add. to "The Six Visions"

I feel the inner urgency to explain you what my subtle perception suggests me:

It could only be Mother who could have the vision of the next great human connection to their Work.
 A being in connection with a farther revelation (through self achievement) of the supermental possibilities.
She had the revelatory vision of that a hundred years ago, and only a decade impeached  they both  coincide on earth. When she left, his birth was yet dawning on subtler levels of existence, where she could accede presenting us the transcendental meaning his birth would have on earth.

As soon as one reaches the original message of Dharma Sangha, one can´t avoid consider that his statements are but the continuity of the message of Sri Aurobindo and Mother.
On my opinion, the circumstance that he is now spreading his message mainly into a Buddhist context is partly to affect and revitalize it, connecting it to a more dynamic concept of the supermental reality (Maitreya Consciousness=Supermental Consciousness).
We should notice he said of himself:- I´m not a Buddhist.

As Sri Aurobindo, Dharma Sangha is not speaking of a Paradise elsewhere, but right here on earth. This is the substantial change he is bringing to Buddhism. Much as Sri Aurobindo represented a substantial change of the traditional yoga.
And they both meet at the same point.
What is of extraordinary importance here is that the visions of Mother convey as well the idea of an impelling Hour of God concomitant with that young siddhi of her visions to which Dharma Sangha so strangely resembles, a divinely predestined time, which allusions point exactly to here and now.

The overall presence of the Spirit upon the happenings of Mother´s images, her vision of the huge cross, (Christic Consciousness=Maitreya Consciousness) told Mother of a divinely sentenced time and Being, which inspired her the very words:
:Oh yes! I almost work with ardour and energy to hasten the hour....
in relation with the Being whose coming she was announcing.

Anyone who knows about the high attainments of Mother can ask himself how is it that from her spiritual heights she would feel so moved by the figure of the Being she saw.
The idea of the "Times of God" is not mine but is the logical consequence for anybody wishing to personally investigate and interested in the information contained in the "Six Visions".
Even so, I would not say that all related to the Supermental has always to do with great figures, I´m convinced at this very moment  there is quite a number of less known or even totally unknown persons, in which the Supermental is already pushing its way through.
The fact we may not be able to discern the working of the supermental in the actuality do not take necessarily to the conclusion that it is not working at all, and I´m afraid here it would only be a lack of perception on our side.

We should be realistic and consider that even if Dharma Sangha do not expressly or directly talk of the Supermind, yet, what this young man has achieved -thinking that he started his meditation alone in a jungle at about 13th- is at least worth of respect.

I myself am not given to devotional effusions towards human beings, because the commonsense suggests me that the Self I salute in the Guru is the Self in everyone.
But beside of the due respect, even if his teaching do not make any congruent sense to the student of integral yoga, yet it would be at least premature to state that D.S. has not relation at all with the Supermental because indeed, which other sense or direction should we give to it?
After all, the Supermental is not obliged to answer to our expectations about it.

Many times a doctrinal scheme may represent an obstacle on the way of a direct perception, and this is true on both side:
 while the Buddhist-minded people whom knows about D.S. has a tendency to ignore the aim of integral yoga and the message of Mother and Sri Aurobindo,
 the student and practitioner of integral yoga has the opposite tendency, and ignore or undervalue Dharma Sangha.

After all, even the message of Ramalinga Swami was not identical to Sri Aurobindo´s, and today a growing  number of people is convinced his Grace-Light was not different from the Supermental Light.
Whomever and whatever opens in the actuality, they open on the supermental possibilities and not any other, so the link subsists anyway.
 For Mother, the Person in her vision was of transcendental importance, as much as the Time of his appearance, there is no reason why for us  should be less important.

Mother´s pearls

When one is in the countryside, when one walks under the trees and feels so close to Nature, to the trees, the sky, all the leaves, all the branches, all the herbs, when one feels a great friendship with these things and breathes that air which is so good, perfumed with all the plants, then one opens oneself, and by opening oneself communes with the universal forces. And for all things it is like that!

Mother, on being like a flower

Be like a flower. One must try to become like a flower: open, frank, equal, generous and kind. Do you know what it means?
A flower is open to all that surrounds it: Nature, light, the rays of the sun, the wind, etc. It exerts a spontaneous influence on all that is around it. It radiates a joy and a beauty.
It is frank: it hides nothing of its beauty, and lets it flow frankly out of itself. What is within, what is in its depths, it lets it come out so that everyone can see it.
It is equal: it has no preference. Everyone can enjoy its beauty and its perfume, without rivalry. It is equal and the same for everybody. There is no difference, or anything whatsoever.
Then generous: without reserve or restriction, how it gives the mysterious beauty and the very own perfume of Nature. It sacrifices itself entirely for our pleasure, even its life it sacrifices to express this beauty and the secret of the things
gathered within itself.
And then, kind: it has such a tenderness, it is so sweet, so close to us, so loving. Its presence fills us with joy. It is always cheerful and happy.
Happy is he who can exchange his qualities with the real qualities of the flowers. Try to cultivate in yourself their refined qualities.
The Mother
in "Flowers - Their spiritual significance"
website: Blossom like a flower - Spiritual significance of flowers

Elements and meaning of the Six Visions

Beside the old man, the only  predominant figure of the 2nd vision is the young boy. He is about fourteen, long hair on the shoulders, long eyelashes upon downcast eyes. He is depicted in a remote wilderness, walking fearlessly alone under the moon light, tied to a sacred boon.

In the last part of the 6th vision is again a young man which takes prominence among a great number of celestial beings, which are pending by his leaps as he is about to deliver a message, as it seems, directed to gods and men. The nature of the message is one of redemption, and refers to a predestined moment in time when reaping is came and darkness is pushed away.
Later the young man seems to bear alone the entire burden of iniquity and confusion of the world, his long hair on both sides of his face which is turned toward earth with infinite tenderness and pain.
Mother ends her vision by hoping for a time in which the "effort of this sublime man will no longer be needed to prevent the black cloud from crushing the wretched men of earth"...
Were this young long haired man to exist and the vision be not merely symbolical but partly prophetical and  revelatory, by all evidence Mother refers to a person and facts ahead in the future, the past possibility remains totally invalidated.

The young man depicted has all the features of an ascetic, yogic figure, which sometimes seems to remain isolated in the wilderness.We can perceive stages in the story of the young man: the meeting with the old man, his leaving towards the isolated wilderness in which we ought to suppose he remains and not only crosses, probably practicing tapasya, and we may follow the story while he is evidently became a guru of gods and men. The huge cross which sustains the dark cloud, his bearing alone the iniquity, his deep compassion, talks to us of a christic figure in which the man has converted himself, and divinely empowered to take the very reins of some great change which seems to came by divine decree.

Since the time of this vision a hundred years are passed. A survey shows not constance yet of the appearance of such a person till recent times. Nowadays, six years ago, a kid of about 14 left the world to meditate in the jungle, his austere tapasya, his long hair, his achieved meditative goals makes of him probably the right candidate to vivify this revelatory vision, which suggests a very meaningful moment in the history of men.
Is Bhodi Shravan Dharma Sangha the name of the personage of the vision and are these the times right previous to the happenings related in the vision?

The Six Visions

(condensed from Mother´s 2nd Vision)
... as I turn round to identify the source of this light, I see a young boy of about fourteen  surrounded by a beautiful white radiance in which iridescent gleams can be seen. His flaxen hair falls in shapely curls upon his shoulders; his complexion is fair and delicate; his long eyelashes rest upon rose-tinted cheeks, for his eyes are downcast... Then the old man speaks.He tells the child, "Thus you are about to fulfil the task entrusted to you, which you have accepted of your own free will; you will accomplish it in accordance with the instructions I have given you.. be of good heart... the victory is sure.
Then, without word or gesture, the child slowly and solemnly turns... and see him leave... and walk swiftly  looking straight before him...
...allowing me to look with wonder on a great river, its waters flowing silver beneath the moonlight, its banks overgrown with a splendid and luxuriant vegetation... the trees with their crests that seem to touch the sky... the mountains... their summits covered with perpetual snow.
In the midst of this immensity I see a tiny oval of moving white light; it is the child walking firmly and surely upon his way, his head high, without fear or weakness.
This scene is full of grandeur; I contemplate it and muse, I muse and understand: what a man at the height of his strength would find hard to achieve if he were alone, a child can accomplish almost without difficulty if he is sustained by the power and love of those who are one with him.
                                                               

(condensed by Mother´s 6th Vision)
In faultless hierarchical order.. an immense host is deployed...they await a signal from the leader at their center, who is all radiant with iridescent light. But at once my gaze is drawn to a young man whose height and majesty tower above all the others. An ample amethyst cloak, lined with dazzling white, falls from his shoulders.
All stand still in rapt silence, for he is about to speak. He speaks, and his voice rises solemn and sweet. He speaks, and I understand what he is saying: "The time draws near. Let all prepare themselves, the host of earth and the host of heaven. Let those who work and endure lose neither courage nor patience. Though invisible to all but a few, the work is proceeding swiftly. On one side a growing order and harmony is driving towards the denser spheres whatever confusion and disorder still prevail. On the other hand, upon earth, the seed which has been sown is ready to rise amid a field of men of ardent and enlightened goodwill. The valiant host of evolving supermen is making ready so that when the time comes its efforts may be joined to ours. Soon a hymn of joy shall ring forth, the paean of triumph and glory."

Rejoicing in these words, I make my way back towards earth, bearing the glad tidings, and in my descent I am followed by the white dove with crimson feet. After passing the dark chasm, I look back and I see... Oh, what do I behold! ... The dark heavy cloud is supported by a huge cross, and both cloud and cross are borne by a being of colossal size. The entire burden of iniquity and disorder weighs upon him, who leans over mankind like a wonderful and living protection. His long hair falls on either side of his beautiful face, which is turned towards earth with a look of infinite tenderness and pain..

Oh yes! I almost work with ardor and energy to hasten the hour when the awesome effort of this sublime man will no longer be needed to hold the dark cloud in check and prevent it from crushing the wretched men of earth, unawakened and as yet unable to defend themselves!
 http://intyoga.online.fr/text_idx.htm,
 http://www.odinring.de/eng/vision6.htm

Mother, or the Yoga of the Vision

What in Sri Aurobindo was a torrential and enlightening flow of thoughts, in Mother was the Vision. In this, they were complementary. Mother -knew- by means of Vision, she dealt with visions as one deal with thoughts. It was her nature, lunar and oracular as the ancient priestess of the elysian temples. In her´s human shape, the Goddess dare intimate a while  with the humans, lifting a moment the veil that blinds Matter from Revelation.
The King of the Snakes or the gnome pays her homage as their natural mother and superior, she dealt with them as we deal with persons, and really, her nature results unfathomable to a description. Sri A. said she was an incarnation of the Universal Mother, and thus was considered by whom had the privilege to live around her.

We will see, how the power of vision is a knowledge integrated into that brilliant sphere of thoughts which Sri A. represented. So to say, two polarities of a same power of knowledge. The Intuitive and the Over-Rational.  Tough we shouldn't fall into too simplistic divisions.
In fact, the human beings learn both from that systematical study and scrutiny of the mind in search of the unquestionable truth, as much from the knowledge that comes with the direct occult and wordless perception. The first is represented by the yoga of knowledge, Raja Yoga, of which Sri A. would be a worth exponent, the nature of the second makes it rather inaccessible to scrutiny and rely on ancestral  tantric or lunar  practices and rituals in India or elsewhere, which cant be considered integral expressions of that Mother-knowledge.
Mother's note-books are certainly a good and trustworthy source of information wishing to explore a bit farther this fascinating field of occult knowledge and power, and we have a lot to learn from her Visions.

Evolution, the Yoga of Nature II

The fact that Sri Aurobindo ties so intimately Evolution, Life, and Yoga it hasn't a precedent on yogic literature, in fact, the references of canons on Yoga as that of Patanjali and other important works on the matter, rather look at earthly existence with the eyes of the sadhu and the ascetic, to which life in the body is but a provvisional ill. Least would be an ascetic worried about evolution of that life.
By this plural tiding, we have a reassessment of the concept and role of older yoga connecting it to a more scientific perspective and in accordance with the requirements of a modern inquiring mind, together with a "spiritualization" of the scientific, evolutionist point of view.

Sri Aurobindo not only tied yoga to evolution, but even made that yoga evolve. A fuller life in the body was never the aim of the older yoga, which always saw the body as an obstacle and a proscript from diviner spheres of existences. Sri A. shacked that belief in its very foundation, and re proposed the body as worth to share  the spiritual adventure. This is the most remarkable and progressive difference between  his Yoga and the previous ascetic or religious tradition searching for salvation in the "after-life", a Yoga definitive in its postulate: it is here and into this body that the spiritual realization has to be achieved.

"We have turned space into a gulf of peace
And made the body a Capitol of bliss.
What more, what more, if more must still be done?”

And we can really say that from that moment, Yoga was definitively transformed, revitalized and will never get back on its previous bases. As a result of his intervention, we have a quite modern positioning of his yoga, its tiding with evolution is due to the fact that in contradiction with the evolutionist, Sri Aurobindo considers evolution as a process which has not reached yet its purpose.
We have seen above that Sri Aurobindo considers the present times as the moment in evolution when the human race finally starts to perceive the driving forces of Life and Yoga.
It is more of a supposition, as there exist written registers of commentaries of Mother on the beginning of a -factual manifestation- upon earth of the Supermental Consciousness, the name they coined for that approaching possibility and Force.

FIRST SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION
(During the common meditation on Wednesday the 29th February 1956)
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.
(English text in CWM, volume 15, "Words of the Mother 3", page 202 published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry, diffusion by SABDA

The evening I told you about these things, I identified myself totally with Nature, I joined in her game. And this movement of identification provoked a response, a sort of new intimacy between Nature and myself, a long movement of a growing closeness which culminated in an experience which came on the eighth of November.

Suddenly Nature understood.
She understood that this new Consciousness which has just been born does not seek to reject her but wants to embrace her entirely, she understood that this new spirituality does not turn away from life, does not recoil in fear before the formidable amplitude of her movement, but wants on the contrary to integrate all its facets. She understood that the supramental consciousness is here not to diminish but to complete her.

Then from the supreme Reality came this order, "Awake, 0 Nature, to the joy of collaboration." And the whole of Nature suddenly rushed forward in a great surge of joy, saying, "I accept, I shall collaborate."
And at the same time, there came a calm, an absolute tranquility so that the bodily vessel could receive and contain, without breaking, without losing anything, the mighty flood of this Joy of Nature which rushed forward as in a movement of gratitude. She accepted, she saw with all eternity before her that this supramental consciousness was going to fulfill her more perfectly, give a still greater strength to her movement, a greater amplitude, more possibilities to her play.

And suddenly I heard, as if they came from all the corners of the earth, those great notes one sometimes hears in the subtle physical, a little like those of Beethoven's Concerto in D-major, which come in moments of great progress, as though fifty orchestras had burst forth all in unison, without a single false note, to express the joy of this new communion between Nature and Spirit, the meeting of old friends who come together again after having been separated for so long.

Then these words came, "O Nature, material Mother, thou hast said that thou wilt collaborate and there is no limit to the splendour of this collaboration."
And the radiant felicity of this splendour was sensed in perfect peace.
That is how the message for the new year was born.
The Mother
in CWM, volume 9, "Questions and Answers 1957-1958" pages 245-248  published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry diffusion by SABDA

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From: Evening Talks
Disciple: You said that in 1934 Supermind was ready to descend but not a single Sadhak was found prepared. So it withdrew. But you told me once that the descent of Supermind does not depend on readiness of Sadhaks.
Sri Aurobindo: If none is ready to receive how will the Supermind manifest itself? But instead of thinking of Supermind one has first to open oneself to Intuition.

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