Chapter 20

I Remained Only For the Sake of the Work

Words of the Mother

By acting from above, one can keep these things under control, hold them in place, prevent them from taking any unpleasant initiatives, but that’s not…. To transform means to transform.

Even mastery can be achieved – it’s quite easy to do from above. But for the transformation one must descend, and that is terrible…. Otherwise, the subconscient will never be transformed, it will remain as it is.

One can even pose as a superman! (Mother laughs) But it remains like that (gesture in the air), it’s not the real thing. It’s not the new creation, it’s not the next step in terrestrial evolution.

You might as well say, ‘Why are you in a hurry? Wait for Nature to do it.’ But Nature would take a few million years and in the process squander away a host of people and things. A few million years are unimportant to her – a passing breeze.

(silence)

Anyhow, I was sent here to do this work, so I am trying to do it, that’s all. I could have…. If it hadn’t been for the work, I would have left with Sri Aurobindo; there you have it. I remained only for the sake of the work – because it was there to be done and he told me to do it and I am doing it…. Otherwise, when one is perfectly conscious, one is far less limited without a body: one can see a hundred people at the same time, in a hundred different places, just as Sri Aurobindo is doing right now.