Footprints of God

Dawn of a New World

The Force is here

July 6, 1914

... the formidable omnipotence of Thy Force which is here, ready for the manifestation, waiting, building the propitious hour, the favourable opportunity: the incomparable splendour of Thy victorious sovereignty.

The Force is here. Rejoice, O you who are waiting and hoping: the new manifestation is sure, the new manifestation is at hand.

The Force is here.

All nature exults and sings in gladness, all nature is at a festival: The Force is here. Arise and live; arise and be illuminated; arise and battle forthe transfiguration of all:

The Force is here.

A new world is born: A promise fulfilled*

29 February 1956: During the common meditation at the Playground

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.

*

29 Feb — 29 March [1956]

Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born.

The things that were promised are fulfilled. 24 April 1956

The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality.

It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.

24 April 1956

The manifestat ion of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact , a reality.

It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind , the most unconscious , even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.

The Mother

* On 29 February 1956 the Supramental Consciousness manifested upon earth as foretold, promised and
worked for by SriAurobindo and the Mother.

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Formation of a Centre for Integral Education : 24 April 1951

Sri Aurobindo is present in our midst, and with all the power of his creative genius he presides over the formation of the University Centre which for years he considered as one of the best means of preparing the future humanity to receive the supramental light that will transform the elite of today into a new race manifesting upon earth the new light and force and life.

The Mother

Beginning of a gnostic community:

If we are spread out everywhere as individuals, something no doubt will be done; if we are spread out everywhere in the form of a sangha, a hundred times more will be accomplished. But the time has not yet come for this. If we try to give it form hastily, it will not be the exact thing I want. The sangha will at first be in a diffused form. Those who have accepted the ideal, although bound together, will work in different places. Afterwards, bound into a sangha with a form like a spiritual commune, they will shape all their activities according to the Self and according to the needs of the age. Not a fixed and rigid form like that of the old Aryan society, not a stagnant backwater, but a free form that can spread itself out like the sea with its multitudinous waves — engulfing this, inundating that, absorbing all — and as this continues, a spiritual community will be established.

Sri Aurobindo

For a very long time the Ashram was only a gathering of individuals, each one representing something, but as an individual and without any collective organisation. ... This lasted a very long time — very long. And it is only quite recently that the need for a collective reality began to appear — which is not necessarily limited to the Ashram but embraces all who have declared themselves — I don't mean materially but in their consciousness — to be disciples of Sri Aurobindo and have tried to live his teaching. Among all of them, and more strongly since the manifestation of the supramental Consciousness and Force, there has awakened the necessity for a true communal life, which would not be based only on purely material circumstances but would represent a deeper truth, and be the beginning of what Sri Aurobindo calls a supramental or gnostic community.... *

The Mother

21 August 1957

*The Mother founded the Sri Aurobindo Society on 19 September 1960 with herself as its President, to make known to the members and people in general the aims and ideals of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, their system of integral Yoga and to work for its fulfilment in all possible ways and for the attainment of a spiritualised society as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo. Subsequently Auroville was born on 28 February 1968 to realise the Ideal of Human Unity through willing service to the Divine.

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