Preparing for the Miraculous

180 eleven talksThe first one recalls: “I remember clearly that Mother wassitting in the middle room beside Sri Aurobindo’s, wherethe tiger skins and the Mother’s paintings are displayed.She looked very dejected. She was stooping with a hand onher forehead, and did not notice me as I entered.”The second photographer, on the contrary, recalls:“When I entered Sri Aurobindo’s abode through the door atthe top of the staircase leading from the Meditation Hall, Iinstantly became petrified by the sight of the Mother sittingon a chair in the central room – the room in which her paintingsadorn the walls and the tiger skins decorate the divan.She was seated between the two doors on the southern sideof the narrow room with her eyes shut, lost in deep meditation.I have never seen her like that again. To me she lookedlike the personification of Mother Kali herself, so powerfulwas the appearance. I stood before her for some time.”The Mind of LightOn the last day before Sri Aurobindo left his body theMother said: “Each time I enter the room, I see him pullingdown the Supramental Light.” And later: “All the supramentalforce he had accumulated in his body, he passed onto me and I received it.” 15In his memoir A Call from Pondicherry, Dr. Prabhat Sanyalwrote: “She stood there, near the feet of Sri Aurobindo,her hair had been undressed and was flowing about hershoulders.” 16 Once again, to know what really happenedin those climactic hours, we have to turn to the Mother herself.“He had accumulated in his body much supramentalForce, and as soon as he left ... You see, he was lying on hisbed, I stood by his side, and in a way altogether concrete –15 Id., vol. X, p. 320.16 Prabhat Sanyal: op. cit.