...The Mother’s main work was to bring down the supramental consciousness in the material world, so that the physical transformation of the body could take place.

She did it. Now it is this supramental consciousness which will go on acting supramentally; it will bring about the transformative change. That is the absolute certainty of the expected result. That is the significance of the Mother’s passing away, justifying also the significance of Sri Aurobindo’s passing away. For the work of transformation he had to go, and it was she who had to do it. The Mother’s failure would have implied the failure of Sri Aurobindo’s move. That would have meant their failure. They would have come and done all in vain.

If we have to mark a few important stages in the process of physical transformation, we could briefly put these as follows: Sri Aurobindo’s descent into death, 1950; supramental manifestation in the earth’s subtle physical, 1956; realisation of the surhomme (overman) consciousness, 1958; consent for collaboration from the material Nature, 1958; the descent of the surhomme (overman) consciousness in 1969; the psychic being itself getting materialized, 1970; supramental body, 1972. It is the psychic being which will materialize itself and become the supramental being, she told on 1 July 1970. It is precisely the psychic being which survives death; so, if it materializes itself, it means the abolition of death. That is the central importance of the psychic being. Whatever is not in accordance with the Truth that disappears. Materialisation of the psychic being gives continuity to evolution. In the material world immortality thus means the materialization of the psychic being. The New Body makes it possible. Perhaps that is the process. Now it is the New Body which will do whatever is to be done. It is not an inert lump of matter, but is charged with luminous dynamism of the Truth-Force itself. It is going to exert pressure upon the physical in the evolutionary process...   more »