India - the Mother

1930-31

The moment you rise to the Supermind,² you immediately perceive that the world is false and distorted.... Then how could the world be a true expression of the Divine?... We must avoid dangerously exaggerating the falsehood of this world, which is what happens to those who have risen to a higher consciousness. What happened to Shankara and others like him is that they caught a glimpse of the true consciousness, and that glimpse made the world's falsehood stand out so acutely that they asserted the universe was not only false, but a non-existent illusion to be entirely abandoned. As for us, we see that falsehood, but we also know that the universe must be changed, not abandoned as an illusion…. To express the divine Reality is truly our yoga.

Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Knowledge of the Scientist and the Yogi