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256 eleven talksnature [i.e. the nature of the humans]. For if she did not participatein their nature, she could not lead them farther ...But she does not forget: she has adopted their consciousnessbut she remains in relation with her own, her supremeconsciousness ... If she did not adopt their consciousness, ifshe did not suffer their pain, she would not be able to helpthem. Hers is not a suffering because of ignorance, it is asuffering because of identity. It is because she has acceptedto have the same vibrations as they have, in order to be ableto enter into contact with them and to pull them out of thestate they are in. If she did not enter into contact with them,they would not even perceive her, or no one would be ableto bear her radiance ...” 53It is also interesting to compare the following passagefrom a conversation in the Agenda (27 June 1962) with SriAurobindo’s statement “Carrying on the evolution.” “Oneday I have said that in the history of the Earth, whereverthe Consciousness could manifest, I was there – that was afact. It was like in the story of Savitri: always there, alwaysthere, always there, in this man, in that woman. At certaintimes there were four emanations simultaneously ... at thetime of the Italian and of the French Renaissance. At anothermoment also, the time of Christ ... This time, as soonas I started practising yoga, all have come together. This ishow I remembered them.”The Mother warriorIn the Ashram the Mother was usually addressed as“Sweet Mother,” but everybody knew that some of her emanationsor individualized personalities, among them Kalior Durga, were great warriors. She carried above her eyethe scar of an occult battle. And did Sri Aurobindo not call53 The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953, pp. 387-388.