The Descent
(This experience of S.A. Maa Krishna took place while conducting a group meditation in the school premises on 12.11.2000.)
Q:- What happened during yesterday evening's meditation ?
Yesterday, it was a rare experience in meditation. It took all the children to Brahman consciousness. You can ask what happened to them individually. When I started first meditation I saw that all were in a disturbed state.
Exactly at 6.00 p.m. the meditation started (from 6.00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.). I saw during meditation that nothing happened... So in a subtle manner, I tried to see with everybody where from disharmony was generating and saw three boys P, A & S were creating the disharmony.
Yes, during the meditation, I didn’t undergo a deep state. Even though the meditation was not deep but there was also no irritation, because in the whole being a deep Peace was descending. It was peace, not the force, just after sitting in meditation, peace descended, peace entered into the entire body, leading the whole body to a calm state. Even though there was no deep meditation, it did not matter much due to the prevailing peace. Peace was descending, but force was not descending. Peace was different from force, as force will press you…. force is such a thing that those who have experienced it can only feel. As there was peace, there was Ananda also. Then, after meditation with my eyes closed, I was just concentrating on Sri Aurobindo, and in that time I saw immediately in front of my eye a Virata Rupa (a huge shape) of Sri Aurobindo.
I saw Sri Aurobindo exactly in the shape of Viswa Rupa of the Gita, (Vision of the World-Spirit), only Sri Aurobindo, in a huge shape, he was sitting. He was sitting in a chair as he usually sits, but the sitting shape has turned huge.
Huge, huge…. There was nothing except Him…. Nothing except Him. He was covering the whole world. He had covered the entire earth. His shape was so Virata that nothing was seen without Him.
Q:- Did you see the vision with your eyes opened or closed ?
Eyes were closed. Then I was seeing blue color, not blue color, but sky blue color light, along with Sri Aurobindo.
Q:- Was the blue light in his body ?
No, I was seeing Sri Aurobindo and that light. Then I wanted to recite a mantra.. After seeing this Virata Rupa, lip was dumb founded. After some time, I was able to utter O-o-o-m, while uttering this O-o-o-M, I saw a Virata OM (huge shape of OM) replacing Sri Aurobindo. And Sri Aurobindo’s shape had vanished. Sri Aurobindo’s shape turned into a huge OM.
Q:- Which mantra were you chanting?
Only OM, only OM, with the chanting OM, everything turned to OM.
Q:- Were there multiple OM in every object ?
No, only one OM, OM was covering everything, the earth. It was a rare and new experience. Only one OM covering everything, Virata OM. OM was radiating towards everywhere.
Q:- Which color ?
Golden and blue.
Q:- Blue is in the background ?
Yes, same as I saw Sri Aurobindo.
Q:- It means OM was written in Golden color ?
It was radiating in golden color, it was reddish gold, red color was also visible. It was radiating towards every side, which I can see even now! Then I tried to repeat a mantra, but it was not possible. This OM chanting persisted for some time. Then I was able to repeat this mantra:
‘Om Sri Aurobindam charanau saranam prapadye Sri Mata Sri Aurobindaya Namah.’
It was difficult to come back to the rhythm of the mantra, but after uttering the word Om Sri Aurobindam Charanau….torrents of Force rushed in a continuous manner, it was such a torrent that it was a rainfall. It was like a rain of Light and Force, I was feeling the force was entering each cell of the body. Not through the head, it was through the whole body force was entering, the whole body. While uttering this mantra three to four times, I observed P, who was reciting it without harmony, so I directed him to go out of the room. Then the chanting continued. Then I saw A was creating a disturbance, so I directed him to go out of the room. It felt as if I had gone completely to another world along with the boys. Nobody was having any existence there, only the Divine was there. That force and that cosmic….that transcendental force was felt completely. After the descent of force, I observed jnana (divine knowledge) was descending continuously. Then I saw near the head of each child the OM.
Q:- You saw OM near everybody’s head?
Yes. After the descent of the Divine force, Jnana (knowledge) descended. When Knowledge descended, I started speaking. What I spoke that time I don’t remember now. Then I saw that near everybody’s head, the OM has occupied a place. That big OM slowly entered into everybody in the shape of small OM in the form of jnana. Then I repeated this mantra.
“Om Aham Brahmasmi” (which means I am Brahman.)
It was a new experience. I told the children that you all are Brahman, we all have come from the Supreme and one day we will return again to the Supreme. Without him, we do not have any existence. So we all should merge in Him, without That there is no other way. That is why we are all Brahman. We are THAT only and nothing else.
Q:- When you repeated ‘Om Aham Brahmasmi’ what happened ?
At that time, another boy, S created a disturbance. So I directed S to go out of the room. Then, while merged in this mantra, I again saw another boy Sg. created a disturbance through chanting the mantra. But I saw force is entering the body of Sg., so I indicated him to keep quiet. Then I witnessed another rare experience. The OM residing over the forehead of each participant, and thereafter it started moving slowly to their heart centre. When the OM reached the heart centre, I saw it extinguished.
Q:- Was the OM entering through head ?
No, the Om was entering through the forehead with each individual and vanished near the heart centre. From the head the knowledge descended and it took everybody towards the realisation of the Brahman. Up to this, I observed that the force was still descending into the atmosphere. After sitting for ten minutes, I saw them one by one coming to me to do pranam. While receiving that pranam I felt my non-existence and only the Divine is there and I am that Brahman. Brahman is merging into the Brahman. So I witnessed the Brahman doing pranam to Brahman. It was 7.30 p.m. and it seemed one and half hours had passed very quickly. This experience gave me a lot of strength. I am surrendering this experience at the Feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
OM TAT SAT
The Descent
OM SRI AUROBINDO MAA 2.11.2000
Dear Maa Krishna,
Thank you very much for your loving letter of 27th October enclosing the first (and significant) issue of “The Descent”.
The Mother says,
“IT IS MOST USEFUL AND
IMPRESSIVE AND WILL
CONTINUALLY GROW IN STRENGTH.”
PROFOUND GRACE
AND BLESSINGS.
Truly, every sincere effort is a Victory and every sustained effort is a magnificent Victory.
A friend sent me a Diwali Card with a very nice message. It was:
“SUCCESS IS A JOURNEY
NOT A DESTINATION!”
You know the way, you know the journey and your trust and love for The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is true and sustained. This is truly a victory. More and more devoted persons will benefit from ‘The Descent’ as the years go by.
Time is really of little consequence as The Mother controls Time within Her power. All will be achieved for all is Her wonderful and delightful Dream. We fly in Her Sky of Supramental Light and swim with power & determination in Her Oceans of ecstasy. From within our hearts, She Transforms and in our silenced mind Sri Aurobindo vibrates the truth of Sat Chit Ananda.
Please convey my love to Bikram (and to Prasant & other boys).
My love to you.
At Their Feet,
Signed Anurakta.
N.B. One may note that the Mother, our primary Source, had deputed Sri K. Anurakta as our Spiritual Fosterer and secondary Source. Regarding the secondary Source, Sri Aurobindo wrote, "This will be to him (a Sadhaka) his exceeding good fortune if he can meet one who has realised or is becoming That which he seeks for and can by opening to it in this vessel of its manifestation himself realise it." (CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-130) Sri K. Anurakta had insisted us, "Since The Mother has given you a special work directly for the Divine, so the Ashram should be sealed against all the disturbing human presence and adverse circumstances." He further advised to keep the Ashram atmosphere captive from world influence. When we informed Sri K. Anurakta that Sri Matriniketan Ashram aspires to become a Virgins' Fortress; hearing this, without any reply, he entered a deep trance.
1. First Issue of The Descent, October 2000
2. Ashram INAUGURAL ISSUE, February 2003
3. THE DESCENT, A Wearisome Book, Feb-2011
10. THE DESCENT SEPTEMBER 2025
Utility of The Descent
Integral Yoga enlarges and modifies this feeling that untrained intellect is insufficient to understand the overhead truth and proposes²⁶ that the mystery of written truth can be easily understood if one’s Psychic being and Spiritual being are open or if buddhi, intelligent will, is sufficiently purified. If one will read or study Shastras or Their Teachings with the help of intellect or the three gunas, then that exercise followed by restlessness and fatigue, is identified as tamaso-sattwic action. Or if the written truths are not ‘constantly renewed, relived, their stuff of permanent truth constantly reshaped and developed in the inner thought and spiritual experience of a developing humanity,’³⁵ then they become ‘monuments of the past, but have no actual force or vital impulse for the future.’³⁵ If he will translate¹⁰ them into mother tongue or restate¹¹ them through formulation of trained mind and purified intellect, then that exercise ‘becomes a science and art of spiritual living’³⁶ and it is identified as sincere sattwic effort in order to understand²⁶ written truth and to trace a path of his own Sadhana²⁸ respectively. Or a largescale entry into Their Teachings can give a brief Supramental touch and this touch can be prolonged by the development and densification of the subtle body. If he will receive overhead Spiritual support for above two actions after (prolonged) concentration, contemplation and meditation, then that exercise is identified as a Divine action from higher planes of Consciousness. In the passage of time, he waits till sattwic mind’s construction and its constant element of falsity, half-light, half-truth, twilight and limitations are replaced by the higher and wider creative knowledge from within and above. His persistent effort to reveal immortal Words,¹² arrive at their perfection, when all his wisdom is a dictation, command and adesh from the Supreme alone. Thus, he prevents the written truth from becoming a dead convention and customised Religion and by constant restatement of the written truth, he retraces a Spiritual path of his own. A Sadhaka of integral Yoga becomes accountable in his thought and action to his Self, World and the Divine by opening, holding and noting down the new overhead Wisdom, overhead Will and overhead Love, which will further assist in tracing a Spiritual path of his own.
The Gita proposes that tapasya through body or physical education and tapasya through mental self-control or mental education must accompany tapasya through speech and restatement of the written truth.¹⁵⁰ It further clarifies that ‘As much use as there is in a well with water in flood on every side, so much is there in all the Vedas for the Brahmin who has the knowledge.’¹²⁷ ‘All Shastra is the outcome of past experience and a help to future experience. It is an aid and a partial guide.’¹²⁶ All the written Truths are ‘a means, not an end’¹⁴⁰ and an incomplete account¹³⁹ of an eternal unfolding of endless Truth. They are like seed¹⁴⁶ of the banyan tree and a temporary scaffold;¹⁰¹ if practiced through long years of concentration, contemplation and meditation, then this exercise can end in a mighty manifestation of a banyan tree and a permanent emergence of invisible ‘double ladder’¹⁰¹ linking the gulf between Sachchidananda plane and the Inconscient plane. In order to prevent the written truth from becoming old, obsolete, past untouched monument¹⁰⁰ and dead convention or from becoming customised Religion,¹⁰⁰ it must be constantly restated through the overhead descent of Supreme knowledge.
OM TAT SAT
References are taken from the book 'The Mother's Manifestation' whose manuscript can be downloaded here (References of first para: page-26, References of second para: page-266 )
“Night of April 12-13, 1962. Suddenly in the night I woke up with the full awareness of what we could call the Yoga of the world. The Supreme Love was manifesting through big pulsations, and each pulsation was bringing the world further in its manifestation. It was the formidable pulsations of the eternal, stupendous Love, only Love: each pulsation of the Love was carrying the universe further in its manifestation… All the results of the Falsehood had disappeared: Death was an illusion, Sickness was an illusion, Ignorance was an illusion--- something that had no reality, no existence… Only Love, and Love, and Love, and Love –immense, formidable, stupendous, carrying everything.”
The Mother
The Mother's Agenda/Vol-3/p-131
“At once, emerging, it (Psychic being) is ready and eager to break all the old ties and imperfect emotional activities and replace them by a greater spiritual Truth of love and oneness. It may still admit the human forms and movements, but on condition that they are turned towards the One alone. It accepts only the ties that are helpful, the heart’s and mind’s reverence for the Guru, the union of the God-seekers, a spiritual compassion for this ignorant human and animal world and its peoples, the joy and happiness and satisfaction of beauty that comes from the perception of the Divine everywhere. It plunges the nature inward towards its meeting with the immanent Divine in the heart’s secret centre and, while that call is there, no reproach of egoism, no mere outward summons of altruism or duty or philanthropy or service will deceive or divert it from its sacred longing and its obedience to the attraction of the Divinity within it. It (Psychic Being) lifts the being towards a transcendent Ecstasy and is ready to shed all the downward pull of the world from its wings in its uprising to reach the One Highest; but it calls down also this transcendent Love and Beatitude to deliver and transform this world of hatred and strife and division and darkness and jarring Ignorance. It opens to a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Inconscience. It is not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or their perversions and reveal to them their true abounding share of the intimacy and the oneness, the ascending ecstasy and the descending rapture.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-156-157