Preparing for the Miraculous

52 eleven talkswhich went through countless yogic crises, struggles andreversals many years after the Arya and the Prayers andMeditations had been written. For instance, Sri Aurobindo’sbattle in the 1930s to bring the Supermind down on Earthremained known only to a small circle of disciples aroundDilip Kumar Roy and Nirodbaran Talukdar, to whom SriAurobindo gave some glimpses of his gigantic yogic effortin his correspondence with them. The important seriesof articles written for the Bulletin and later namedThe Supramental Manifestation upon Earth remains largelyunappreciated even today. And one reads seldom aboutthe intimations by the Mother about her work of physicaltransformation, which was, after all, her avataric Yoga inthe last years of her life, the crucial step which would makethe appearance of the overman and the supramental beingpossible.It is a matter of importance that the creation of the supramentalbeing, the next step in the terrestrial evolution,is not to happen according to a once-and-for-all fixed ideologicalscheme, but that it is an open, unknown process oftransformation that has been started by Sri Aurobindo andthe Mother during their lifetime, that is continuing now,and that will continue for a long time to come. It is a “pilgrim’sprogress” into the miraculous.OvermanSri Aurobindo, continuously occupied with completingSavitri and with the urgency of his avataric task, did notwrite essayistic prose any more in the last years of his life.The reason may have been that for this kind of literary workhis consciousness had to descend again to the human level.Besides, his eyesight had deteriorated and he had to dictateeverything to an amanuensis, poetry as well as prose. Allthe same, he could not refuse a request from the Mother for