Preparing for the Miraculous

168 eleven talks“The following is therefore the most useful work to bedone: 1. For each individually, to be conscious in himselfof the Divine Presence and to identify himself with it. 2. Toindividualize the states of being that till now were neverconscious in man and thus to put the Earth in connectionwith one or more of the fountains of the universal forcethat are still sealed to it. 3. To speak again to the worldthe eternal word under a new form adapted to its presentmentality. It will be the synthesis of all human knowledge.4. Collectively, to establish an ideal society in a propitiousspot for the flowering of the new race, the race of the Sonsof God.” 16She has worked out this program in intimate collaborationwith Sri Aurobindo – once formulating their one divinepersonality as “mothersriaurobindo” in writing – and shehas gone on working it out when alone in her avataric body.They had come to lay the foundations of the future and tobuild the archetype of the supramental species. This is arather well documented real story, more fascinating thanany myth, in which one sees the constant interaction of thethree personalities of the Mother. In her conversations duringthe last years, as well as in the transformation of thecells of her physical body, it was unfortunately the humanaspect that was most visible to human eyes.Day by day and year after year Sri Aurobindo foughthis occult and spiritual battles without anybody aroundhim being aware of it; one only gets some glimpses of his“real Work” in his poems and in Savitri. The Mother hasspoken about her battles in the subconscient, her physicalsufferings and some of her victories. But who was awarethat that Being sitting there in a simple armchair, on the firstfloor of the central Ashram building in Pondicherry, was no16 The Mother: Words of Long Ago, p. 47.