The golden event which occurred on 29 February 1956

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The birth of the new world The birth of the new world took place half an hour after the supramental manifestation, the golden event which occurred on 29 February 1956. About the manifestation,—it was a manifestation and not just a descent,—the Mother wrote in her diary the same day the following:

This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine. As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that the time has come, and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces. Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow.

This happened during the common meditation on Wednesday, in the evening, in the Ashram Playground. Later she added, in November 1957, that it was an event which was a forerunner of the birth of a new world. In the South, in India, there is a belief that great things happen on Wednesdays and it was the golden Wednesday on which this happened. Such awareness!

When asked as when exactly did the birth of the new world take place, the Mother replied: “half an hour later.” First the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow and then half an hour later took place the birth. The sequence is perfect: there could not have been the new birth if the old Light was still present—that would have been incongruous and strange, self-defeating. Only when the Light got fixed, did the new birth occur. Isn’t that wonderful, the working of super-logic in the great sequence of time?

On 25 September 1957 a question was put to the Mother: “When the Supreme Lord told you to make the world, how did you know what had to be done?” She answered: “I had nothing to learn for that, because the Supreme Lord contains everything in Himself: the whole world, the knowledge of the world and the power to make it. When He decided that there should be a world, He first brought forth the knowledge of the world and the power to make it and that is me, and then He commanded me to make the world.”

God the wise and the mighty—that is the constant refrain of the Holy Scripture! “He first brought forth the knowledge of the world”—that was Sri Aurobindo. The Avatar and his executive Shakti coming together in their full power of manifestation can alone carry out triumphantly such a fundamental world-transforming task. This has now happened; the task has been accomplished. Such indeed was the divine Siddhi in this creation obtained by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Glory to the twin Avatar! Glory to the Lord of the Creation! RYD