From Mother's Agenda, May 17, 1969

[Jordi Valero]

"When Sri Aurobindo left, I was standing near his bed (later on, when he was alone, when there was no one left), and all the supramental force he had concentrated in his body (what was left in his body), he passed on to me. I stood near his bed; he had been declared "dead," but all that supramental consciousness which was there came out of his body, slowly, and directly entered mine. It was so material that I felt the friction of the force everywhere, all over. But it was slightly luminous. That was something different than with Pavitra. As for Sri Aurobindo, he ... (how can I put it?), he stayed mainly ... I found him everywhere: I found him all the way up, absolutely one with the Supreme Consciousness; I found him spread about in many places to see many people and do a lot of work; and I found him (but then, in a precise form, though NOT FIXED - A precise, rather supple form that looked like him, like what we knew of him, with more suppleness, without the fixity of the physical, but quite precise, a form in his likeness, quite in his likeness), I found him in the subtle physical.
There he has a dwelling, he is settled and stays permanently (which doesn't prevent him from being at many other places and ...), but there is a Sri Aurobindo there whom I see almost every night, who looks after the whole work, sees people, and who is almost constantly with me. In the subtle physical, it's a specific place, and very large - huge, you know, he is there, seeing people, doing all kinds of things ....
Apart from that, in Amrita's case, it was something different again. [[Satprem's note: Amrita left his body on January 31, following a heart attack. ]] Amrita used to come in spite of his illness, he used to come and see me every day; he would come upstairs in the morning and sit down here, and once again in the evening (you saw how much work it was to climb the stairs). In his case, when he left ... The doctor had told him, "You can't go upstairs for a month," and it's after that, later on that day, that he came: he didn't accept, he left his body and came - he came straight to me. But he was IN HIS OWN FORM, more subtle, but precisely defined (Mother draws an outline showing Amrita's form), it was his form, in his likeness. And he remained there, now active and now at rest (he rests more than he is active, but now and then he is still active). It's like ... like a shadow, you understand, which is wholly in my atmosphere. And he has stayed there-he stays there, rests there. But in Pavitra's case, it was something else altogether: it's the entire conscious being which gave up ... (how can I put it?) its limits, the personal limit and form, so as to identify totally - he entered like that, like a stream of consciousness and force, but very material, very material: it produced a friction, I felt a friction, and for three hours. I had never seen that before, it was the first time - I had heard about it very often (it's often mentioned), that knowledge the great yogis had: they would go like that deliberately.
And it has ADDED something to the body consciousness. In the body's spontaneous attitude, its way of being, I have noticed a slight change; it has added a sort of ... stability in the body: a satisfied stability, like that. It's not like something that comes and might go, it's not that: it's here [in Mother]. It has been really quite interesting - and unexpected.
I wanted to be sure that there was nothing left that could make the body suffer, but now I think it's over."

[grace]

you both are blessed ones....i am so overwhelmed

[Jordi Valero]

I am very grateful. I did not have time to search the text.

[Barindranath Chaki]

Hello Jordi Valero,

Regarding what Sri Aurobindo told The Mother, I am quoting below from Mother's Agenda, vol.1, :

November 26, 1960

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You see, I'm doing the sadhana really along a ... a path that has never been trod by anyone. Sri Aurobindo did it ... in principle. But he gave the charge of doing it in the body to me.
That was the wonderful thing when we were together and all these hostile forces were fighting ... (they tried to kill me any number of times. He always saved me in an absolutely miraculous and marvelous way). But you see, this seemed to create very great BODILY difficulties for him. We discussed this a great deal, and I told him, 'If one of us must go, I want that it should be me.'
'It can't be you,' he replied, 'because you alone can do the material thing. "
And that was all.
He said nothing more. He forbade me to leave my body. That's all. 'It is absolutely forbidden.' he said. 'You can't, you must remain. "
After that (this took place early in 1950), he gradually ... You see, he let himself fall ill. For he knew quite well that should he say 'I must go,'* I would not have obeyed him, and I would have gone. For according to the way I felt, he was much more indispensable than I. But he saw the matter from the other side. And he knew that I had the power to leave my body at will. So he didn't say a thing, he didn't say a thing right to the very last minute ...
(silence)

[Jordi Valero]

Dear Barindranath:

It has been an honor for me to copy this text in Aspiration.

I am still searching the sentence that Sri Aurobindo said to Mother when he decided left his body.
I hope to find it as soon as I can.

[Barindranath Chaki]

Thank you, Jordi Valero.
The following words of The Mother is of a great value and importance : "As for Sri Aurobindo, he ... (how can I put it?), ... ... I found him everywhere: I found him all the way up, absolutely one with the Supreme Consciousness."
I was in search of this statement of The Mother.