I didn’t quite understand the difficulty. She is the Divine Mother, the Supreme Creatrix, ‘the Shakti of Sri Aurobindo’ as Sri Aurobindo as he himself put it. They are one in two bodies. It is quite natural and inevitable that if one withdraws the other will find it difficult to stay. There has to be ‘someone’ at the very material level to hold Her, keep Her rooted. That is the role that Pranab da played.
Her continuing to stay back after Sri Aurobindo’s withdrawl involved the greatest of all sacrifices. Did She not write, ‘without him, I exist not’. It applies at all levels including the physical. Such is their perfect identity. If She continued to stay it was only for the completion of the Work and because Sri Aurobindo’s Will entered into her.
It is so in the stories of Radha and Krishna as well as Sita and Rama. The urge to depart was almost instantaneous. But both stayed for the work and departed few years thereafter. It only signifies their deepest intensity of love which is so wonderful.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
