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IN her “Prayers and Meditations” (Prières et Méditations) Mother wrote under the date 25 September 1914:

 

A new light will break upon the earth,

A new world will be born,

And the things promised will be fulfilled.¹

 

Subesquently, that is to say, after a lapse of more than forty years, under the date 29 February – 29 March 1956, she intro­duced a change in the statement, in respect of the tense used. She re-wrote it in this' form:

 

A new light breaks upon the earth,

A new world is be born,

The things that were promised are fulfilled.²

 

The change was needed because of the change in the situa­tion. There has been a radical change in the actualities of the situation. Mother herself explains in another message com­municated after about a month under the date 24 April 1956:

 

The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise, but a living fact, a reality. It is at work here and one day will come when the 

 

¹  Une lumière nouvelle poindra sur la terre.

     Un monde nouveau naîtra,

   Et les chases promises seront accomplis.

 ² Une lumière nouvelle poinds sur la terre.

   Un monde nouveau est né, .

   Et les chases promises sont accomplis.  

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most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.¹

 

She speaks repeatedly of her vision and declares most em­phatically that the new world is born, born, born – as it were, thrice born (il est né, né, né,). It is there behind, it is moving, threading past all the obscurities that hide it but in a manner indomitable and invincible: the outer weight of ignorance cannot hold it down eternally.

Progress continues, the Mother declares under the date 3 February 1958, that is to say, after the lapse of about two years-a momentous declaration, the arrival of a full-fledged supramental boat at the shore of earth. Its mission was to carry within it human beings who were ready for the supra­mental life. The description of the whole scene was so beautiful, so graphic, so alluring that on reading it a young girl from outside wrote to the Mother that she would like to be a passenger on the boat and prayed to the Mother for admission. Mother explains that the substance of which this new world was made was the most material supramental, the supramental substance nearest to the physical world, its first manifestation.

Once again she reaffirms the reality of her vision in the message she gave to her children on the New Year Day of 1961:

This wonderful world of delight waiting at our gates for our call, to come down upon earth. . . .²

 

Naturally, this is not the end, the culmination. One step has still to be taken – the material matter too has to be touched and remoulded – and that means a hiatus, a time-lag in the end. The process of creation always follows this line, a thing to be created or embodied upon earth is first created in a subtle 

 

¹ La manifestation du Supramental sur la terre n'est plus seulement une promesse, mais un fait vivant, une réaIité.

   II est à l'oeuvre maintenant, ici-bas, et un jour viendra ou Ie plus aveugle, Ie plus inconscient, même Ie plus volontairement ignorant sera obligé de Ie re­connaître.

 ² Ce monde merveilleux de felicité,

   à nos partes,

   qui attend notre appel

   pour descendre sur Ia terre. 

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world. When it is ready, ready-made in that world, then it precipitates itself upon the material world, slowly or gradually or suddenly according to the cosmic will. An illustration to explain the point, the Mother herself gives it.

Once, asked about the liberation of India, sometime in 1915 when India was completely in bondage, she answered without the least hesitation: "India is free". She did not say "India will be free", she said simply "India is free" as though stating an actual fact. The physical fact however came about in the year 1947, that is to say, 32 years after the thing happened in the subtle world. Mother comments that is the exact image of the resistance to the manifestation, the physical realisation.

Not merely creation, but destruction also happens in the same way. The destruction first occurs in the subtle world and as a consequence inevitably takes place the physical destruc­tion. Sri Krishna in the Gita tells Arjuna: All these troops ranged against you have already been killed by me, you have only to be just the instrument or the excuse: Mayaîvaîté nihatah purvameva.

                         

Savitri is coming back to earth to her normal life. She has done her final conquest. And the whole world of the new conquest, the embodied Life Divine within her, she enters the earth-life, but with the veil drawn upon herself and her achieve­ment. The 'one day more' is yet to be done, the 'one day' made of material matter. She is not to disclose herself till that one day is done. The curtain is down now but behind lies the whole edifice she has built up, in its entire unflawed beauty and fulfil­ment. At present outwardly we see before us the arena of a gray dangerous world, as of old. The curtain will surely roll up and reveal what it hides, slowly or perhaps a shell may burst open all on a sudden and bring forth the new life full and entire. . . How will it happen... the Revelation, the Epiphany? The event will show. In the meantime, the New Creation, a "greater dawn" she holds within herself.

 

Deep guarded by her mystic folds of light. 

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