New Words of the Mother * Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Ma, A question has suddenly prevailed in me. Though I have some glimpses of the answer, I am unable to find it totally and in detail. So Ma, I want the answer as clearly as possible. I ask you to explain it to me just as things are explained to a child. Here is the question: “It is Sri Aurobindo who has really known the Mother, and it is the Mother who has really known Sri Aurobindo.” What does this mean exactly? It is only like that can know like. Thus it is only one who has fully realised the Divine and is identified with Him who can recognise the Divine in another person and know that that person has realised the Divine and is identified with Him. The others, all the others, can believe and even have faith, but they cannot know — for true knowledge is acquired by identity. Sri Aurobindo, being the “Avatar” of the Supreme, was the only one who could recognise in me Aditi, the creative Consciousness. And I was the only one who could know for certain that he was the Supreme. 20 October 1962 THE MOTHER I am only realising what He has conceived. I am only the protagonist and the continuator of His work. 1951 * Wherever the Divine Consciousness has manifested, I was there. 5 December 1951 * ( Caption beneath a photograph of the Mother giving Darshan ) The majesty that comes from being the tabernacle.     THE MOTHER