October 19, 2011 – Siddhi Day – Day of Victory

The north-country Indian herdsman, attacked by fever,
sits in the chill stream of a river for an hour or more & rises up free & healthy.
If the educated man did the same, he would perish,
not because the same remedy in its nature kills one & cures another,
but because our bodies have been fatally indoctrinated by the mind into false habits.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 389)

Siddhi Day – Day of Victory

On 24 November 1926, The Mother saw Sri Aurobindo emerge from his room in the evening, She new immediately that something important has happened in the History of the Earth and Universe. She sent words to all the sadhaks and asked them to assemble in the upper verandah of the Library House. By six all were there, all twenty four including Champaklal, Nolini, Amrita, Pavitra, Barin, Purani, Datta, Pujalal, Rajangam and Chandrasekharam. What happen there is as in Purani’s words:

There was a deep silence in the atmosphere after the disciples had gathered there. Many saw an oceanic flood of Light rushing down from above. Everyone present felt a kind of pressure above his head. The whole atmosphere was surcharged with some electrical energy. In that silence ….. the usual, yet on this day unusual, tick was heard behind the door of the entrance. Expectation rose in flood. Sri Aurobindo and The Mother could be seen through the half closed door. The Mother with a gesture of her eyes requested Sri Aurobindo to step out first. Sri Aurobindo with a similar gesture suggested to her to do the same. With a slow dignified step the Mother came out first, followed by Sri Aurobindo with his majestic gait…. The Mother sat on a small stool to his right.Silence absolute, living silence- not merely living but out flowing with divinity. The meditation lasted about forty-five minutes. After that one by one the disciple bowed to the Mother.

She and Sri Aurobindo gave blessings to them. Whenever a disciple bowed to the Mother, Sri Aurobindo’s right hand came forward behind the Mother’s as if blessing him through the Mother. After the blessings, in the same silence there was a short meditation.

In the interval of silent meditation and blessings many had distinct experiences… it was certain that a Higher Consciousness had descended on earth…
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother went inside.

Immediately Datta was inspired. In that silence she spoke:
” The Lord has descended into the physical today “.

The Mother

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