Chapter 22The Mother, the Divine and the Lower Nature · The One and the Supreme Mother

X came to our house. I asked him, “First, one Mother must be born, then another Mother, then another Mother, is it not so? Who is the Mother who was first born before the others were born? How did She come to exist?” He said he did not know, but that Sri Aurobindo and Mother would know and can tell me. Therefore please reply so that I can know everything clearly.

The first mother is the “Mother” — the eternal Mother; she always exists, she has no beginning or end.

4 March 1933

and the Lower Nature Please explain to me what is meant by the Divine Mother.

The Divine Mother is the Consciousness and Force of the Divine — which is the Mother of all things.

24 June 1933

* sciousness and force of the Ishwara, but here my experience is that the Ishwara is the consciousness and force of the Supreme Mother. Could you please make it clear to me?

it may be said, she is the Divine in its consciousness-force. The Ishwara as Lord of the Cosmos does come out of the Mother who takes her place beside him as the cosmic Shakti — the cosmic Ishwara is one aspect of the Divine. The experience therefore is correct so far as it goes.

16 November 1934 The experience of the Mother being the Supreme is the Tantrik experience — it is one side of the Truth.

* The Tantrics used to invoke Shakti in their sadhana. Was it the same Force and Consciousness that is in the Mother here?

It depends on what they invoked — it was usually some aspect of the Mother that they called.