In her prayer dated 25 September 1914 the Mother had said that the hour of realisations was near and that she was acting as an intermediary between the unthinkable realities and the physical world, that she was here to execute what the Lord had willed, fulfil the things that were promised. The task defined for “us” was as follows:

 

A new Light shall break upon the earth.

A new world shall be born,

And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled.

 

The fulfilment of the promise came after an intense yoga-tapasya of forty-two years. The Mother announced the Supramental Manifestation that had taken place on 29 February 1956 in two messages published in the Bulletin of April 1956:

 

29 February—29 March

 

Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute:

A new light breaks upon the earth,

A new world is born.

The things that were promised are fulfilled.

 

 The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality. It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.

 

29 February 1956

During the Common Meditation on Wednesday

 

This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine.

 

As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that the time has come, and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces.

 

Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow.

 

In her talk entitled The True Adventure in the November 1957 the Mother said: “Last year when I announced the manifestation of the supramental consciousness and light and force, I should have added that it was an event forerunner of the birth of a new world.”

 

She was then asked a pointed question: “This means that the new world was born after the supramental consciousness manifested. You have fixed the 29th February 1956 as the date of the supramental manifestation. Which date after that should be taken as the date of the birth of the new world?”

 

The Mother replied: “Half an hour later.”

 

The Mother also declared: “A new world is born, born, born.” It was not the old world transformed, but it was a new world that had taken birth. Her task was done and she was not overstaying after 1956. She was preparing us to receive the Grace.

 

Once the Mother asked Sri Aurobindo: “After the descent of the Supermind, how long do you think the process of transformation will take?” Sri Aurobindo looked up and told her: “Perhaps 300 years.” Later the Mother added: “He said 300 years, but you know there is something like Grace—anything can take place.” How wonderful! She wanted to make even the will of the physical to be one with the Will of the Supreme. She was now occupied with it.


When the Mother first met Sri Aurobindo, on 29 March 1914, she was in deep prayerful concentration. In it she saw things in the Supermind; she was seeing things that were to be but somehow were not manifesting. She narrated to Sri Aurobindo what she saw and asked him if they would manifest. He simply said, “Yes.” And immediately she saw that the Supramental had touched the earth and was beginning to be realized! This was the first time, she says, she had witnessed the power to make real what is true, the power of that “Yes”.

 

The Supermind had touched the earth on 29 March 1914. The yogic tapasya was now directed to fix it permanently in the earth’s physical. The Mother’s total surrender to the Lord is the only means to achieve the glorious miracle. The change had already occurred.

 

RY Deshpande