consciousness, not human turning into divine. The Mother was inwardly above the human even in childhood, so the view held by “many” is erroneous.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
1. The Mother: Individual, Universal, Transcendent
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Do you not refer to the Mother (our Mother) in your book The Mother?
Yes.
Is she not the “Individual” Divine Mother who has embodied “the power of these two vaster ways of her existence”1 – Transcendent and Universal?
Yes.
Has she not descended here (amongst us) into the Darkness and Falsehood and Error and Death in her deep and great love for us?
Yes.
There are many who hold the view that she was human but now embodies the Divine Mother and her Prayers, they say, explain this view. But to my mental conception, to my psychic feeling, she is the Divine Mother who has consented to put on herself the cloak of obscurity and suffering and ignorance so that she can effectively lead us – human beings – to nowledge and Bliss and Ananda and to Him.
The Divine puts on an appearance of humanity, assumes the outward human nature in order to tread the path and show it to human beings, but does not cease to be the Divine. It is a manifestation that takes place, a manifestation of a growing divine consciousness, not human turning into divine. The Mother was inwardly above the human even in childhood, so the view held by “many” is erroneous.
I also conceive that the Mother’s Prayers are meant to show us – the aspiring psychic – how to pray to the Divine.
Yes.
17 August 1938
1 Sri Aurobindo, “The Mother”, p. 14. Other letters on the book “The Mother” are published in Letters on Himself and on the Ashram, volume 35 of “The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo”, pp. 102 – 17. – Ed.