Q: Do you not refer to the Mother (our Mother) in your book “The Mother”?
A: Yes
Q: Is she not the “Individual Divine Mother who has embodied the power of these two vaster ways of existence – Transcendent and Universal?”
A: Yes
Q: Has she not descended here (amongst us) into Darkness and Falsehood and Error and Death in her deep and great love for us?
A: Yes
Q: There are many who hold the view that she was human but now embodies the Divine Mother and her ‘Prayers’, they hold, explain this view, but, to my mental conception, to my psychic feeling, she is the Divine Mother who has consented to put on her the cloak of obscurity and suffering and ignorance so that she can effectively lead us - human beings – to Knowledge and Bliss and Ananda and to the Supreme Lord.
I also conceive that her ‘Prayers’ are meant to show us –the aspiring psychic – how to pray to the Divine. Am I right?
A: Yes. The Divine puts on an appearance of humanity, assumes the outward human nature in order to tread the path and show it to human beings, but does not cease to be the Divine. It is a manifestation that takes place, a manifestation of a growing Divine consciousness, not human turning into divine. The Mother was inwardly above the human even in childhood. So the view held by “many” is erroneous.
(Sri Aurobindo, “Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on The Mother”, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry, 1953)
A: Yes
Q: Is she not the “Individual Divine Mother who has embodied the power of these two vaster ways of existence – Transcendent and Universal?”
A: Yes
Q: Has she not descended here (amongst us) into Darkness and Falsehood and Error and Death in her deep and great love for us?
A: Yes
Q: There are many who hold the view that she was human but now embodies the Divine Mother and her ‘Prayers’, they hold, explain this view, but, to my mental conception, to my psychic feeling, she is the Divine Mother who has consented to put on her the cloak of obscurity and suffering and ignorance so that she can effectively lead us - human beings – to Knowledge and Bliss and Ananda and to the Supreme Lord.
I also conceive that her ‘Prayers’ are meant to show us –the aspiring psychic – how to pray to the Divine. Am I right?
A: Yes. The Divine puts on an appearance of humanity, assumes the outward human nature in order to tread the path and show it to human beings, but does not cease to be the Divine. It is a manifestation that takes place, a manifestation of a growing Divine consciousness, not human turning into divine. The Mother was inwardly above the human even in childhood. So the view held by “many” is erroneous.
(Sri Aurobindo, “Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on The Mother”, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry, 1953)
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