Creation of the new world by Aswapati in the House of the Spirit must have taken place sometime during the early 1940s

Re: “I was facing a huge golden door…” —Birth sometime during 1938-1942
by RY Deshpande on Sun 09 Mar 2008 09:01 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link

Let us have a brief look at some of the events in the Mother’s life as we might discern from the biographical representation of it in Sri Aurobindo’s epic Savitri. According to it, there is sufficient ground to surmise that the creation of the new world by Aswapati in the House of the Spirit must have taken place sometime during the early 1940s. This was the time when Sri Aurobindo had finalised in his own hand the draft of Savitri’s first part, Books I-III. It is here that we have an elaborate description of this new and marvellous world governed by the Perfection’s Law. Prior to that, the indefatigable yogi-tapasvin was busy with bringing down the supermind in his physical. The Overmind had already appeared in the physical on 24 November 1926, the Siddhi Day, the day when the Krishna Consciousness entered the tough material-corporeal...

The descent of the golden Light, the supramental Light in Sri Aurobindo’s physical started happening early in August 1938 and, surely enough, it had connection with the “new and marvellous creation” which was later described in great detail in Savitri. (p. 323) The draft of this part of Savitri, the first three Books, was completed by September 1942. We might therefore say that it was during the first half of the Second World War, perhaps during August 1938 and September 1942, that this new creation had taken its birth in the transcendent. It is that which had to be brought down. We shall see some of these aspects in brief detail as we shall proceed in our discussion of this topic. RYD