Matter, as an insuperable impediment, and the limitations of the
body as something unchangeable, making transformation impossible. [The
Supramental Manifestation, page 7]
But now, in the New Way of the Supramental Transformation, the role of the body
is essential and of high importance. The secret of the Change lies here, in the
body. Man has to surpass all his imperfections and shortcomings and become the
supramental being. The earth shall grow into an abode of the supramental
consciousness. That way only, the humankind can conquer all his sufferings,
fears and shortcomings, all his imperfections, inconscience and ignorance, and
even Death. That is the Task ahead. That is the Work to be done. Conquest of
Death - that is the Aim. "Even the body shall remember God,"
said Sri Aurobindo [in Savitri], and thus shall body conquer
Death and Darkness and Ignorance.
OOOO
Should we continue for ever to be as imperfect and ignorant and mortal as we
are now? Should we ever remain enslaved to Tamas and Darkness and Inconscience,
to Death, to division and disorder and chaos? Should our existence for ever be
meaningless, purposeless? Should our cycles of birth and death be aimless,
meaningless? Should our existence remain for ever subject to sorrow and
sufferings? Should always there be the continuance of the problems of warfare
and battle, terrorism and bloodshed, of the innocent killings of the religious
intolerance and atrocities, of the false and narrow and ignorant social rules,
regulations, thoughts and ideologies on earth?
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother have answered
with an emphatic no. There shall come a change - as certain as the sunrise. And
there is a Way - as true as the sunlight. And there is a Hope - as sure as the
Dawn - for all of us who are willing to collaborate and cooperate with the
Divine, with Truth.
As we know, Sri Aurobindo departed after effecting the Descent
of the supramental consciousness and force on and in His Person. The Mother
took up the thread by bringing down the supramental consciousness on earth. She
continued with after the Descent on earth for a progressive realization of the
supramentalized manhood - supermanhood - by Man.
The Teaching
of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo has the clues of the
Transformation of man into superman, of the manifestation of the supramental
consciousness on earth.
The Eternal
Mother holds the secret, the key.
OOO
The
Mother Mira, who manifested the Mahashakti, was the Person who caused the
Descent of the Supramental Principle on earth on the 29th February 1956. The
purpose of this Supramental Descent was to make possible the ascending journey
of Man to Supermanhood.
I seek
to quote the oft-quoted statement from the Mother:
FIRST SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION
(During the common meditation on Wednesday
The
29th February 1956)
This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present
amongst you. I had the form of a living gold, bigger than the universe, and I
was facing a huge and massive golden door, which separated the world from the
Divine. As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of
consciousness, that ‘the time has come', and lifting with both hands a mighty
golden hammer I struck one blow on the door and the door was shattered to
pieces. Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon
earth in an uninterrupted flow.
This
was, and is, the purpose of the coming of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on earth
: the Manifestation of the Supramental Consciousness on earth, so that Man can
progressively change himself into the Superman, the Supramental Being. By the
half-lit and diminished principle of Mind, Man can rise from the animalhood to
a great extent, but cannot attain Perfection, nor can he become the Supramental
Being and cause an end to his miseries and his ignorance, inconscience,
incapacities and death.
OOO
In interpreting the message “Truth or
Abyss,” The
Mother further said :
The message is only for those who are still asleep and quite satisfied
with their sleep.
The majority of the mankind is still asleep, asleep in
darkness and ignorance with satisfaction. Man is still imprisoned with the
ignorant senses and the blind and limited thoughts and ideas, with no
aspiration or hope, no light or vision, no seeking, satisfied with the
animal indulgences and the limited ego,
with death and darkness and division.
We shall have to aspire and endeavor and prepare
ourselves for the Ascent. We should no more remain satisfied with our present
state of being immersed in gross indulgence and inner blindness and blocked
consciousness, of being involved with hatred and jealousy and greed and
violence, of being conquered by darkness and ignorance and death. This is the
Truth for us.
Let us accept the Truth and thereby open the gates of
great possibilities.
The Mother says : This wonderful world of delight waiting at our gates
for our call, to come down upon earth…
We must accept this Truth. Or else, the Abyss is sure.
To stop remaining the gross animal man, immersed in darkness and
falsehood and hatred and violence, this Truth is the desireable way. Our Aspiration should be for the Ascent.
Let us
remember The Mother and march towards the Goal — the Ascent, the Supramental
Becoming.
Barindranath
Chaki
21-02-2016
