Chapter 61The Mother’s Lights · Seeing Light around the Mother

you are living more and more under it and it is that that is liberating you.

25 August 1934

* What you saw in vision was a supraphysical body of the Mother made probably of her white light which is the light of the Divine Consciousness and Force that stands behind the universe.

30 January 1935

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I am sending you a letter received from X. She has written her experiences and wants to know their meaning. She says that now she concentrates in the heart. Formerly she felt it was dark, but now, concentrating on the Mother and Sri Aurobindo for a long time, she sees a white ray in which their bodies become more brilliant.

The important experience is that of the white ray in the heart — for that is a ray of the Mother’s light, the white light, and the illumining of the heart by this light is a thing of great power for this sadhana. The intuitions she speaks of are a sign of the inner consciousness growing in her — the consciousness which is necessary for Yoga.

28 July 1937

* It [the Mother’s light] is always there in the inner Purusha.

* That means the light of the divine consciousness (the Mother’s Consciousness, white light) in the vital. Blue is the higher mind, gold the divine Truth. So it is the vital with the light of the higher mind and the divine Truth in it emanating the Mother’s light.

(a) It [the diamond light] means the essential Force of the Mother.

(b) The diamond light proceeds from the heart of the Divine Consciousness and it brings the opening of the Divine Consciousness wherever it goes. sanction of the Supreme Power to the movement in you. and power.

(e) The diamond light is the central consciousness and force of the Divine.

* golden hue.

12 October 1935

* The diamond is the symbol of the intensest light of the Mother’s consciousness, so your visions indicate that you saw her full of that light and radiating it. Other jewels must be symbols of other forces, the ruby indicating power in the physical.

23 February 1936

* The diamond is the symbol of the Mother’s consciousness; the colour depends on the particular force which her consciousness puts forth upon you at the moment.

14 April 1936

* The diamond is the symbol of the Mother’s light and energy — the diamond light is that of her consciousness at its most intense.

13 November 1936

Today at Pranam I saw a light like a golden thread coming from the Mother to me, but it vanished in a short time. Once I saw this light very clearly when she was standing on the terrace, just before coming down the staircase. Is this light from inside or outside? Since I saw it only for a while, I cannot believe my own eyes.

The golden Light is the light of the Divine Truth on the higher planes above the ordinary mind — a light supramental in origin. It is also the light of Mahakali above the mind. The golden light is also often seen emanating from the Mother like the white Light.

17 September 1933

* The line of golden light is a line of the light of the higher Divine Truth encircling the Akash of the heart and the diamond mass is the Mother’s light pressing into that Akash. It is therefore a sign of these powers working on the psychic-emotional centre.

17 December 1936

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One night I found a vast light, yellowish white, cool and peaceful, coming down from above. Is this the light of the higher mind consciousness or of some spiritual consciousness?

It depends on the shade of the yellow. If it is golden white it comes from above the mind and the combination suggests the Maheshwari-Mahakali power. Higher Mind colour is pale blue.

21 March 1938

Sometimes I see an outline of white light around Mother. Is it that truly I can see Mother’s Light?

Of course you can see it. Nowadays it is visible to many.

2 July 1933

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Last evening when the Mother was walking on the terrace I saw a light on her body. What was it?