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The Timeless in Time (Rhoda P. Le Cocq)

Article by Rhoda P. Le Cocq from the book 'The Radical

Thinkers - Heidegger and Sri Aurobindo'

As a Westerner, the idea of merely passing by these two (Sri Aurobindo and the Mother) with nothing being said, had struck me as a bit ridiculous.

I was still unfamiliar with the Hindu idea that such a silent meeting could afford an intensely spiritual impetus. I watched as I came up in line, and I noted that the procedure was to stand quietly before the two of them for a few silent moments, then to move on at a gesture from Sri Aurobindo. What happened next was completely unexpected.

As I stepped into a radius of about four feet, there was the sensation of moving into some kind of a force field. Intuitively, I knew it was the force of Love, but not what ordinary humans usually mean by the term...

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Then, all thought ceased, I was perfectly aware of where I was; it was not "hypnotism" as one Stanford friend later suggested. It was simply that during those few minutes, my mind became utterly still. It seemed that I stood there a very long, an uncounted time, for there was no time. Only many years later did I describe this experience as my having experienced the Timeless in Time. When there at the darshan, there was not the least doubt in my mind that I had met two people who had experienced what they claimed. They were Gnostic Beings. They had realized this New Consciousness which Sri Aurobindo called the Supramental. (Issue dt. July 2000)

(Rhoda P. Le Cocq, describing her experience of the last Darshan of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother on 24 November 1950.)

Courtesy: Auroville Today

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