Darshan Messages: 2011-15

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137th Birth Anniversary of THE MOTHER—21 February, 2015

On 21 February 2015 we celebrate the Mother’s 137th birth anniversary. The Mother's room at Sri Aurobindo Ashram will be open for Darshan for devotees on that day. There will also be a collective meditation in the Ashram from 6:00 to 6:30 am.


The Mother first met Sri Aurobindo in the year 1914. After their meeting, Sri Aurobindo said that he had never seen anywhere a self-surrender so absolute and unreserved as that of the Mother. After her final arrival at Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo entrusted the Mother with full material and spiritual charge of the Ashram. Under her guidance, which continues, the Ashram has grown into a large, many-faceted spiritual community. Everything in the Ashram is her creation; every initiative draws inspiration from her and moves towards fulfilling her vision.
Sri Aurobindo has revealed that the Mother has descended 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 may turn it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and suffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of her sublime Ananda.”

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SIDDHI DAY—NOVEMBER 24, 2014

November 24 is a very significant day for the devotees of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, as it marks the anniversary of the Siddhi Day—The Day of Victory—the descent of the Sri Krishna Consciousness or the Overmental Consciousness into the physical, which took place in the year 1926. This was the first decisive step towards the Supramental Manifestation which took place later in 1956.This year is the 88th anniversary of the event.

Of ‘Krishna’, Supermind’, ‘Overmind’ and the need of Descent of Overmental Consciousness, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother say: “Krishna is the immanent Divine, the Divine Presence in everyone and in all things. He is also, sovereignly, the aspect of Delight and Love of the Supreme; he is the smiling tenderness and the playful gaiety; he is at once the player, the play and all his playmates. … Thus to see Krishna means to find the inner Godhead, to play with Krishna means to be identified with the inner Godhead and to share in his consciousness.”—Sri Aurobindo

“Sri Aurobindo's work is a unique earth-transformation.

Above the mind there are several levels of conscious being, among which the really divine world is what Sri Aurobindo has called the Supermind, the world of the Truth. … It is the direct descent of the Supramental Consciousness and Power that alone can utterly re-create life in terms of the Spirit.”—The Mother “… Overmind power which is nearest to the supramental Truth-Consciousness and which is the first fountain of the creation of the Ignorance.”—Sri Aurobindo

The Card distributed in the Ashram on 24th November this year contains a Mantra from the Mother and an explanation from Sri Aurobindo on the principle of Mantra and Japa.

“Om – namo – bhagavate
Om – namo – bhagavate
Om – namo – bhagavate”
“The word is a sound expressive of the idea. In the supra-physical plane when an idea has to be realised, one can by repeating the word-expression of it, produce vibrations which prepare the mind for the realisation of the idea. That is the principle of the Mantra and of japa. One repeats the name of the Divine and the vibrations created in the consciousness prepare the realization of the Divine”. - Sri Aurobindo

“ To keep the consciousness awake you must set apart a certain time every day for concentration and remembering the Mother and keeping yourself in contact with us.”
- Sri Aurobindo

17 November 2012, The Mother's Mahasamadhi Day
The Mother left her physical body on 17th November in 1973. The Card distributed in the Ashram on 17th Nov this year, contains a beautiful message of the Mother on what should be the primary occupation of our being.

“Only one thing is absolutely indispensable: the will to discover and to realise [the truth of your being]. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think”.
– The Mother

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2011

05 Dec 2011, Sri Aurobindo's Mahasamadhi Day

24 Nov, The Siddhi Day

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.
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.'
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.
- The Mother (2 August 1961)

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