This is the eighth and last in the series of articles Sri Aurobindo wrote during 1949-50 and it had appeared first in the 24 November 1950 issue of the Bulletin d' Education Physique (Bulletin of Physical Education). The following is absolutely the last piece of Sri Aurobindo’s prose writings. This article was probably dictated towards the end of September or early in November 1950.

It is in this series of the order of existence and as the last word of the lower hemisphere of being, the first word of the higher hemisphere that we have to look at the Mind of Light and see what is its nature and the powers which characterise it and which it uses for its self-manifestation and workings, its connection with Supermind and its consequences and possibilities for the life of a new humanity.

It seems that Sri Aurobindo wanted to develop the series “to look at the Mind of Light” further to characterise the type of New Humanity that will be formed, a humanity paving the path for the arrival of the Gnostic Race and in the progressive sequel of the Divine Life upon Earth. Sri Aurobindo’s own withdrawal on 5 December 1950 was a yogic act in that direction.

But absolutely the last piece of Sri Aurobindo’s creative writings is the 72-line passage (589 words) in Savitri dictated around 15 November 1950, just three weeks before his self-willed withdrawal. It appears in the Book of Fate which he had picked up again for the last revision, the Book that was already published on one or two occasions. Actually, this cannot be called a revision; it was an addition made with a definite intention, indicating the prophetic nature of the Mother’s work of the Supramental Descent and Transformation. Here is the passage:

Queen, strive no more to change the secret will;
Time's accidents are steps in its vast scheme. …
Think not to intercede with the hidden Will,
Intrude not twixt her spirit and its force
But leave her to her mighty self and Fate.

So, absolutely the last line is: “But leave her to her mighty self and Fate.” It seems interesting, the last word uttered by Sri Aurobindo in his literary compositions was “Fate”. In any case, this marks the completion of the long writing career beginning from the series New Lamps for Old on 7 August 1893 and coming to an end in mid-November 1950. It started with “If the blind lead the blind, shall they not both fall into a ditch?”, the end coming in the phrase “her mighty self and Fate”. Her mighty self and Fate, the divine Shakti and Niyati, that is the theme of the Transcendental’s working in this mortal Creation.

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