Preparing for the Miraculous

preparing for the miraculous 61the event immediately afterwards, and it was published inWords of the Mother III, pp. 408 ff. In this report, seldom ifever commented upon, the Mother tells about “a group ofpeople who want to create a religion based on the revelationof Sri Aurobindo. But they have taken only the side ofpower and force, a certain kind of knowledge and all thatcould be utilized by asuric forces.” 14 In this group there was“a big asuric being that has succeeded in taking the appearanceof Sri Aurobindo. ... This appearance of Sri Aurobindohas declared to me that the work I am doing is not his [i.e.Sri Aurobindo’s]. It has declared that I have been a traitorto him and to his work, and has refused to have anythingto do with me.”And the report goes on: “I woke up at 2 o’clock [in thenight] and noticed that the heart had been affected by theattack of this group that wants to take the life away fromthis body ... They would have liked me dead years ago. Itis they who are responsible for these attacks on my life. Uptill now I am alive because the Lord wanted me to be alive,otherwise I would have gone long ago.“I am no more in my body. I have left it to the Lord totake care of it, to decide if it is to have the Supramental ornot. I know and I have said also that now is the last fight.... This is the Lord’s decision. I am not even asking what hehas decided. If the body is incapable of bearing the fight,if it has to be dissolved, then humanity will pass througha critical time. What the asuric Force that has succeeded in14 In The Mother - The Story of Her Life, Georges Van Vrekhem has thefollowing footnote on p. 466: “It would indeed be easy to concoct a sectarianor totalitarian creed or cult from the teaching of Sri Aurobindo andthe Mother. One has only to put the accent on the new race of supermenin the making, to leave out the individuality of the way and the primarynecessity of the realization of the soul, and to extract a mythos from theirwritings, Savitri containing all necessary material to this end.”