The Samadhi itself, visited daily by hundreds in an attitude of devotion and prayer, seemed to testify to the reality of Sri Aurobindo’s continued Presence, bathed in the life-giving rays of the Everlasting Day. In Nirodbaran’s inspired language,
“Out of his Samadhi, a thousand flames seem to be mounting up and , lodged in our soul, burning in an ever rejuvenating fire, while His Presence enveloping and merging with and radiating from the Mother’s being and body is pervading the whole atmosphere. One can see His Presence, hear his footfalls, his rhythmic voice, ever vigilant, devoid of the encumbrance of the physical body.”
Still Nirod hears the Master’s whisper, “I am here, I am here”, and with the ear of faith we can hear the words too.
The mystic realization of his presence in our midst - for his nectarean presence and beneficence is not confined to the Samadhi environs or even the Ashram alone - is the Promise of preservation, liberation and transformation to humanity poised perilously on the edge of the precipice: the deep Abyss on one side, the steep ascent to truth on the other. In this phoenix hour, the hour of the unexpected, when the Asuric and Divine forces are fighting the battle of man’s future - the battle of Satyavan, the Soul of the World, Sri Aurobindo gives the all-suffering Word that his coming will not have been in vain, that his ministry, “ Sri Aurobindo’s Action”, is as pauseless and potent as ever.
“Come, O Creator Spirit, come,
And make within our hearts thy home;
To us thy grace celestial give,
Who of thy breathing move and love.”
(An extract from “The Mystery of 5th December 1950”, All India Magazine, December 1998)
Last night we (you and myself and some others) were together for quite a long time in the permanent dwelling of Sri Aurobindo which exists in the subtle physical (what Sri Aurobindo used to call the true physical). All that happened there ( much too long and complicated to be told) was, so to say, organized in order to express concretely the rapid movement with which the present transformation is going on; and Sri Aurobindo told you with a smile something like this: “Do you believe now?” It was as if he was evoking these three lines from Savitri :
“God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep;
For man shall not know the coming till its hour
And belief shall be not till the work is done.”
- The Mother (1963)
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(“The Flame Of Truth” edited by V.K. Gokak and V. Madhusudhan Reddy, Institute of Human Study, Hyderabad, India)
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