Preparing for the Miraculous

the development of Sri Aurobindo’s thought 35in charge, to withdraw soon afterwards into seclusion forthe rest of his life. On this extraordinary day Sri Krishnatook on an earthly body, consenting to descend into the adharaof Sri Aurobindo, making his withdrawal “indispensable”.We have already mentioned the close connectionbetween Sri Krishna and Sri Aurobindo’s yoga. Some hintsby the Mother even suggested that Sri Aurobindo had beenSri Krishna in “a formation of the past.” The fact that theaura of both of them is the same, whitish blue, seems to confirmthis. It may come as a surprise to many that Sri Krishnawas bodily on the earth from 24 November 1926 till 5 December1950.The extraordinary situation went still much further.The Mother continued her overmental creation “for somemonths” after 24 November. Put in the simplest of terms,this creation would have brought down upon earth a set ofcircumstances enabling a direct reciprocal action betweenthe humans and the incarnated gods, leading up to a worldperhaps resembling Sri Krishna’s goloka, in other words aheaven on earth. Later the Mother said to K.D. Sethna thatat that time she had got “the Word of Creation.” “When Ilooked a little puzzled,” remembered Sethna, “she added:‘You know that Brahma is said to create by his Word. In thesame way whatever I would express could take place. I hadwilled to express a whole new world of superhuman reality.Everything was prepared in the subtle dimension andwas waiting to be precipitated upon earth.” 11In 1958, the last year of her talks at the Ashram Playground,the Mother narrated that immediately after Sri Aurobindo’swithdrawal “things took a certain shape: a verybrilliant creation was worked out in extraordinary detail,with marvellous experiences, contacts with divine beings,11 K.D. Sethna: Aspects of Sri Aurobindo, p. 97.