Preparing for the Miraculous

idge across the afterlife 165The Mother herself gave us a glimpse of Mahashakti,the cosmic Mother, when she narrated one of her experienceson 3 February 1958. “The supramental world existspermanently and I am there permanently in a supramentalbody. I had proof of it this very day, when my earthconsciousnesswent there and remained there consciouslybetween two and three o’clock in the afternoon. Now Iknow that what was lacking for the two worlds to join in aconstant and conscious relation is an intermediate zone betweenthe physical world as it is and the supramental worldas it is ...” She saw this intermediate zone as “a huge ship,as large as a city, which was a symbolic representation ofthe place where this work is going on.” On board of thisship were people “destined to become the future inhabitantsof the supramental world. They were trained for theirtask and ready to go ashore.”The Mother was in charge of the whole enterprise fromthe beginning and throughout the proceedings. “I had preparedall the groups myself. I stood on the ship at the headof the gangway, calling the groups one by one and sendingthem ashore.”During this experience the Mother was suddenly interruptedand called back into her physical body by somebodyin her room, and had at that instant a brief glimpse of herself.“My upper part, particularly the head, was not muchmore than a silhouette of which the contents were whitewith an orange fringe. The more down towards the feet, themore the colour looked like that of the people on the ship,that is to say orange; the more upwards, the more it wastranslucent and white, with less red. The head was only acontour with a brilliant sun in it. Rays of light radiated fromit, which were actions of the will.”And then there is “the Mother in the Yoga” who thistime had not come as a Vibhuti (Hatshepsut, Jeanne d’Arc,