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The Mother and Sri Aurobindo and Sri Krishna

The Life Divine

- Sri Aurobindo

“A spiritual evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is then the key-note, the central significant motive of the terrestrial existence. This significance is concealed at the outset by the involution of the Spirit, the Divine Reality, in a dense material Inconscience; a veil of Inconscience, a veil of insensibility of Matter hides the universal Consciousness-Force which works within it, so that the Energy, which is the first form the Force of creation assumes in the physical universe, appears to be itself inconscient and yet does the works of a vast occult Intelligence.“

- The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 824

The Life Divine

The First Chapter :
Book One
Omnipresent Reality and the Universe
The Human Aspiration

The Mother in her "Wednesday classes "in 1957-58 , From October 1957 to November 1958 took up two of the final chapters of The Life Divine and after reading ,commented on the text and answered questions .  Third chapter She started but then she stopped  “Wednesday classes” :

The Mother About Life Divine

The Mother attached significant importance to the last six chapters of The Life Divine, often describing them as the most crucial part of the book because they reveal Sri Aurobindo’s specific vision for the future of humanity.

In her playground talks (particularly in 1957 and 1958), she chose to comment specifically on these chapters . Below are the key points she emphasized:

1. Revelation of the Future

The Mother noted that while the earlier parts of the book deal with the metaphysical "how" and "why" of existence and critique past spiritual theories, these final chapters are unique because they were added later (in the 1939–40 revision). They move beyond philosophy into a concrete vision of the transition from the mental being to the spiritual and supramental being.

"The first thing to understand is precisely this first sentence which states the fact, the raison d’être and the very principle of universal existence. You see, we are beginning here at the end of the volume, these are the last six chapters. Throughout the beginning of the book Sri Aurobindo has taken one after another all the theories explaining the how and why of the universe... and at the end he has shown how far they were incomplete or imperfect..." — October 23, 1957 (CWM Vol. 9)

"As we go on reading The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo will prove this to you in every possible way... then you will have to do philosophical gymnastics. But anyway, even without philosophy and mental gymnastics, it is obvious that to make something, you need to have something to make it with." — Commentaries on The Life Divine (1957-1958)