Preparing for the Miraculous

sri aurobindo’s descent into death 181concrete with such a strong sensation as to make one thinkthat it could be seen – all this supramental Force which wasin him passed from his body into mine. And I felt the frictionof the passage. It was extraordinary. It was an extraordinaryexperience. ... When he left, there was a whole part– the most material part of the ‘descent’ [the formation in SriAurobindo] of the supramental body up to the [physical]mental – which visibly came out of his body, like this [gesture],and entered into mine. And this was so concrete thatI felt the friction of the forces passing through the pores ofthe skin. It was as concrete as if it had been material.” 17Here it should be recalled that Sri Aurobindo and theMother had divided the tasks for the accomplishment oftheir mission. Sri Aurobindo, secluded in his apartment,took upon him the Yoga of bringing down the Supermindinto his physical body. As his physical body, like any otherhuman body, was a formation of the terrestrial evolution,this also meant that he was bringing down the Supermindin the very stuff of the Earth.The Mother had taken upon her the building up of theAshram, materially as well as spiritually, and the yoga of thesadhaks and sadhikas who, as she once said, were enclosed inher consciousness “as in an egg.” Yet every new realizationin his Yoga Sri Aurobindo transmitted to her, and everythingthat went on in the Ashram the Mother submitted toSri Aurobindo. This “division of the tasks” is essential tounderstand what happened between them at the time of SriAurobindo’s departure.“As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body,what he has called the Mind of Light got realized in me,”the Mother said afterwards to K.D. Sethna. “The Supermind17 Mother’s Agenda, vol. VIII, p. 311.