🌸 SIDDHI DAY 24th November, 1926 🌸

🌸 SIDDHI DAY 24th November, 1926 🌸
     
        ...... On the wall, near the central door, was hung a black silk curtain with a Chinese Dragon in gold lace-work.

        The band-wood chairs in which we used to sit for Meditation etc. were all removed and replaced by mats spread on the floor.

         Absolute silence prevailed and the verandah was full of Spiritual Light. Automatically we got into a state of meditation, waiting for the arrival of the Master.

          A few minutes after, at about 7 p.m. the door behind the curtain opened and the Mother and the Masters appeared-the Master with his majestic gait and the Mother in her queenly bearing. The Master was dressed in silk dhoti and chaddar, and the Mother in a silk sari. The Master took his sit in his foot-rest which was placed on this day a little to the left.

          The Master looked absolutely grand, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Samrat, as if Emperor of the Universe, head lion-like, eyes wide-open as if looking from far beyond, detached yet supporting the entire universe; absolutely powerful, yet compassionate and kind to all, the supreme Godhead, absolutely Samrat, one who had conquered himself entirely and had established his Anand and light in every part and each cell of his body, from head to foot, his whole body radiating light and love and bliss to all creation.

            The Mother was the embodiment of Love. Compassion, Purity, Beauty, Youth, Grace and Rhythm. She also looked majestic, her beaming eyes full of compassion, for the earthly creation, Mother of the universe, Shakti of the Master.

             It was a very auspicious day, since on this day Sri Krishna, who is the Anandamaya and who supports the evolution, descended into the physical. Sri Aurobindo embodied the Supreme Godhead on this day.

             The Master held out his left hand a few inches above the head of the Mother and he blessed the disciples who had assembled with his right hand as they bowed down to him and the Mother, one by one; some as the disciples bowed more than once.

             There was absolutely no talk, no sound. Neither the Mother nor Sri Aurobindo spoke a word, the atmosphere was charged with utter calmness and peace and bliss, perfect silence reigned throughout the function. Then after about half an hour or so, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother withdrew and went within.

             Now Datta came out, inspired and declared, “The Master has conquered death, decay, disease, hunger and sleep.” We were spell-bound and unable to move for some time. We felt as if we had been transported to heaven. Then we came down stair, probably one by one....

             Sri Aurobindo “retired” either on the following day or one or two days after.

Rajani Palit
Mother India
December 1962, Page no.27,28