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Sri Aurobindo on the Mother

Early Visions and Experiences
When Ramakrishna was doing sadhana, Mother was on earth
physically for the first eight years of her childhood, from 1878 to
1886. Did he know that Mother had come down? He must have had
some vision at least of her coming, but we do not read anywhere
definitely about it. And when Ramakrishna must have been intensely
calling Mother, she must have felt something at that age.

In Mother's childhood's visions she saw myself whom she knew
as "Krishna" — she did not see Ramakrishna.
It was not necessary that he should have a vision of her coming
down as he was not thinking of the future nor consciously preparing
for it. I don't think he had the idea of any incarnation of the Mother.
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The Mother's sadhana started when she was very young. When
she was twelve or thirteen, every evening many teachers came to
her and taught her various spiritual disciplines. Among them was
a dark Asiatic figure. When we first met, she immediately recog-
nised me as the dark Asiatic figure whom she used to see a long
time ago. That she should come here and work with me for a com-
mon goal was, as it were, a divine dispensation.
The Mother was an adept in the Buddhist yoga and the yoga
of the Gita even before she came to India. Her yoga was mov-
ing towards a grand synthesis. After this, it was natural that she
should come here. She has helped and is helping to give a con-
crete form to my yoga. This would not have been possible without
her co-operation.
One of the two great steps in this yoga is to take refuge in
the Mother.
CWSA 32: 35-36

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