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Mother and Sri Aurobindo Annual Subscription : Rs 150.00 Single Copy : Rs Publication Details S´raddha- Frequency of publication : Quarterly. Published on 15 August, 24 November, 21 February, A Quarterly devoted to an exposition of the teachings of 24 April. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo Annual Subscription : Rs 150.00 Single copy : Rs. 50.00 Those wishing to have the journal mailed to them may please send an additional Rs. 100.00 Annual Subscription for soft copy of the journal : Rs.150.00 Vol.6 No.2 For overseas readers : Annual subscription :US$ 45 inclusive of postal and bank charges for hard copy; US$ 20 for soft copy All payments to be made in favour of Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social Sciences All Rights Reserved No matter appearing in this journal or part thereof may be reproduced or translated, in any form, without the written permission of the publishers except for short extracts as quotations. Views expressed by the authors are not necessarily those of the journal. Readers with different viewpoints are requested to write direct to the contributors. Editor, S´raddha-, will be pleased to provide the necessary contact details. All correspondence may be addressed to 24 November, 2014 S´raddha- Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 8 Shakespeare Sarani Kolkata 700 071 Editor: Arup Basu Phone: 98302 58723 E-mail : [email protected] , [email protected] Published by Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social Sciences Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 8 Shakespeare Sarani Kolkata700071 Phone : 2282 3057, 2282 2162, 2282 1819 Printed by Basab Chattopadhyaya Shilalipi Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 16 A Tamer Lane Kolkata 700 009 8 Shakespeare Sarani • Kolkata 700 071 Phone 0336540 5390 / 98360 37601 as a result of which only the Supramental could be irrevocably established in the physical consciousness’ (Ibid). ‘We know from ‘Notes on the Way’ over several years there was the growing infusion of her cells with the light of the Supramental Body already poised on the subtle-physical plane’(Amal Kiran, The Mother’s Victory, Mother India, Editorial Jan, 1974). In one of her experiences, she says, ‘The body consciousness has become individualised and at the same time independent, which means that it November is a month of many conflicting moods. There is the joy, the can enter into other bodies and feel quite at ease there.’ This meant that ‘even certitude of the coming victory arising out of the descent of the Overmind if she left her body, the work would not be spoilt, there would be no waste. The Consciousness in Sri Aurobindo’s own physical sheath, that of the earth- work would continue’ (Kireet Joshi, Jyoti Madhok, Ibid). She continues ‘... the consciousness or the world of Matter – ‘one more step towards Eternity’ - and physical is CAPABLE of receiving the higher Light, the Truth, the true the forward-striving hope and the ultimate aim of a march towards the evolution Consciousness, and of ma-ni-festing it. ...That was the work Sri Aurobindo had of humanity to a higher level as can be seen from the special task specifically given me. ... The object to be accomplished was the change in the physical assigned to the Mother by The Master after his voluntary withdrawal from the consciousness, that the change in the physical appearance was a secondary physical plane viz. to ‘FIX the supramental consciousness in the physical consequence; that would be the last thing to change’... She reiterated ‘... The important thing is this change in the CONSCIOUSNESS – which has now consciousness permanently, so that the body may be able to manifest the taken place. All the rest is a consequence. The thing is DONE. This (the body) Supermind’ (Kireet Joshi and Jyoti Madhok, But it is done ...). On the other is a secondary consequence’(Ibid). hand, there is also the deep anguish, the utter helpnessness and acute pain a Therefore for us, children of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, to grieve because child feels at the loss of its Mother in the material world, its one and only the Mother has merely left her physical frame is an insult to her. How often has exclusive support in this world. she told us that if we really want to feel her living Presence, we should withdraw But we poor little human beings, always enclosed in our ‘deathbound littleness’ deep within ourselves and concentrate in our inmost self, our true soul. Only can rarely free ourselves from this bondage and raise ourselves to ‘our forgotten then will we find there her Presence, constant, loving and glowing, as active as immortal vastnesses’ when the situation so demands. We feel as orphans, are ever. And if the call is sincere and the aspiration fixed and unfailing, Her help bewildered and are overtaken by the canker of doubt that starts sowing its will always be there. insidious roots in our mind – we begin to ask ourselves what then happens to Let us end this discussion on the significance and meaning of the Mother’s the divinisation of the body, of the earth’s supramentalisation? withdrawal from the physical body in the luminous and succinct words of Nolini- We must remember that ‘When Sri Aurobindo left his body, the accumulated da. result of all his physical consciousness was transmitted to the Mother’s body’ (Ibid). The ‘Mind of Light’ i.e. ‘the permanent reception of the Supramental ‘Mother has prepared for us her new body in the inner world, in the subtle Light by the physical mind’ got immediately established in the Mother, the only physical which is as living and tangible as her physical body even though not adhar present capable of receiving the descent of this stupendous Supramental as concrete. ... That body she has built up in her long arduous labours, built Force, and thus there was no waste. ‘But now apart from the Mother’s body, up in a complete form and left with us and with humanity. ... It is there living there was no other body which was so developed that it could receive, if the and glorious in its beauty and power and is still at work within us, and around Mother left her body, the accumulated result of her physical consciousness. us in the world, incessantly, towards the final consummation of its material This was a formidable problem ... This task the Mother accomplished after a embodiment. ... What is expected of us is to see this golden Mother within long and arduous journey, during which she had to find the way by which the us and try to become, as she always wanted, her golden children, within and without’ (Complete Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta, vol.5, pp.88-9). Supermind could enter directly into the physical mind so that it could be silenced and go further still to touch the mind of matter, the material mind – corporeal No sooner matter for the November issue of S´raddha was being readied to mind – to transform it, to transform the mind of cells, and to supramentalise it, be despatched to the printer than the sad news arrived of the passing away of Sri Kireet Joshi at the Ashram in Pondicherry where he had relocated from On one of my many visits to the Ashram in Pondicherry, I once asked Gujarat during the last 5/6 years. Aged 83 and ailing for some time, he passed Arindam-da (the late Arabinda Basu), another great interpreter of the teachings away peacefully in the early hours of Sunday 14 September. He was an ardent of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, whom I should refer to if there was any devotee and a true child of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Recruited to the problem in my understanding of Sri Aurobindo’s thoughts. He always advised Indian Administrative Service (IAS), he gave up his job in 1956 and moved to me to go back to the original works and if I still felt uncertain, to seek for the Pondicherry at the young age of 25 to devote himself to the study and practice answer in the writings of Nolini-da (Nolini Kanta Gupta). Then pausing for a of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. During his 20 years’ stay while, he said there were two other persons who could also offer a very safe in Pondicherry, he taught philosophy and psychology at the Sri Aurobindo guidance, viz. Jugal and Kireet. This comment coming from such a person like International Centre of Education (SAICE), and took part in various educational Arindam-da, who himself had exceptionally high standards of excellence and experiments under the direct guidance of the Mother. In 1976 he moved to was extremely fastidious and chary of giving such certificates, goes to show in Delhi to resume his political career, successively serving as the Education Adviser what high esteem he held these two sadhaks. in the Ministry of Education, Special Secretary to the Govt. of India, Member- Since taking over as editor of S´raddha I had the good fortune of meeting Secretary of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), Member- him a number of times at the CARE Nursing Home where he was staying, Secretary of Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratisthan and the Vice-Chairman of the after he moved to Pondicherry. He was always welcoming and humble and UNESCO Institute of Education, Hamburg. From 1999-2004, he served as the gracious, qualities that one rarely comes across in such learned people because Chairman of Auroville Foundation, and of the ICPR from 2000-06. He later normally they have a very big ego. I was fortunate to hear that he liked our joined as Editorial Fellow of the Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy publication very much and there were even times when he rang me up in Kolkata and Culture (PHISPC).
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