While reminiscing occasionally, Sri T. V. Kapali Sastriar used to speak to me of the various lines of Sadhana he had pursued since his childhood. Some of them like the Mantra Upasanas, Puja Aradhana, were elaborate, complicated and quite strenuous. He practised them for years and years. "And what came of them?" I asked once. With a bound he sat up and said: "Here it is. It has brought me to the Feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother," impliedly questioning if there could be anything greater that one would want. The reply made a profound impression on me and it comes to my mind whenever there is a tendency around to take things for granted, to forget the momentous significance of the opportunity offered to us to breathe in the physical atmosphere of the Mother and bask in the sunshine of Her Smile.
He was conscious, every minute, of the rare fortune of living at this moment the like of which comes hardly once in a thousand years in the history of the earth. For he experienced and knew that the Mother is not simply a spiritual personality, a Saint; neither a Yogin who has arrived at the summits of spiritual realisation. She is not even an Avatar of the traditional conception, a Power or Part of the Divine incarnated in human form. He saw and recognised in Her a conscious embodiment of the whole Divine, a living Murti in whom are present all the Four Personalities of the Adya sakti spoken of by Sri Aurobindo as presiding over the course of the Earth's Evolution. He invoked in Her Person Maheshvari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati and got their response in an unmistakable manner. In Her he adored his Ista Devata, Sri Lalita Tripura Sundari, and surrendered his entire Sadhana to Her. Times without number he let me feel and get an inkling into the working of the Mother's Love, Force and Grace in his inner and outer life. Once he confided to me, with deep emotion:
What has been done in me by the Mother's Force during the last six months would have taken for me at least ten years of exclusive Sadhana to achieve"
They say it is not always wise to say the whole truth, not judicious, I do not know. But I do know that there are occasions when it is wrong to resist the inner impulsion to declare a fact of one's own deepest perception and realisation, especially when it is an authentic Truth verified and verifiable in the experience of others who are competent therefor. And it is under such an imperative urge of the soul that I proceed to record the truth of the Manifestation that is the MOTHER.
This, says Sri Aurobindo, is the Hour of God. There have been similar junctures before in the long course of the Evolution of the Earth, but with a difference. They too were critical moments when sudden transitions, saltus, were effected from one stage to another by special manifestations of the Divine emanated for the purpose. The present, however, is the most fateful climacteric reached so far. Evolution has arrived at a stage when man-the crown of the aeonic labour of Nature-has either to overpass himself into his Godhead and thus open out a new dimension of progress, or stagnate and perish with all that he represents. All the established forces of Ignorance and Falsehood are against this transition which sounds their death-knell. It is only the most plenary and direct manifestation of the Divine Conscious-Force, on a scale hitherto unknown, that can meet the situation. And this is exactly what the Mother is. She is the response of the Supreme Divine to the call of Earth when faced with her greatest challenge. She is the most complete embodiment of the Divine Grace manifested so far in the history of Creation. She has come with all the Higher Power and Knowledge, Spiritual and Occult, with all the dominating Force and conquering Love that alone could lift up Nature and reclaim Man for God. For decades She has striven to this end in Her frail body with endless patience and meticulous labour:
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