The Descent of the Overmind Conciousness

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The Descent of the Overmind Conciousness

The foundations of the Ashram were being laid. In 1926 a great event occurred

which put the seal of certainty on the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

The aim of their Yoga is to bring down the highest Supramental Consciousness of

the Divine and to establish it in the earth consciousness. But before this can

take place, the Overmind Consciousness or the Krishna Consciousness, has to be

firmly established. This descent took place on 24th of November 1926.

There were then 24 disciples. On that eventful day, they gathered in the

Verandah of Sri Aurobindo's room. On the wall behind Sri Aurobindo's chair was

a black silk curtain showing three Chinese dragons. The tail of each dragon

reached up to the mouth of the other.

There was an old prophecy in China that Truth would manifest on earth when the

three dragons would meet: they symbolise the regions of earth, mind and sky.

After a short meditation, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, for the first time,

together blessed all the disciples. From that day, Sri Aurobindo handed over

the complete spiritual and material charge of all the disciples to the Mother

and withdrew into seclusion to concentrate on his sadhana of the Supermind.

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[Arrangements [also] had to be made for the maintenance, repair, rebuilding of

houses, for the service of food and for decent living and hygiene" and so

forth. At the same time the guidance of the disciples' inner lives began

progressively to pass into the Mother's hands, so that, when Sri Aurobindo

retired into seclusion on 24 November 1926, "the whole material and spiritual

charge" of what had now come to be called Sri Aurobindo's ashram "devolved on

her". It was in this way that "the Ashram was founded or rather founded itself

in 1926", the informal grouping of seekers taking "the form of an ashram more

from the wish of the sadhaks who desired to entrust their whole inner and outer

life to the Mother than from any intention or plan of hers or of Sri

Aurobindo's". The Sri Aurobindo Ashram is thus more a spontaneous growth than a

deliberate

creation.]

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"The future of the Earth depends on a Change of Consciousness. The only hope for

the future is in a change of man's consciousness and the change is bound to

come. But it is left to men to decide if they will collaborate for this change

or it will have to be enforced upon them by the power of crashing

circumstances."

The Mother

Regards,

 

Subhashbhai

 

E-mail : bjswadia (AT) (DOT) co.uk

 

Sai Ram!