(The Mother,
with the first Prime Minister of Independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru, Kamaraj
Nadar, Indira Gandhi, and Lal Bahadur Shastri, 1955.)
The Mother Says:
"One day - every
day I used to meditate with Sri Aurobindo: he used to sit on one side of a
table and I on the other, on the veranda - and one day in this way, in
meditation, I entered (how to put it?...), I went up very high, entered very
deep or came out of myself (well, whatever one may say does not express what
happened, these are merely ways of speaking), I reached a place or a state of
consciousness from which I told Sri Aurobindo just casually and quite simply:
“India is free.” It was in 1920. Then he put to me a question: “How?” And I
answered him: “Without any fight, without a battle, without a revolution. The
English themselves will leave, for the condition of the world will be such that
they won’t be able to do anything else except go away."
(‘Questions and
Answers, 1953’, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1978, Published by Sri Aurobindo
Ashram, Puducherry)
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