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Indeed, it is the innermost secret of the soul itself. In the powerful imagery of the Puranic myth, it is Guha, the divine Son ‘hidden in the cave’ (of the heart).       

‘I had hoped to build a rainbow bridge’   
The Mother has been very clear about the work she carried out since 1956; or rather, what was entrusted to her care. There were certain boundaries to be respected that she described from time to time after 1956. Those boundaries kept her engaged in a labour ‘on the other side’, in the subtle dimensions though very close to the Earth. But still not here, which means that it was not yet rooted in this special act of Becoming. Apart from the dialogue quoted at the top of this Chronicle, there is another that draws our attention to the ‘boundaries’ when Supermind becomes active and creates its own conditions of manifestation. This was her 3 February 1958 description of precisely the work she was doing ‘on the other side’. In that dimension her experience took the form of a ship. It was in a supramental plane but she was very clear that there was a ‘missing link’ with the physical Earth. A ‘bridge’ had yet to be constructed linking these dimensions so that the Truth-Consciousness could become established here. ‘When I came back, simultaneously with the recollection of the experience I knew that the supramental world is permanent, that my presence there is permanent, and that only a missing link was necessary for the connection to be made in the consciousness and the substance, and it is this link which is now being forged…’ (Emphasis ours.)
          It is in constructing this Bridge that time and space and measure become active ingredients. That is the method of rooting the Supermind in the Earth; and it is the only means. In other words, the Divine Measure has to be re-established so that what the Mother accomplished ‘up above’ can be brought down into what she called an ‘intermediate zone’ (the Bridge); the Mother was well aware of the fact that this was the ‘missing link’. And moreover, she understood that one Avatar would not suffice and that a ‘line in time’ was required; and perhaps in space as well. Indeed, the Bridge does cover spatial dimensions that could not be traversed without the powers ‘from below’. Supermind creates its own conditions of manifestation and it has done so impeccably for the Solar and Lunar Lines. No area of the labour has been left unattended because the four planes of existence must be covered. In fact, it is when the fourth plane needs to be integrated – the work of our own times – that all the threads can be pulled together and the ‘total Knowledge’, as the Mother intuited, can be given out. Before all four became active it was not possible.
          The construction of the Bridge is the work of the Third in the Solar Line. It can come into being and thus provide that ‘missing link’, only when perfect centering and alignment have been yogically integrated into the Supramental Descent because the Bridge traverses the chasm between those subtle and dense worlds. This means that it is not an accomplishment external to the deepest truth of material creation. It has to be rooted in its deepest heart. Therefore the Centre is the field-boundary of the Third. And the Mother’s plan is her legacy, with which she has carried out that ‘future realisation’ just as it has been described by the Mother.
          None of this has been kept secret. All along both the Mother and Sri Aurobindo have noted exactly how the Supramental Descent would take place. Particularly after 1956 there are numerous dialogues in which the Mother makes her position clear, even to the point of noting her ‘boundaries’.

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