Into The New Body
The Mother, Mira
Alfassa, walked into the New Body on the 17th day
of November 1973. She left Her physical body and walked and entered into
the then newly formed Supramental Body. The World knew and told that She has
passed away.
It is said that The
Mother withdrew Herself on the 17th day of
November in 1973. However, we will see that in reality, in the
highest meaning and sense of the term 'reality', The Mother continues eternally — in a new body.
She wanted to walk into Her new supramental body along
with Her old body. But that did not and could not happen. The cooperation and
preparation that She deserved from the fellow human beings was not received.
Medically, The
Mother was ill. It was said that She was sick. Though, She was really
at the concluding stage of preparing and entering into a New Body, the
Supramental Body. Many others heard of it — some believed it. Some could
not believe it — some did not believe it.
On 24-03-1972, The
Mother told Sujata on the
New Body :
For
the first time,
early this morning, I saw myself: my body. I don't know whether it's the
supramental body or ... (what shall I say?) a transitional body, but I had a
completely new body, in the sense that it was sexless: it was neither woman nor
man.
It was
very white. But that could be because I have white skin, I don't know.
It was
very slender (gesture). Really lovely, a truly harmonious form.
That's the first time.
I hadn't
the least idea, the faintest notion what it would look like, nothing, and I saw
- I WAS like that, I had become like that. I thought Satprem should know, so he
can note it down.
I
don't know if I'll remember, that's why I am telling you. Because today is
Friday and I won't see him till tomorrow. This way, I am sure I won't forget.
You'll tell him, won't you?
Sujata: Yes,
Mother.
The next day, the 25th March 1972, Satprem had asked The Mother about the New
Body:
Sujata told me about the experience
you had the other day, that vision you had of your body, the transitional
body.
The
Mother replied:
Yes, I
WAS like that. It was me; I didn't look at myself in a mirror, I saw myself like
this (Mother bends her head to look at her body), I was ... I just was
like that.
That's
the first time. It was around four in the morning, I think. And perfectly
natural - I mean, I didn't look in a mirror, it felt perfectly natural……
[Mother's Agenda, vol. 13]
The Mother revealed Her Agenda and Her Work before
Satprem and Sujata, and they were told by Her of Her programme of
creation and preparation of the New Body as a very important step in the
Supramental Manifestation.
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K D Sethna has said in this matter:
We are aware that the Supramental Body
was already with Her, waiting to fuse with the human form She had worn for our
sake. We are aware also that the lengthy struggle she recently went through was
only the Yogic endeavour of the human form to open completely to the Supramental
Body. Perhaps this form did enough and its exalted agony was needed no more to
enable the Supramental Body to manifest. Perhaps that Body having assimilated
the achievement of the other and thereby gained sufficient density for its
subtle-physical substance, can now materialize itself on its own in a not too
distant future.
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What M P Pandit said is highly relevant
:
A new body was under formation, the supramental body, in
which She was to take Her embodiment as the end-result of the transformation of
this body. The body was being prepared. She gave in "Notes on the Way"
descriptions of this body, described how it looked. And about a year ago, She
told someone, "I am trying to fuse this material body into that body but I have
not been able to get the clue." She said, "Nobody on earth has tried this, the
secret is not given to me. On that point, She said, there was no help from
above. She was searching.
Thereafter ……… one day it flashed to
me that as soon as that luminous body was ready, the Mother would just walk into
it without dying, "without dying" means not necessarily keeping the body, but
without the gap in consciousness; keeping up the continuity of the personality,
She would just cross in to that luminous body. It just flashed, and the way it
came I thought it was more than just an idea: I noted it down in my diary. I
looked up it the other day, it was dated the 24th of July
1973. I did not
think it wise to speak of it to people except in my closest circle, which I did…
…
Then on the morning of 17th November at about
nine o'clock, a particular friend of mine — he has a certain grounding in occult
experience, occult knowledge, and normally when we meet we exchange notes — told
me, "I have seen the Mother's body of light." I got interested. "The new body is
full of light but it is not dense enough to function is earth conditions. It is
there, and as I was looking at it I got the feeling that the Mother would enter
this body the moment it became dense enough to stand and function in the earth
atmosphere, seen or unseen. But there is no question of revival of the material
body." And he added, "Those who are capable of seeing the Mother's halo, aura,
they will be able to see that luminous body." It confirmed what I had perceived
some four month's earlier; I told him as much.
That evening at 7-25 p.m., as you all
know, the Mother withdrew from her body. They say the cause was heart failure,
but let me tell you the heart failure was not the cause, the heart failure was
the result of her withdrawal. She had decided, the moment things were ready
she walked into that body.
She has not passed away, She has just
changed her body. Not changed in the manner of the Gita
— soul changing bodies — consciously ; keeping the full personality she has gone
into that body. And, as it was revealed to me.…, she will function in that body,
work through those instruments who are open to her, expedite the remaining work — the
working out of the consequences — but her activity will not be confined to
the Ashram or to Auroville; for her the whole world is her
Ashram. As I was led to put it on radio the next day, "The
sea of Love that is the Mother swells into an
ocean": not a perception, not an idea, not an image,
but an experience. [Underlines are mine.]
A divine possibility had to change its course due
to the lack of preparation and consequent non-co-operation on the part of
Man. The negative force and will prevailed for the time
being and the Destiny of Mankind and the Evolution had to have a different
Course. When the Old Form could not walk into the Supramental Body, a New Course
was taken by the divine possibility — The
Mother entered into the New Body.
The
Mother, in Her subtle body, walked
into the New Body. That was the triumph of which the mankind did not know. She
is continuing Her work of the Supramental Manifestation and Transformation
through those instruments who are open to Her, throughout the world and Her
activity or Her Presence will not be bound
by any spatial limitation. Her work is now for the entire world and for the
entire humanity and is to be carried out throughout the world.
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Satprem had a great experience on the next day, on
18th November
1973, which assured him that Mother's Work is done, and the inevitable
New
World is now, here, on
earth. He experienced: The whole world
was ringing in a torrent of rapturous, irresistible, triumphant joy .
Satprem narrates his experience:
On
that November 18,
1973, she
said something. I was stunned, aching from head to toe amid those hundreds and
thousands of people staring at a "dead body." The fans were droning, the neon
lights were glaring; there was a scent of incense and jasmine in the air; they
were making her coffin with all dispatch. But my heart was filled with such an
enormous "This-is-not-possible," as if the entire earth and all the sorrowful
men of this earth were crying out in my heart. So then, this was the "end," as
it always was - as at Thebes and Babylon and Buchenwald. It was the end. And we start all
over again. It was so overwhelmingly not-possible. Never, ever will I go through
it again. Never, ever will there be "another time" with its sorrow and prayers
and fruitless pain of being. There were a thousand men in my heart, all alike,
who had waited and waited for THAT MOMENT. And there was no moment. We will have
to come again in another life and learn again about Euclid and the law of
gravity, and sorrow and "happiness" - and end up in a hole again? I was so
broken, shattered on that November 18 - there was only a splitting headache and
a blank look staring and staring at that procession of dead people. But,
suddenly, I had the most stupendous experience of my life. I who had so much
complained to Mother of never having any "experience"! I was in no condition to
have an experience, or concentrate or pray, or will anything - I was nothing but
a headache, an aching body, a kind of frightful nonentity staring at a small
white form. An unintelligible masquerade. It was false, screamingly false. A
dream. Not real.
All of life was
not-real.
Then she lifted me in her arms. She
lifted me above my headache, lifted me above that crowd, above all those
meaningless little bodies. And I was in a sound-burst. I entered a stupendous
peal of bells - vast as the universe, exceeding all universes, all lives, all
bodies, and yet WITHIN - A colossal ringing that swept away the worlds, swept
away the pains, swept away the whys and the hows; I was one with that formidable
SOUND ringing over the universe:
NO OBSTACLE, NOTHING WILL STOP
NO OBSTACLE, NOTHING WILL STOP
NO OBSTACLE, NOTHING WILL STOP ...
... ringing and ringing. The whole
world was ringing in a torrent of rapturous, irresistible, triumphant joy.
NOTHING WILL STOP.... It was the inevitable new world.
Here.
Done.
My whole
body was trembling. [Mother's Agenda, vol. 13]
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The spiritual journey of Man has a revolutionary and evolutionary
turning since Sri
Aurobindo and
The
Mother. They have
given Spirituality a completely new turn and definition, a completely new
purpose and value.
Sri
Aurobindo
and
The
Mother came to earth in order to
lead the earthly Evolution beyond Man, beyond all the imperfections and
incompleteness of Man, beyond all the sorrows and miseries of Man, beyond Death
: and They have, jointly, advanced and almost completed Their Task to a very
great extent. Only what They have done has to be finished — this is the Task
that has to be taken up by some of the followers of Sri
Aurobindo
and
The
Mother, and it will surely be
further taken up and advanced by some. What They have done in Their individual
lives has to be extended to the collective life.
Sri Aurobindo has said :
A divine life in a divine body is the
formula of the ideal that we envisage. But what will be the divine body? What
will be the nature of this body, its structure, the principle of its activity,
the perfection that distinguishes it from the limited and imperfect physicality
within which we are now bound? … … …
The
process of the evolution upon earth has been slow and tardy– what principle must
intervene if there is to be a transformation, a progressive or sudden change?
It is
indeed as a result of our evolution that we arrive at the possibility of this
transformation. As Nature has evolved beyond Matter and manifested Life, beyond
Life and manifested Mind, so she must evolve beyond Mind and manifest a
consciousness and power of our existence, free from the imperfection and
limitation of our mental existence, a supramental or truth-consciousness and
able to develop the power and perfection of the spirit … … …
Into
that truth [supramental] we shall be freed and it will transform mind and life
and body. Light and bliss and beauty and a perfection of the spontaneous right
action of all the being are there as native powers of the supramental
truth-consciousness and these will in their very nature transform mind and life
and body even here upon earth into a manifestation of the truth-conscious
spirit… … … [Supramental Manifestation]
The most essential aspect of the Work of the
Supramental Descent and Transformation has been realized and advanced by
Sri
Aurobindo
and
The
Mother.
Sri
Aurobindo
and
The
Mother aimed at and worked for a
Descent, on earth, of the Supramental Consciousness, what He otherwise named as
Truth Consciousness. They declared that Their main aim and objective was to
manifest on earth the principle of Truth-Consciousness, of the Supramental
Consciousness on earth, and set it on earth as a basic principle that will
operate and function here and transform the human life into a divine life,
progressively and step by step. And the divine life is defined by Them as a life
where the main principle in function and operation is the principle of
Supermind, while at present the main principle is Mind. They pointed out that no
other power can bring the transformation except the Supramental Consciousness
and Force. For more than fifty thousand years man has endeavoured to make
perfect and flawless himself, his life and existence and his environment, but he
has failed for the reason that all his endeavours came from an inferior power,
the power of Mind. Mind is not a power of Truth — it is an indirect derivation
from Truth, covered by pulls of flesh and upheavals from the vital forces and
the smokes of the inconscience.
In the course of earthly evolution of Man, there
were previous manifestations from the Supreme consciousness in order to cause
from the Highest heights the Descent of the highest power suitable for the
mankind at those times, and establish them on earth. Sri Rama came with the ideal of the enlightened
mind, and Sri Krishna manifested the
Overmind consciousness and revealed for us the aspect of Ananda of the Supreme.
Thereafter, we find the Buddha who
taught us the Way of Nirvana to transcend beyond the mental consciousness. And
then, the next step required was / is the descent and manifestation of the
Supramental Consciousness and Force. Sri
Aurobindo took the Leadership, and along with The Mother, He did all that He had to do. With
the Sacrifice of His body, He caused to get manifested the Mind of Light in
The Mother, which the first effect of
the Descent of the Supermind. This has to be done not for a course of an
individual realization and perfection, but the whole earth and, at least,
especially for a community open to the Supreme Consciousness. And
Sri
Aurobindo
and
The
Mother wanted us to make efforts
to progress towards the Supramentalization.
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Sri Aurobindo told The
Mother that She had to stay and complete the Work. Indeed, the entire
responsibility of the Supramental Manifestation and of the Work for having a
Divine Body came upon The Mother, when
Sri Aurobindo passed away and the Mind
of Light manifested in Her.
As we know, due to The
Mother's unique, intense and
unparalleled Endeavours, the
Supramental Consciousness finally descended on earth on 29th February 1956. I am again quoting below the oft-quoted
declaration by The Mother :
First Supramental Manifestation
(During the common meditation on
Wednesday
The 29th February 1956)
This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material,
was 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.
And then the supramental Light and Force and
Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow.
The Mother spoke of the New Body. It was around 1972.
The New Supramental Body was already there. Only, The Mother was trying unveil the Way for entering
that Body. She expressed that She will walk into That Body and merge the gross
physical body into That Body. She said: I am trying to fuse this material body
into that body but I have not been able to get the clue. … Nobody on earth has
tried this, the secret is not given to me.
But Events
were different, and Her entire Being had to leave the physical body. And then
She has entered the New Body, which is eternal and immortal, which is very near
to earthly consciousness.
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The Eternal Mother shows Her example before all of us — the human
race — and given us the Task and the Aim : the Supramental Transformation.
Out of Man, the
Superman is to manifest. And Man is the basis for the advent of the Superman. He
shall have to become the Superman. The purpose of the appearance of man must now
be fulfilled. Man must surpass himself for that. Man has to collaborate with
the Eternal Mother and
the Master for the new
Evolution, or the evolutionary forces will ignore him and go beyond him and find
out its own means.
Sri Aurobindo has said :
A new humanity means for us the
appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle
of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge
but even in its knowledge bound to the ignorance, a seeker after Light but not
its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not
yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance.
Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light,
a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and
manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its
mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At
its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new
race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the
leaders of the evolution in earth-nature. … … …
The first gleamings of the new Light
would carry in themselves the seed of its highest flamings; even in the first
beginnings, the certainty of their topmost powers would be there; for this is
the constant story of each evolutionary emergence: the principle of its highest
perfection lies concealed in the involution which precedes and necessitates the
evolution of the secret principle.
The Mother is waiting for us. In
order to complete the Task of the Supramental Change and bring in the
Supramental Race, there should be, at first, a "new humanity" — in the Words of
Sri Aurobindo. That is the Aim now,
before all of us.
The Mother is presiding over the
entire Wrok of the Transformation. Of the birth of the New World, of the Advent
of the New Species, the Supramental Race.
Barindranath Chaki
17-11-2009
[Thoroughly revised from two of my previous writings
published earlier.]
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