Chapter 3The Mother and the Purpose of Her Embodiment · Sri Aurobindo’s Recognition of the Mother

inwardly above the human even in childhood, so the view held by “many” is erroneous.

I also conceive that the Mother’s Prayers are meant to show us — the aspiring psychic — how to pray to the Divine.

Yes.

17 August 1938

Am I right in thinking that the Mother as an individual embodies all the Divine Powers and brings down the Grace more and more to the physical plane . . .

Yes.

and that her embodiment is a chance for the entire physical to change and be transformed?

It is a chance for the earth-consciousness to receive the supramental into it and to undergo first the transformation necessary for that to be possible. Afterwards there will be a farther transformation by the supramental, but the whole earth-consciousness will not be supramentalised — there will be first a new race representing the supermind, as man represents the mind.

The more we open individually to the Mother’s Light and Force, the more her power is established in the universal — is it not so?

It is the transforming power that is established — the universal Power is always there.

13 August 1933

* world. The thousand petalled lotus and the plane or world that corresponds to it is only a means of communication between the