24 April

Some days in the life of great men and Avtars have a very symbolic importance. The Mother came first time Pondicherry on 29 march 1914 and got the Darshan of Sri Aurobindo. She understood it is the place where she is to do work whole the life. But due to circumstances of first world war she had to leave Pondicherry on 22 february 1915.

A question arises that do circumstances affect Avtars too. The answer is that outwardly it looks so but inwardly Avtars accept circumstances themselves to destroy them or to transform them.

In the life of Lord Krishna an Asur comes to kill him in the form of a big boa. And Lord Krishna enters to its stomach through its mouth with his friends willingly and knowingly and reaching in its stomach He expands himself. The stomach of boa was tore off to death. So He kills Asur by his own way.

When The Mother comes in 1914 she requests Sri Aurobindo to write something. Sri Aurobindo was not interested in any work of writing. But on the request of The Mother he accepted to write. A magazine named by ‘Arya’ was started and Sri Aurobindo wrote so many essays in series which we get in books form nowadays i.e. ‘The Life Divine’, ‘The Synthesis of Yoga’, ‘The Human Cycle’, ‘The Fundamentals of Indian Culture’, ‘Essays on The Gita’, ‘Secrets of Vedas’ and ‘The future Poetry’ etc.

Now if we take it as a symbol it was not the publication of Sri Aurobindo’s thoughts. It was a direct attack on forces of falsehood. When such a time comes these negative forces collect themselves to resist the work of positive side. And it resulted in first world war. Due to circumstances created by first world war The Mother had to leave Pondicherry. Outwardly The Mother accepted the circumstances but inwardly it is sure that it was just to destroy or transform the bad effects of first world war.

So when The Mother came to Pondicherry on 24 April 1920 as final arrival, she herself told for the incident:

‘‘My return to Pondicherry was the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces’’.