Physically it marks the day when the Mother first set Her Divine Feet on the soil on India, Pondicherry. It sealed the fate of India as the centrestage of the Lila of the Avatara and her consequent awakening and rise through the age that was to follow. It is this lila of the Avatars that had kept the spiritual core of India intact through the Ages that preceded. It is only after the energy of Sri Krishna began to fade and the illusionist idea of Buddhism started taking over the mind of India that we see the shift of the theatre of evolution towards the West (and the Middle East). During this dark Age we see the high and mighty spiritual impulse of India dwindling into narrow streams of sects and cults. The coming of the Mother to India meant a shift in the theatre of evolution to India and the resurgence of her vast spiritual light flooding not only India but Asia and the World. The Mother is the embodiment of the Divine Shakti and her coming to India means that the balance of power is going to shift to Asia.
On this day, the 29th of March 1914, the Mother not only came to India for the first time but also met Sri Aurobindo. This meeting was more than the meeting of Eastern wisdom and Western thought. It marked the beginning of a new and synthetic impulse that would seize mankind and only integrate East and West but also the integration of the spiritual life and the material life. Towards this end they started a new brand of yoga, uniquely their own, the integral yoga with a unique goal of terrestrial transformation. The integral yoga is a joint creation of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
The meeting of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother initiated the foundation of the Integral Yoga through the Arya, a monthly journal of the New Idea, started on the 15th August 1914. In one word the momentous meeting meant the beginning of a new hope embodied in a new idea leading towards realisation of the Divine Life through the Integral Yoga. The reason for this is revealed by Sri Aurobindo himself in couple of his letters.
‘….the sadhana and the work were waiting for the Mother’s coming.’
‘Before the Mother came all were living in the mind with only some mental realisations and experiences. The vital and everything else were unregenerated and the psychic behind the veil. I am not aware that anyone of them at that time entered the cosmic consciousness. At that time I was still seeking my way for the transformation and the passage to the supramental (all the part of the Yoga that goes beyond the ordinary Vedanta)…..’
As Savitri puts it…
‘The two together began a greater Age.’
Affectionately,
Alok Da
