The Mother shared this of her experience to Sri Aurobindo through a letter. Sri Aurobindo replied to her letter on 31.12.1915 and told her that that experience was essentially Vedic, and he gave a brief explanation of her experience too.
Although Sri Aurobindo’s reply which is written in brief is comprehensible, but the description of the Mother’s experience is rather complicated. Would you kindly give some detailed explanation of the Mother’s experience.
If the Mother has already discussed her experience on some date in Pondicherry, which could have been compiled in CWM or the Agenda, please send me the reference.
It is quite possible that you might have already made a detailed discussion on this Experience of the Mother in your talks. If it is so, please send me the reference of your discussion on Auro Ma.
This prayer has been taken up by me but it is difficult to trace it on auromaa by me. I will check with the webmaster Sergey about it. Here is the prayer below.
‘November 26, 1915
The entire consciousness immersed in divine contemplation, the whole being enjoyed a supreme and vast felicity.
Then was the physical body seized, first in its lower members and next the whole of it, by a sacred trembling which made all personal limits fall away little by little even in the most material sensation. The being grew in greatness progressively, methodically, breaking down every barrier, shattering every obstacle, that it might contain and manifest a force and a power which increased ceaselessly in immensity and intensity. It was as a progressive dilatation of the cells until there was a complete identification with the earth: the body of the awakened consciousness was the terrestrial globe moving harmoniously in ethereal space. And the consciousness knew that its global body was thus moving in the arms of the universal Being, and it gave itself, it abandoned itself to It in an ecstasy of peaceful bliss. Then it felt that its body was absorbed in the body of the universe and one with it; the consciousness became the consciousness of the universe, immobile in its totality, moving infinitely in its internal complexity. The consciousness of the universe sprang towards the Divine in an ardent aspiration, a perfect surrender, and it saw in the splendour of the immaculate Light the radiant Being standing on a many-headed serpent whose body coiled infinitely around the universe. The Being in an eternal gesture of triumph mastered and created at one and the same time the serpent and the universe that issued from him; erect on the serpent he dominated it with all his victorious might, and the same gesture that crushed the hydra enveloping the universe gave it eternal birth. Then the consciousness became this Being and perceived that its form was changing once more; it was absorbed into something which was no longer a form and yet contained all forms, something which, immutable, sees,—the Eye, the Witness. And what It sees, is. Then this last vestige of form disappeared and the consciousness itself was absorbed into the Unutterable, the Ineffable.
The return towards the consciousness of the individual body took place very slowly in a constant and invariable splendour of Light and Power and Felicity and Adoration, by successive gradations, but directly, without passing again through the universal and terrestrial forms. And it was as if the modest corporeal form had become the direct and immediate vesture, without any intermediary, of the supreme and eternal Witness.’
(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwm/01/november-26-1915)
As you can see, it is the experience of Kundalini awakening but much more precise and detailed. The awakening or arousal is not just from the base of spine but from the very physical consciousness including those of the cells. The Mother spoke of 12 chakras mounting from the very Inconscient.
Step by step there is at first a state of deep contemplation. Then there is the thrill of Divine possession right at the physical and cellular level. What follows is the progressive universalisation, the opening of each layer into the cosmic consciousness whose play is supported by the cosmic Time. That is the great cosmic serpent. The child playing on the head of the serpent is Krishna, the Bliss that has seized her at the very beginning of the experience. But then after identifying with the cosmic being who governs Time and Space she goes beyond into the Transcendent and the Supreme. Then of course, there is the descent back to the physical consciousness.
Hope it brings some clarity.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
