When the Mother looks at her own Darshan pictures, looks objectively, she gets a sort of feeling if she was a different person, sometimes an old Chinese, sometimes a transposition of Sri Aurobindo, and then sometimes a person whom she knows very well, but who is not this one. Could he not be a being that lived in a world other than the physical world of earth? It all appears strange, more and more so as the body catches the inner rhythm, moves in it. Possibly, it could be the original consciousness divided into two in a past life, manifested in two different bodies at the same time. But it may also be someone existing in a permanent way, in a permanent form somewhere with whom one is in constant contact in that world, overmental or supramental or other. The body by itself has more than a feeling, a kind of knowledge—it sees it as a fact. There are many, many beings, forces, personalities who manifest themselves through it, even sometimes several at the same time. And then it is Durga or Mahakali or often a being from very high up who manifests himself. Sometimes it is beings from a plane nearby who try to make themselves felt, who express themselves. This time, 24 November 1967, it was someone who looked from a plane of eternity, looked with a great benevolence, also with an absolute calm, almost indifference. The two are together, and this was the feeling of the body itself. The body was saying: “I must aspire, there must be an aspiration so that the Force may descend upon all these people.” All this the body feels as though something were making use of it.

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