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The opening line of Savitri ’It was the hour before the gods awake,’ thus opens the cosmic curtain giving us a glimpse into the workings of the supreme Drama of Involution. The first ’scene’ that is etched out is:
”Across the path of the divine Event
The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone
In her unlit temple of eternity,
Lay stretched immobile upon silence’ marge.”
The ’huge foreboding mind of Night’ lies across the path of ’the divine Event.’ It is ’the dark vacancy’ lying ’across the path of the
creation yet to be, the light that is to come’. But, what is that ’divine Event’ which is about to take birth and which is being blocked by Night? Nalinida says, ”It is the pre-creation before the creation - the
shadow creation. We know coming events cast their shadow before, as a kind of forewarning, foreboding: that is the dark messenger, the bright messenger will follow. For after all, it is His shadow -. And into the
midnight his shadow is thrown.” (Vol. 4: 305)
The Mother, ’the eye-witness’ of this ’divine Event’, gives us a simple explanation of the Event. In her own words: ”There is an ancient tradition
which describes the creation as done by some first emanations of the supreme Mother, who were four emanations.”
In the sense and the feeling of their supreme power, they cut connection with their Origin and became independent. And then, these emanations, being
separated from their Origin, entered into darkness.
The first one was Consciousness, Consciousness in Light, and by cutting Himself from His Origin He went down and down towards Unconsciousness. The
second was Bliss and turned into Suffering. The third was Truth and turned into Falsehood. The fourth one was Life and turned into Death.
This happened after they came down into the level of the vital level. When this was seen, it was decided that some second emanations would be made to
repair the mistake of the first, and the second emanations were the gods.
This first line refers to the condition of the world before the gods were born.
Sri Aurobindo says, ”It was the hour before the gods awake”.
As the result of this separation, between the first emanations and their Origin, the creation by these first emanations had become obscure,
inconscient. And that is what Sri Aurobindo describes here. He says, ”the divine Event,” that is creation - the creation that will go on and on for eternity. It started with what He called the Night - the Night of
the foreboding mind. It is unconscious, immobile, lifeless, blind. All these things - the obscurity and the unconsciousness, the immobility, lifelessness, the unbodied Infinite, and a fathomless zero - all these
words are meant to express the Nothingness of the world.” (About Savitri)
I mentioned in the beginning that the Mother was the ’eye-witness’ of this ’divine Event’. It is so because the supreme Mother is the creatrix of the
universe. A disciple once asked our Mother, ”In India usually it is said that Brahma is the creator”. And the Mother replied: ”But Sri Aurobindo has said that the Supreme Mother is the mother of Brahma. She is the
Mother of all the gods.”
And the Supreme Mother, as we know, is none else than our Mother herself. In fact, she herself confirmed this when a disciple questioned her: ”Sweet Mother, here you speak of the Supreme
Mother. Is she the same as the one Sri Aurobindo speaks of in ‘The Mother’?”- ”Yes”, replied the Mother. And finally, when a disciple asked Sri Aurobindo in 1938, ”Do you not refer to the Mother (Our Mother)
in your book The Mother? He answered, ”YES”. Thus the Mother is not only the eye-witness of the creation but herself the creation for she is the Consciousness of the supreme Divine. Indeed, it is difficult to
believe, but in reality, those of us who have seen Her ”... have looked upon the face of God, Our life has opened with divinity”.
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