Mantras of the Mother

Mantras of the Mother

 

Heal with her feet the aching throb of life.

Heal with her feet the aching throb of life.

From the book   "Memorable Contacts with The Mother" written by Nirodbaran

  In 1955 the Mother had spoken to me about the manifestation of the Supermind which, she was expecting, would take place on 24th April, 1956. 

But then it manifested on 29th February, 1956; 

and on the 24th of April of that year it was first announced. 

 Nishikanta had written to the Mother to keep him alive till that date and the Mother had given him her word. 

Now there were only three more days to go and he was on his death-bed. 

Somehow he survived till the Darshan day. Just after the darshan was over, we brought him on a stretcher for the Mother’s darshan. The stretcher was placed at the foot of the staircase. She came down followed by Pranab and others. We raised the stretcher. Nishikanta stretched out his feeble hands. The Mother at once clutched them with both her hands and, drawing them towards herself, silently smiled into his wide open supplicating eyes. Then with her delicate fingers she smoothed his anguished brow, wiping away, as it were, all the dark karmic scripts from it.

 Suddenly Nishikanta, pointing to his chest, whispered haltingly, 

“Mother, your foot here!” 

The stretcher was put down. The Mother holding Pranab’s arm for support placed her right foot gently upon his chest. Nishikanta pressed it with his trembling hands. 

Sri Aurobindo’s mantric verse came to my mind:

 

Heal with her feet the aching throb of life.

 

In the evening when I went to see Nishikanta, there was no longer that fevered restlessness; the face and body breathed serenity. 

In a low voice he said, 

“That hell-fire within has subsided. Ah! the body has become ice-cool. Every cell is soothed with peace and peace.”

This was the miracle that happened before our eyes in 1956. 

Nishikanta lived on seventeen years more!

Mantras of the Mother

Mantras of the Mother

Mantras of the Mother

 

Mantras of the Mother

Mantras of the Mother

 

Mantras of the Mother

                                     Divine's way of working;

                                From the book ' One of  Mother's Children' by Udar. 

                                published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram

                        (Puja Day in 1954 Mother with Udar)

  

  Once there was a great shortage of cement in the Ashram and as I was then in charge of purchases the responsibility for procuring it rested on me. So I asked our Mother to do something about it as really all our building work had come to a standstill. The suppliers of cement kept on regretting their inability to supply cement to us. The Mother said She would look into the matter.

      Then the cement began to come, a regular flood. All our warehouses were full and we could not use the cement fast enough to meet the inflow. So the departments concerned asked me to stop the supply. I did this without consulting the Mother. The supply stopped. It stopped completely for such a long time that there was again a shortage, worse than before. I went once more to the Mother for Her help and told Her the whole story. She was displeased at my action in stopping the supply.

      She said to me that when we go to the Divine for help we must be prepared to receive it in whatever measure it comes. If the supplies were large, we should have enlarged our capacity to use them. To have stopped the supply, as I did, showed a great lack of understanding of the Divine's way of working and so was quite unspiritual.

- Udar-