Mother's Mahasamadhi
(Nolini Kanta Gupta, April 1974:) “Since we have no longer the support of her body on which we depended almost exclusively, we are compelled to seek the true support, the support of her consciousness, her inner presence, her living Person within-the inner reality which her body represented, whose acquaintance we were not careful enough to cultivate. Now we are thrown back upon the only alternative available. The way will be arduous; we could have much more easily mounted up the ladder of consciousness with the aid of her body, almost playfully like children. Now a little bit of austerity will be needed on our part; the austerity will be needed to bring our external life and physical consciousness in line with her consciousness, to prepare them, to make them ready. Her material body offered an unconditional help and protection; now all that will be conditional – conditional upon our willing cooperation, our happy and conscious collaboration; of course the Grace will be always there. Once she asked us point-blank, for the crisis was upon us: “Are you ready?” Almost unthinkingly, in a gesture of bravado and gallantry, many answered: “Yes we are.” But we were not in fact. The task then for us and for the world is to make ourselves ready, that is to say, to make our physical being and consciousness free of the old reactions, instilling into them the consciousness that she is, and with which she still embraces us, so that when the next call comes, although the call is always there , we may answer with truth on our lips: “We are ready.” ”[1]
- ↑ Nolini Kanta Gupta, The Mother Abides: Final Reflections 1973-1983, p.6
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