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The Mother’s Lights
Yesterday when the Mother came down in the evening to give Darshan, I saw her face shining with crimson light like the sun when it rises in the morning. What is the meaning of crimson light? Crimson light indicates the manifestation of love in the material atmosphere. 5 July 1933
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When I write to the Mother I often see flashes of light which are tiny, round and of different colours —white, gold, green, blue and yellow. What are they? When you write, you put yourself probably in contact with the Mother’s forces —these lights of different colours are the play of her forces. 14 October 1933
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Looking at the Mother on the terrace in the evening, I saw a dark blue light around her like the colour of the flower named “Radha’s consciousness”. Is the light around her of different colours? For I have also seen white light around her many times, and sometimes a pretty pale blue light. There are various lights around the Mother indicating the forces that come from her. White is her own characteristic light, the pale blue is mine, —the golden, dark blue and others correspond to various other forces. 26 October 1933
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We normally see your force working in us as a pale blue light and the Mother’s force working as a white light. But today
Page – 262 I saw a red —coloured force working in me, red like a lotus flower. Was this your force too? It must have been a special force working. The blue light is the characteristic force as the white is of the Mother, but we are not limited to that, the other forces and therefore the other lights are also ours. 24 November 1933
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Today I saw emerging from the Mother the whitish blue light of Sri Aurobindo. Why did I see it so? Is it because both are the same? All the lights are put out by the Mother from herself. 6 March 1934
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Today at Pranam while feeling the Mother’s Powers pouring into me, I saw the sacred word মা [Ma] inscribed in dark blue light in the corner of my breast below the right shoulder. Does it have any significance? It means the impression of the Name with its power in some part of the being —(vital mental). 9 April 1934
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The lights are the Mother’s Powers —many in number. The white light is her own characteristic power, that of the Divine Consciousness in its essence. 15 July 1934
Last night I got contact with the Light and prayed for its descent. But it got lost as soon as my mind began to get into a white peaceful Mother’s consciousness. That was quite right. The contact with the Light must create peace.
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I felt myself in a mind all white, but each time I tried it was impossible to get a rapid downward pull of the Light. After that I got into feelings and nice sensations in the body, but they took me down to a low state. (1) The Mother’s consciousness (white) is not only peace, but Light and Power. (2) When one gets into contact with the Light above the mind, the first result should be peace in the mind. (3) Whatever Power of the Light descends should descend into the peace of the mind without disturbing it. (4) If you pull down the Light into an active mind, then the action of the Light may get deformed and may be used by the mind in a wrong way, with confusion and disturbance or for purposes and movements that are those of an inferior consciousness and not those of the Truth. (5) There cannot be any real incompatibility between the Mother’s consciousness and contact with the Light above. 2 June 1932
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What is the colour of the light around the Mother? The Mother’s special colour is white, but all the other colours are hers also. 7 June 1933
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In the evening when the Mother came out, I saw a huge white light following behind her. At first I thought it was an illusion, but when I kept on looking at it I knew it was no illusion. I was full of joy. The white light is the Mother’s light and it is always around her. 22 August 1933
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Today at Pranam I saw a pale blue light around the Mother. Is pale blue the colour of her light?
Page – 264 The pale blue light is my light —white light is the Mother’s (sometimes gold also). People generally see either the white or both the white and the pale blue around her. 4 September 1933
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When the Mother comes on the terrace in the evening, I often see white light around her; it is clearly visible around her body and sometimes the top of the whole building seems to emit light. One day I thought that there may be a background of light behind all material things which can be seen physically. Is it true? Is there any systematic process to open oneself to that physical vision? The white Light around the Mother is the Mother’s own light —that of the Divine Consciousness. Many nowadays are able to see it around her when she is on the roof. One can also see all objects in this light —it means that the light has descended here and is floating around everything. 10 September 1933
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Last night after eight o’clock after returning from work, I sat for meditation. My mind and vital became quiet and opened to the Mother. My heart became vast and opened to her. Then in this quietness something very soothing descended from my chest down to my navel and below it. Then, below the navel, I saw a bright white light penetrating and it filled the whole area with light; then it rose up above the navel till even the head was filled with light. I am unable to express the peace and quietness I felt at that time. The peace was very pure. Now whenever I sit for meditation, I see a very white light coming around me. The white Light is the Mother’s light. Wherever it descends or enters, it brings peace, purity, silence and the openness to the higher forces. If it comes below the navel, that means that it is working in the lower vital. 31 July 1934
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The Mother’s white light is the light of the Divine Consciousness; you are living more and more under it and it is that that is liberating you. 25 August 1934
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What you saw in vision was a supraphysical body of the Mother made probably of her white light which is the light of the Divine Consciousness and Force that stands behind the universe. 30 January 1935
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I am sending you a letter received from X. She has written her experiences and wants to know their meaning. She says that now she concentrates in the heart. Formerly she felt it was dark, but now, concentrating on the Mother and Sri Aurobindo for a long time, she sees a white ray in which their bodies become more brilliant. The important experience is that of the white ray in the heart —for that is a ray of the Mother’s light, the white light, and the illumining of the heart by this light is a thing of great power for this sadhana. The intuitions she speaks of are a sign of the inner consciousness growing in her —the consciousness which is necessary for Yoga. 28 July 1937
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It [the Mother’s light] is always there in the inner Purusha.
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That means the light of the divine consciousness (the Mother’s Consciousness, white light) in the vital. Blue is the higher mind, gold the divine Truth. So it is the vital with the light of the higher mind and the divine Truth in it emanating the Mother’s light.
(a) It [the diamond light] means the essential Force of the Mother.
Page – 266 (b) The diamond light proceeds from the heart of the Divine Consciousness and it brings the opening of the Divine Consciousness wherever it goes. (c) The Mother’s descent with the diamond light is the sanction of the Supreme Power to the movement in you. (d) The Mother’s diamond light is a light of absolute purity and power. (e) The diamond light is the central consciousness and force of the Divine.
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The Mother’s light is white —especially diamond white. The Mahakali form is usually golden, of a very bright and strong golden hue. 12 October 1935
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The diamond is the symbol of the intensest light of the Mother’s consciousness, so your visions indicate that you saw her full of that light and radiating it. Other jewels must be symbols of other forces, the ruby indicating power in the physical. 23 February 1936
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The diamond is the symbol of the Mother’s consciousness; the colour depends on the particular force which her consciousness puts forth upon you at the moment. 14 April 1936
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The diamond is the symbol of the Mother’s light and energy —the diamond light is that of her consciousness at its most intense. 13 November 1936
Today at Pranam I saw a light like a golden thread coming from the Mother to me, but it vanished in a short time. Once I saw this light very clearly when she was standing on the
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terrace, just before coming down the staircase. Is this light from inside or outside? Since I saw it only for a while, I cannot believe my own eyes. The golden Light is the light of the Divine Truth on the higher planes above the ordinary mind —a light supramental in origin. It is also the light of Mahakali above the mind. The golden light is also often seen emanating from the Mother like the white Light. 17 September 1933
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The line of golden light is a line of the light of the higher Divine Truth encircling the Akash of the heart and the diamond mass is the Mother’s light pressing into that Akash. It is therefore a sign of these powers working on the psychic —emotional centre. 17 December 1936
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One night I found a vast light, yellowish white, cool and peaceful, coming down from above. Is this the light of the higher mind consciousness or of some spiritual consciousness? It depends on the shade of the yellow. If it is golden white it comes from above the mind and the combination suggests the Maheshwari —Mahakali power. Higher Mind colour is pale blue. 21 March 1938 Seeing Light around the Mother Sometimes I see an outline of white light around Mother. Is it that truly I can see Mother’s Light? Of course you can see it. Nowadays it is visible to many. 2 July 1933
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Last evening when the Mother was walking on the terrace I saw a light on her body. What was it?
Page – 268 Many see light around the Mother. The light is there always. 26 July 1933
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Today as soon as the Mother took her seat in the Pranam Hall I saw that white light was playing both on her left and right sides. Was there any particular reason why I saw like this? No. One can always see white Light around the Mother, for it is her light, always there. 8 August 1933
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This evening when the Mother came to give us darshan, I saw Sri Aurobindo’s light around her like a cloud. Was this a formation of the mind or the vital? Was there a mistake in it? If seeing the Mother’s Light is a mistake or a mental or vital formation, then the realisation of the Divine and all spiritual experience can be questioned as a mental or vital formation or mistake and all Yoga becomes impossible. 6 September 1933
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While watching the Mother walk on the terrace, I saw a light like moonlight around her. How strong and bright it was. Seeing it, my being became quiet and gradually settled into a deep indrawn condition. People see all kinds of lights around the Mother when she walks on the roof. They are all the flowing out of different forces. If it was like the moonlight in appearance it would be the spiritual force. 1 November 1933
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What people see around the Mother is first her aura, as it is called nowadays, and secondly the forces of Light that pour out from her when she concentrates, as she always does on the roof for instance. (Everybody has an aura —but in most it is weak and not very luminous, in the Mother’s aura there is the full play
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of lights and powers.) People do not see it usually because it is a subtle physical and not a gross material phenomenon. They can see only on two conditions, first if they develop sufficient subtle sight, secondly if the aura itself begins to become so strong that it affects the sheath of gross matter which conceals it. The Mother has certainly no idea of making people see it —it is of themselves that one after another, some 20 or 30 in the Asram, I believe, have come to see. None of them are big Yogis, some of them are mere beginners. It is certainly one of the signs that the higher Force (call it supramental or not) is beginning to influence Matter. 15 November 1933
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Some people see light etc. around the Mother but I am not able to do so. What is the obstruction in me? It is not an obstruction —it is simply a question of the growth of the inner senses. It has no indispensable connection with spiritual progress. There are some very far on the path who have very little of this kind of vision if any —on the other hand sometimes it develops enormously in mere beginners who have as yet had only very elementary spiritual experiences. 1 December 1933
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X says that she sees white light streaming out from the Mother when she sees her walking on the terrace. And some days, when the Mother is meditating, she sees some figure behind her. There is always light around the Mother which the eyes can see if the inner vision opens. There are also many beings that are around her. 4 September 1934
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