AGENDA 1951-1960

Mother’s Agenda 1956


29. February 1956 – FIRST SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION

(During the common meditation on Wednesday the 29th February 1956)

This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine.

As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that THE TIME HAS COME’, and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces.

Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow.

19. March 1956 – Agenda of the Supramental action on Earth

On March 19 during the translation class the inner voice said:

‘Hold yourself straight’ and the body sat up and held itself absolutely straight during the entire class.

20. March 1956 – Straightening Her Back

(Upon awakening)

The control over the movements of the vertebrae, lost a long time ago (which resulted in a kind of insensitivity and incapacity to move them at will) has returned to a great extent: the consciousness is once again able to express itself and the back can straighten up very visibly.

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(The same day on the balcony)

Almost a total straightening, along with a very clear perception of the new force and power in the cells of the body.

21. March 1956 – Capitalism & Communism are coming to an end

The age of Capitalism and business is drawing to a close.

But the age of Communism, too, will pass. For Communism as it is preached is not constructive, it is a weapon to combat plutocracy. But when the battle is over and the armies are disbanded for want of employment, then Communism, having no more utility, will be transformed into something else that will express a higher truth.

We know this truth, and we are working for it so that it may reign upon earth.

23. April 1956 – A Prayer from Prayers and Meditations

Mother takes a passage from Prayers and Meditations of September 23, 1914:

The Lord hast willed, and Thou cost execute;

A new Light shall break upon the earth.

A new world shall be born.

And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled.

and rewrites it as follows in her own hand:

29 February – 29 March

Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute:

A new light breaks upon the earth,

A new world is born.

The things that were promised are fulfilled.

24. April 1956 – The Manifestation of the Supramental

The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality.

It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognize it.

02. May 1956 – From Questions and Answers

See Questions and Answers same date!

29. July 1956 – Prayer

O Thou who art always there – present in all I do, all I am – not for repose do I aspire, but for THY INTEGRAL VICTORY.

10. August 1956 – Prayer

My Lord, through me thou hast challenged the world and all the adverse forces have risen in protest.

But Thy Grace is winning the victory.

12. September 1956 – Possessed by a Supramental Entity

(During the Wednesday class)

... A supramental entity had entirely possessed me.

Something a little taller than myself: its feet extended below my feet and its head went a little beyond my head.

... A solid block with a rectangular base – a rectangle with a square base – one single piece.

... A light, not like the golden light of the Supermind: rather a kind of phosphorescence. I felt that had it been night, it would have been physically visible.

... And it was denser than my physical body: the physical body seemed to me almost unreal – as though crumbly – like sand running through your fingers.

... I would have been incapable of speaking, words seemed so petty, narrow, ignorant.

... I saw (how shall I put it?) the successive preparations which took place, in certain anterior beings, in order to achieve this.

... It felt as if I had several heads.

... The experience of February 29 was of a general nature; but this one was intended for me.

... An experience I had never had.

... I begin to see what the supramental body will be.

... I had had a somewhat similar experience at the time of the union of the supreme creative principle with the physical consciousness. But that was a subtle experience, while this was material – in the body.

... I did not have the experience, I did not look at it: I WAS it.

... And it radiated from me: myriads of little sparks that were penetrating everybody – I saw them enter into each one of those present.

... One more step.

07. October 1956 – The Divine is global vision

It was because I hadn’t thought of it. It hadn’t even grazed my consciousness. The divine will is not at all like that, it is not a will: it is a VISION, a global vision, that sees and... No, it does not guide (to guide suggests something outside, but nothing is outside), a creative vision, as it were; yet even then, the word ‘create’ does not here have the meaning we generally attribute to it.

And what is the Ashram? (I don’t even mean in terms of the Universe – on Earth only.) A speck. And why should this speck receive exceptional treatment?... Perhaps if people here had realized the supermind. But are they so exceptional as to expect exceptional treatment?...

As Sri Aurobindo says, people see God as a magnified man: he is the Demiurge, Jehovah – what I call the ‘Lord of Falsehood.’

Arbitrariness. But the Divine is not like that!

People say, ‘I gave everything, I sacrificed everything. In exchange, I expect exceptional conditions – everything should be beautiful, harmonious, easy.’

But the divine vision is global. The people in the Ashram do not want this strike... but what about the others? They are ignorant, mean, full of ill will, etc., but in their own way they are following a path, and why should they be deprived of the Grace? By the fact that their action is against the Ashram? It is certainly a Grace.

I said that I had not even thought of intervening. When things threatened to turn bad, I simply applied a force so that it wouldn’t become too serious.

Complete surrender... It is not a matter of giving what is small to something greater nor of losing one’s will in the divine will; it is a matter of ANNULLING one’s will in something that is of another nature.

What comes to replace this human will?

A consciousness and a vision. And one is filled with joy and...

I used to be different (although I was said to be non-interfering); I acted, if at all, to defend myself... But I understood very quickly that even this was a reaction of ignorance and that things would be set right automatically if one remained in the true consciousness.

A consciousness that sees and makes you see.

Which is why things go amiss when people try to force me to act: I am outside of myself, so to speak. As soon as I come back here, with no one around, then I see.

I have called for a greater ‘package’ of Grace and asked that the truth of things prevail. We shall see what happens.

08. October 1956 – Intuition on the balcony

‘Be always at the height of yourself, in all circumstances.’

Then I wondered when and how I am at the height of myself. And this is what I saw:

Two things which were parallel and concomitant – that is, they are always together:

One – identity with the Origin, which imparts an absolute serenity and perfect detachment to the action.

The other – identity with the supreme Grace, which obliterates and abolishes all errors committed in the action by whomsoever and whatsoever – and which annuls all the consequences of these errors.

And the moment I perceived this, I saw that my third attitude in action, which is the will for progress for the whole earth as well as for each particular individual, was not the height of my being.

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(later, at 10 a.m.)

One is never anything but a divine apprentice: the Divine of yesterday is only an apprentice to the Divine of tomorrow... No, I am not speaking of a progressive manifestation – that is much farther below.

When I am at my highest, I am already too high for the manifestation. I have gone far beyond what I wrote this morning.

What if the human is too heavy, too narrow, too obscure to follow you?

No, it is exactly the opposite of what you are saying. It is not that the Divine in his divinity is opposed to his own manifested self – He is very far beyond, beyond the necessity for Grace; He perceives his unique and exclusive responsibility, and that it is He and He alone who must change in His Manifestation so that all may change.