Feb. 29th, 1956 – The
Day of the Lord
By Karmayogi
While Sri Aurobindo was in jail,
Swami Vivekananda appeared before Him, gave Him the Gita and showed Him the
Supermind. He did not tell Him how to reach the Supermind. It took Sri
Aurobindo ten years to discover it. Like Buddha and Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo
refused to accept moksha for himself while all the other souls languished in
the darkness of the earth. One should reach Supermind and bring it down so that
it would transform the earth – abolish Ignorance, suffering, evil and death. Sri
Aurobindo said that if twelve or a hundred yogis reached the Supermind, it
would descend on earth. He could not find anyone, other than the Mother. So, He
decided to leave the body and work from the subtle plane.
In 1956 on February 29th, while Mother was in meditation at the playground with
all the sadhaks, She saw a golden door and a golden hammer. She broke that door
with the hammer. A Golden Light, the Supramental Light, flooded the earth. Up rose
the earth's tamas and swallowed the descending Force. Mother said,
‘‘Henceforth, February 29th will be the Day of the
Lord.'' It is known as Supramental day and celebrated once in four
years. Auroville was founded a day prior to that day. The Mother was watching
that Force organise Itself on earth. She began to meet Sri Aurobindo in the
subtle plane from 1959 and converse with Him. He told Her that the governments
would come under the influence of that Force from 1967. The date 4-5-67was thus chosen to be celebrated. She saw the Force organising itself as a
person, the Consciousness of a Person, on the New Year day of 1969. Until 1973,
She was speaking to a sadhak about that Force organising Itself for action. When
strange events were brought to Her notice, She commented how the Force
expressed Itself through those events. Sri Aurobindo was always golden in the
subtle plane, but after the descent, many sadhaks had visions of the Golden
Purusha. Sri Aurobindo and The Mother have
not left us. They are very much there in the subtle plane. Devotees
with subtle vision see them in their dreams or dhyana. One thing all those who
have lived before the descent know is, any prayer now is more quickly answered,
and more fully too. Mother was sorry that no one was aware of the descent. Even
now, every four years we celebrate the descent. It is a pity we are so dense
and unconscious. We do not see the Force. Of course, many feel it in the
atmosphere as a powerful Presence.