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          Of course the point need not be laboured that what the Mother relates is somewhat unusual, even bizarre. But let us imagine a different scenario. Let us reverse roles. What if Sri Aurobindo had had the above experience? How would it have been received? We may go further and question, What if the chamber plan had come through Sri Aurobindo? Would his entourage have dared to treat that Vision with the same indifference, disrespect and disbelief that the Mother experienced? We all know the answer (though we also know that certain disciples were impertinent enough to question passages in Savitri, to which the Mother herself took exception).
          The answer is Sri Aurobindo had the right gender and skin colour. Because of that the Vedic content we are revealing in these Chronicles, and prior to MAC in numerous other publications, would have been upheld as sacrosanct rather than rubbished by disciples who had no preparation whatsoever to deal with numbers and astrology and Vedic sciences. These ‘wisemen’ were quick to trash them all, even when the Mother had placed her full seal and sanction on the connection they bear to the operations of the Superman Consciousness, as explicitly revealed in the above dialogue.
          There has always been a phenomenal consistency and coherency in the experiences the Mother was having through the years following the Supramental Manifestation. The problem lay in the disciples she was addressing who had their own ideas and preferred to discard hers without making any effort to understand just what this 90-year old Seer was talking about. She was treated as one often finds the aged treated: she was humoured. The result is the centreless Void that stands at the heart of Auroville, and the ‘symbol-goal’ the Ashram offers as the finality of the quest.
          Disconnected, lacking integration, none of that is the Truth-Consciousness, the luminous Gnosis.

Matrimandir Action Committee
17 June 2003

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