01: The Yoga of the Cells by the Mother
by
RY Deshpande
on Tue 06 Oct 2009 03:30 AM IST
The Mother spoke of two aspects of her work: Ascent and Descent. The first consisted of realising the highest possible transcendental states, akin to the Vedic climbing up of the ascending slopes of heaven, ranges and ranges rising above the worlds of Ignorance. She says that it was a much easier task and she accomplished it at a very early stage of her spiritual life. In fact already by 1911 she had discovered the Mantra and spoke of making a resolution to raise ourselves “towards the Supreme Light… so that it may pervade us entirely and illumine with its great brilliance our minds and hearts, all our thoughts and our actions.” The path of Descent was a much tougher one and she took it up after meeting Sri Aurobindo in 1914. But the real decisive work on it began after 1956. This is the work related to the manifestation of the Supreme Light even in this world of Ignorance.
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