I have no words to describe how I feel when I know that the Mother’s feet have touched the earth in the Ashram and I gather from writings that Mother spent time in the playground. I would very much like to know where all in the Ashram (eg. bookstore, visitors seating area, corridor in the front of the rooms) did She walk? Did Mother take a stroll around the Ashram around the plants? And I have seen lot of people pay their reverence to the huge tree near the Samadhi -please enlighten me about the significance of this special tree.
Supramental descent means that the Supramental Consciousness, Force or any other aspect of the Supermind descends into the individual sadhaka of this Yoga.
The descent is an individual experience and it has its repercussions in the form of certain effects upon the individual.
The Supramental manifestation is a collective phenomenon. It means that the Supramental consciousness descends upon earth and starts a general collective action upon humanity and other aspects of earthly life.
What you say about the Mother’s visit to different places in the Ashram is very true. Any person with a developed psychic sensitivity can feel it in these places. Apart from the Ashram main building, She visited, physically so to say, number of places such as the various departments especially the Dining Room, Library, Ayurveda section, the Ashram School, Ashram Theatre, the Dispensary, Desiree home (then Light di’s residence), certain residences of some sadhakas and of course the Playground, Tennis ground, Sports ground, Exhibition hall, Golconde, and few other places. She also drove towards Auroville and went to the Lake estate. There are places She stayed here during Her visit to Pondicherry which are now part of the Ashram buildings. There are other places where She did not go physically but visited in Her subtle body. There are still others that came in contact with Her Consciousness such as the Himalayas or places where someone lived in aspiration and surrender. And of course there are all these places in Japan and Europe where She lived or travelled before coming here. All of them carry a special vibration and a perceptive person can feel it.
Pondicherry of course is very special as Her very atmosphere extends here as She herself reveals in one of Her writings.
‘Here, in Pondicherry, you cannot breathe without breathing my consciousness. It permeates the atmosphere in the subtle physical almost materially and extends right to the lake, seven miles away from here. Beyond, my consciousness can be felt in the material vital, and then on the mental and the other higher planes everywhere. When I came here for the first time, I felt Sri Aurobindo’s atmosphere, felt it materially, ten miles from the shore—ten nautical miles, not kilometers! It was very sudden, very concrete, a pure and luminous atmosphere, light, so light that it lifts you up.
A long time ago, Sri Aurobindo had this reminder, with which you are all quite familiar, put up everywhere in the Ashram: ‘Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you; because she is, indeed, always present.’
This is not some mere sentence, these are not just words, it is a fact. I am very concretely with you, and those with a subtle vision can see me.
Generally speaking, my Force is constantly here at work, constantly changing the psychological elements of your being to put them into new relationships and to make clear to you the diverse facets of your nature so that you may see what must be changed, developed or eliminated.
But besides all this, there is a special personal bond of affection between you and me, between all who have turned towards Sri Aurobindo’s teaching and me—and of course, distance does not count; you may be in France, at the other end of the world, or in Pondicherry, but this bond remains just as real and as living. Each time there is a call, each time I need to know something to send out a force, an inspiration, a protection or whatever else, a sort of message suddenly comes to me, and I do what is needed. Obviously, these communications come to me at any moment whatsoever, and you may have seen me more than once suddenly stop in the middle of a sentence or some work: it means something, some communication is coming, so I concentrate.’
Affectionately
Alok da
