Preparing for the Miraculous

idge across the afterlife 163Remembering the MotherReturning to our main theme, one could ask the question:Why was this invaluable protection after death providedonly recently, so late in the history of our species?An answer on this level of things is not to be given bymental understanding. As madame Théon told the Mother,building the bridges across the afterlife was part of what theMother had come to do on Earth, and the light mentionedin all NDE experiences is the Mother’s Light. In the wordsof madame Théon: “All those whose psychic being is a littlebit awake, and who are able to perceive your Light, will goto your Light at the moment of death, wherever they maydie, and you will help them cross beyond.”These words refer directly to the status of Mirra Alfassa,the French woman whom we now call “the Mother,” therebymeaning the Great Mother incarnated as the female partof the Avatar Sri Aurobindo-Mother. Before, the Avatar hadalways been male, and many Hindus still have difficulty inaccepting a male-female Avatar. But it is quite clear that ifthere is an earthly evolution, in which the successive Avatarsplay a crucial role, and if in the present stage of humanity’shistory this evolution is reaching a critical point, the Avatarhas to represent in himself the complete human being inorder to transfigure it. Only the Great Mother, because shemanifests all levels of existence and also transcends them,could perform a task like building bridges across the planesof existence, and constantly help the dying onward to theirpsychic resting place.The significance of “she whom we call the Mother” canonly be fully understood in her three aspects as the GreatMother of many names, but always “the one original transcendentShakti;” as Mahashakti, the cosmic Mother of theGods; and as the incarnated Mother in the Yoga.