Preparing for the Miraculous

the development of Sri Aurobindo’s thought 41continuation of the transformative effort because “yourbody is better than mine.” The significance of these wordswill become clear in the last years of the Mother’s yoga, theyears covered by the Agenda.The dramatic but dignified happenings at the time ofSri Aurobindo’s passing have been witnessed by many andnarrated elsewhere. 18 His “death” was interpreted by mostas the result of illness and/or advanced age. Who realizedat the time – and even now – that there, in those days and inthat place on Earth, a sacred mystery without precedencewas enacted on which humanity’s future depended? In hispoems we may find some predictive or relevant passages.In the 1930s he had already written in “A God’s Labour:”A voice cried, “Go where none have gone.Dig deeper, deeper yetTill thou reach the grim foundation stoneAnd knock at the keyless gate.”I saw that a falsehood was planted deepAt the very root of thingsWhere the grey Sphinx guards God’s riddle sleepOn the Dragon’s outspread wings.I left the surface gods of mindAnd life’s unsatisfied seasAnd plunged through the body’s alleys blindTo the nether mysteries.Perhaps we find the work that was to be done on pages232-233 of Savitri, which have the lines:Into the abysmal secrecy he came ...And stood on the last locked subconscient’s floor18 Cf. Georges Van Vrekhem: Beyond Man and The Mother - The Storyof Her Life.