Prabartak Sangh
- (A. B. Purani:) “Is there any truth in the idea that every great Vibhuti who brings anything new into the manifestation builds, first of all, what is called a Yogapitha – a ‘seat for yoga’? Each man who goes by his path reaches that ‘yogapitha’ and each Sadhaka has its place there. When once such a Pitha-pedestal is made then anyone who comes afterwards finds it very easy to reach it because there is a passage already made.
(Sri Aurobindo, 1926:) I can tell you, I am building nothing over there [in the Supramental world]. I do not know what is to come. If there is anything in the Supramental I don't know it. You are not always allowed to know it. It is a plane where you find ‘what is’ – there is no necessity to build or construct anything there.
I know some people make such constructions as the Yogapitha and so on. One can always find these things, because many things from the mental plane are always trying to realise themselves here. These constructions are generally on the mental plane and they may even have some truth behind them – not in the forms and constructions themselves.
But even where there is some truth behind them it gets mixed up with many other things which sometimes falsifies the truth behind it.
- Perhaps all sorts of vital forces come and take advantage of it.
Yes, it is for this reason that I am not for rushing to work at once. Such a thing would not be the expression of the Truth. We have to wait till the Truth through us finds its own expression. I myself got the idea of the Supramental after ten years of Sadhana. The Supramental does not come in the beginning but at the end. It is a progressive Truth.
- Do you remember a vision Vibhuti Babu once had?
No.
- He saw a yogapuri – a city of yoga – in which there were different circles of Sadhaks round a Guru in the centre of each group. Vibhuti wanted to join the circle but he was not allowed because he had not the ‘pass-word’. There were watchmen also.
It looks more of the vital plane than anything else. There are people who get symbolic vision and when they see the work not accomplished they generally see it as an unfinished building, or a building where workmen are still working. That is only a symbolic way of representing the yoga and its condition and even at that it is not exact but gives only a general idea.
Do you refer to Chandernagore when you speak about the ‘vital forces’?
- Yes.
At the time I had some construction in my mind. Of course, there was something behind it which I knew to be true. Even then I was not sure that it would work out successfully. Anyway, I wanted to give it a trial and gave that idea to Motilal. Then he took up the idea and, as you know, he took it up with all his vital being and in an egoistic way. So the vital forces found their chance. They tried to take possession of the work and of the workers.
It is after several such lessons that I had to give up of rushing into work. This yoga is not a cut-out system. It is a growth by experience.
- Did you ever put your power against it?
No, I did nothing of the kind. The only thing I did was to put the force so that those who were worth anything should be drawn out of it. I have forgotten all about it. In fact, I have long ago put away Chandernagore from my atmosphere. There was nothing of the Supramental there.”[1]
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