Q: Do you not refer to
the Mother (our Mother) in your book, “The Mother”?
Sri Aurobindo: Yes.
Q: Is she not the
“Individual” Divine Mother who has embodied “the power of these two vaster ways
of her existence”―Transcendent and Universal?
Sri Aurobindo: Yes.
Q: Has she not
descended here (amongst us) into the Darkness and Falsehood and Error and Death
in her deep and great love for us?
Sri Aurobindo: Yes.
Q: There are many who
hold the view that she was human but now embodies the Divine Mother and her
“Prayers”, they say, 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.
Sri Aurobindo: 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.
Q: I also conceive that
the Mother’s “Prayers” are meant to show us―the aspiring psychic―how to pray to
the Divine.
Sri Aurobindo: Yes.
(SABCL, Volume 25, The
Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Puducherry)
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