{"id":98,"date":"2008-12-30T18:36:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T18:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrizianorellibachelet.com\/TNWblog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2020-09-17T19:00:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:00:53","slug":"is-the-true-significance-of-immortality-day-lost-on-followers-of-sri-aurobindo-and-the-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrizianorellibachelet.com\/TNWblog\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Is the True Significance of Immortality Day Lost on Followers of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SriT<\/strong>he 26 November Mumbai Attacks fell on the 82nd anniversary of Immortality Day, and 36 years exactly after the Mother gave the following \u2018Immortality Day\u2019 message:<\/p>\n

\u2018Before dying, falsehood rises in full swing. Still people understand only the lesson of Catastrophe. Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the truth? I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be. It is only the truth that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the truth or being destroyed.\u2019<\/em> \u2013 The Mother, 26 November 1972<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Do these synchronicities fall into the mind\u2019s waste bin of random coincidence? Is it at all significant that the passage of the Indian Constitution also transpired on 26 November, in 1949? On the occasion of India\u2019s Independence, 15 August 1947, Sri Aurobindo wrote:<\/p>\n

\u2018August 15th is my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition.\u2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For those who agree that India\u2019s independence falling on Sri Aurobindo\u2019s birthday was no \u2018fortuitous accident\u2019, and for those who agree that India must recover her true Self and recover the Sanatana Dharma, perhaps the Mumbai attacks effected on \u201cImmortality Day\u2019 will wake up a revived sense that the Divine Force spoken of by Sri Aurobindo is active in our world today.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For thousands of years India\u2019s ancient culture and knowledge have been thoroughly walked on, eroded and distorted as a result of occupations, invasions, migrations and religious conversions (whether forced or peaceful). Perhaps with the Mumbai attacks, the passivity that allowed such encroachment on India\u2019s soul, is now, from this important date, giving way to a stronger sense of self and a stronger will to be WHOLE. Surmising Sri Aurobindo\u2019s vision for India, Sisir Kumar Mitra wrote:<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2026 the task ahead of building up a new India is a tremendous one requiring the application of more than the utmost normal capacities of the race. The endeavour therefore must be made to reconstruct the national life on the basis of India’s own culture, the truth of her soul and the purpose of her existence. Indeed the free India of today is not at all what she is destined to be. Her territorial integrity, her political oneness is vitally necessary for her growth as a nation as well as for the accomplishment of her mission in the world.<\/strong> Verily it is for this particular work that she has lived through the ages. A resurgent India, a strong, united and above all, an illumined India able powerfully to revolutionise the consciousness of the entire world and shape it anew by her own illimitable spiritual force is the hope and need of humanity today.<\/strong> That will be the noontide of her freedom, the high watermark of her greatness and her supreme raison d’etre among the peoples of the world.\u2019 <\/em>[Bold emphasis added]
\n\u2013\u00a0 Sri Aurobindo and Indian Freedom,<\/em> 1948 [1]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Those who follow the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother must wonder how the Supramental Shakti is active in accomplishing the tremendous task and destiny which Sri Aurobindo envisioned for India, which would \u2018new-mould the life of the world and restore the peace of the human spirit\u2019.<\/em> [2] They must wonder at the coincidence of the Mumbai attacks beginning precisely on the 26th of November \u2013 \u2018Immortality Day\u2019, precisely at Apollo Bunder, the locale where Sri Aurobindo returned to Indian soil in 1893 to begin his epic work towards restoring India (and the Sanatana Dharma) to its full glory and potency.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In 1978 the Sri Aurobindo Ashram press began a publishing run of a book by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet which discussed, among other things, the reincarnation of Sri Aurobindo. Against the wishes of the Ashram Trustees, all but three of the books were destroyed by the press managers. [3] The birth date given in that book for Sri Aurobindo\u2019s rebirth was 26 November 1963. The story Ms. Norelli-Bachelet has told in her books \u2013 of her own role in the Yoga, of the rebirth of Sri Aurobindo, and of the Supramental Will expressing itself in cycles and geometries of time \u2013 won her few friends and many enemies amongst followers of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. They could not imagine that the Supramental Descent would proceed in such a manner, and could not imagine that the Supramental Shakti would express herself or be visible in cycles and geometries of time.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>One wonders if those persistent in dismissing Ms. Bachelet\u2019s yoga, have yet paused to consider if the coincidence of the Mumbai attacks on the 45th birthday of the said reincarnation of Sri Aurobindo was not at all a \u2018fortuitous accident\u2019. For those who see 26\/11 only as a tragedy, this association would seem unfortunate. But for those who understand and agree with with the assessment that India\u2019s \u2018territorial integrity, her political oneness is vitally necessary for her growth as a nation as well as for the accomplishment of her mission in the world\u2019, 26\/11 can be appreciated as a profound seed of change and an important summoning of vital energies necessary for India\u2019s reclamation of her own soul and her recovery of the Sanatana Dharma (the Eternal Truth of Being and Becoming) for all the world.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Those who understand something of the \u2018secrets\u2019 of the Vedic texts will not be adverse to the idea, as proposed by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, that the recovery of the soul and of the eternal dharma involves a retrieval of gnosis of the circle of 360, gnosis of the 9 number system used throughout the world and attributed to ancient India, gnosis of the Earth\u2019s year as traveled in a twelve month journey around the Sun, and gnosis of the living Cosmos and its harmonies. Evidence for such retrievable gnosis can be found in both the Rig Veda itself and in Sri Aurobindo\u2019s writings on Vedic truth:<\/p>\n

Twelve spokes, one wheel, navels three.
\nWho can comprehend this?
\nOn it are placed together
\nThree hundred and sixty like pegs.
\nThey shake not in the least.<\/em>
\n\u2013 Rig Veda 1.154.48<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

****<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018It is in the revolution of the year that the recovery of the lost Sun and the lost cows [solar rays\/light] is effected, for we have the explicit statement in X.62.2, rtenabhindan parivatsare valam, \u201cby the truth, in the revolution of the year, they broke Vala [the Ignorance],\u201d or, as Sayana interprets it, \u201cby sacrifice lasting for a year.\u201d\u2019 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\n\u2013 Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda<\/em><\/p>\n

****<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2018\u2026 in a hidden chamber closed and mute,
\nAre kept the record graphs of the cosmic scribe,
\nAnd there the tables of the sacred law,
\nThere is the Book of Being’s index page
\nThe text and glossary of the Vedic truth
\nAre there; the rhythms and meters of the stars
\nSignificant of the movements of our fate:
\nThe symbol powers of number and form,
\nAnd the secret code of the history of the world
\nand Nature\u2019s correspondences with the soul
\nare written in the mystic heart of life.\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sri Aurobindo, Savitri<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

****<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In 2006, unimpressed by such words of the Veda and of Sri Aurobindo, moderators and members of Auroconf (an Integral Yoga Study Group) ridiculed Ms. Norelli-Bachelet\u2019s notions that the Supramental Descent and Shakti would somehow be visible in \u2018the rhythms and meters of the stars\u2019<\/em> or the \u2018symbol powers of number and form\u2019<\/em>.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In 2007 Auroconf member Lynda Lester co-hosted a panel discussion entitled “Facing the Challenge of Fundamentalism and other Shadow Issues in the Ongoing Evolution of Integral Yoga” at the California Institute of Integral Studies \u2018AUM Conference\u2019 held at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. The opening remarks of the discussion read as follows, \u2018Sri Aurobindo and [The] Mother did not want to found a new religion… but we do see a few examples of fundamentalism \u2026\u2019. Lester then proceeded through a list of four offenders the last of which is \u2018a small but aggressive group of people following Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet who are into esoteric numerology \u2026\u2019
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>According to the conference literature, the purpose of the conference was to \u2018identify, heal, and clear unconscious divisions and blockages; foster deep listening, mutual learning, and the cross-pollination of knowledge streams; expand boundaries, build bridges of trust and collaboration; develop a more integrated, effective, and applied sense of the term “integral.\u201d\u2019 Yet by not inviting any presenters who appreciate or understand Ms. Norelli-Bachelet\u2019s Supramental and Integral yoga and \u2018applied cosmology\u2019, they succeeded in continuing to block out points of view that renew the Sanatana Dharma<\/em>, and succeeded in dismissing and alienating a living \u2018stream\u2019 of knowledge. Under the guise of authority and the safety of group agreement, the conference succeeded in defending old<\/em> boundaries, and in refusing to bridge what has been accomplished by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in the past with what is being accomplished by Ms. Norelli-Bachelet in the present<\/em>.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In response to Lester, and to others who label their enemies as fundamentalists, Ms. Norelli Bachelet has written:<\/p>\n

\u00a0‘The ‘authorities’ who pontificate on the danger of fundamentalism
\ncannot appreciate that their own consciousness is its breeding ground.
\nThe bane of all new-agey scholarship is Liberal Fundamentalism.<\/em>‘
\n26.12.2008<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The efforts to marginalize or keep on the outskirts the very new idea (which is actually a very old Vedic idea) of a Divine Consciousness-Force that eternally weaves and orchestrates patterns of sacred geometry and sacred architecture in the course of Time is painfully short-sighted by all involved. The refusal to admit or even attempt to see such a Divine Consciousness-Force at work in the progression of the year and in larger cycles of time, effectively disables seekers from comprehending the \u2018body of Time\u2019 and from integrating the past, present and future, whether on an individual or a collective scale.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Perhaps the weight of groups and institutions that participate in such dismissals will increasingly prove to be irrelevant to seekers who take on the task of determining for themselves who or what represents a religious calcification of the knowledge introduced by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and who represents a true breakthrough into previously unseen and unexplored territories of the Supramental Truth-Consciousness. One wonders, what the members of Auroconf and the \u2018experts\u2019 on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother make of the coincidence not only of the Mumbai attacks on Immortality Day and on the date that they have denied as Sri Aurobindo\u2019s rebirth; but also that the very slow moving Pluto (the unrecognized 9th planet of our solar system) happened to move into the 10th sign of Capricorn (the very portion of the 12 spokes\/months of the wheel which the Veda extols as the month of the Victory), some three hours after the attacks began. The last time Pluto made this transit into Capricorn was in 1762.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Cultivating an appreciation for sacred geometry \u2013 for the Divine\u2019s beauty, precision and perfection as displayed in nature, in Space \u2013 is no longer considered an \u2018esoteric\u2019 pursuit in our modern times. In fact many a scientist and mathematician have contributed to (and will continue to contribute to) our ever deepening appreciation of the Earthly, Cosmic and Human design.\u00a0 One wonders when it will no longer be considered \u2018esoteric\u2019 to consider a sacred geometry or divine control and beauty displayed in the course of Time. That will surely be the end of the prevailing mental view which imagines events in time proceeding randomly, with no connection to the individual or collective soul.<\/p>\n

‘Observe that in the Puranas the Yugas, moments, months, etc are all
\nsymbolic and it is stated that the body of man is the year.’<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda<\/em><\/p>\n

*********<\/p>\n

\u00a0Endnotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1] Sri Aurobindo and India Freedom<\/em>, Sisir Kumar Mitra, Madras; Sri Aurobindo Library, 1948 (from pp. 25<\/a>–26<\/a>.). Mitra\u2019s portrait of Sri Aurobindo\u2019s vision for India drew largely from Sri Aurobindo\u2019s writings in Bande Mataram<\/a><\/em>, Karmayogin<\/a><\/em>, and letters and speeches written by Sri Aurobindo, such as the 15 August 1947 Independence Day Speech that was broadcast through All India Radio. See Link.
\n[2] Bande Mataram<\/em>, 2 March 1908.
\n[3] This book, The New Way – A Study in the Rise and Establishment of a Gnostic Society<\/em><\/a>, was subsequently published in 1981.
\n23-24 December 2008
\n\u00a9 Lori Tompkins<\/p>\n

[Author\u2019s note: In mid-January 2009 I was alerted by a reader that I had misattributed the Sisir Kumar Mitra quote to Sri Aurobindo. I apologize for the error and have made the appropriate corrections in the text and in the endnotes.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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