When the Mother’s yoga-tapasya entered the stage of awakening consciousness of the body’s cells, she found that they started chanting constantly the name of the Lord. They were all the while imploring the Lord for the strength and the beauty, for the harmonious perfection needed to be the divine instruments upon earth. “Om Namo Bhagavate, Om Namo Bhagavate”—that became the specific Word of Realization. The Mother even spoke of the path that was never trod by anyone. Sri Aurobindo had done it in principle, she said. But she also added that the details had to be worked out. To make the body’s cells awake to the divine reality was an unprecedented task and the Mother had to discover the means for accomplishing it. It is here that she found the power of the mantra coming to a definite aid in fixing the higher subtle-luminous in the dark and crude gross. She even suggests that Sri Aurobindo would have recognized its efficacy had he reached this stage of the yoga-tapasya of the body. The constant repetition of the Mantra gives “a kind of precision, a kind of solidity” that is essential to hold that divine reality in the physical. Only Japa or repetition of the Mantra has direct action on the body. While she was engaged in this intense Japa-Yoga, she was actually invoking “the Lord of Tomorrow”. She was doing the Mantra-Japa regularly and making the progress. When the same was tried by Satprem, it cracked. A necessary spiritual ādhāra, a foundational basis, the spiritual support is also needed to do Japa-Yoga. But I suppose there is a difference between the power of the Word the Mother speaks of in the context of the cellular transformation and the Divine Word which creates the worlds in the Transcendent, by which the rhythm and movement of the worlds are set into motion, by which “Brihaspati becomes manifest first of the gods out of the vastness of that Light of the Truth-Consciousness, in that highest heavenly space of the supreme superconscient, maho jyotişah parame vyoman.” That is the perfection which has yet to come to this world of ours. One is the Word of Creation, the other is the Word of Realisation. So, if we have to define true evolution, it would mean the Word of Realisation climbing the ascending slopes of Heaven to arrive at the Word of Creation as much as the other stepping into it. One is the Word of Creation and the other is the Word of Realisation. It is the Word of Realisation that climbs Vamadeva’s Ascending Slopes of Heaven to arrive at the Word of Creation; it has to be as much the other stepping into it.

...   more »