The Darshan Messages were our lifeline – what is the benefit of stopping them?

Q: I was upset about the Ashrams decision to stop the messages. For all of us who haven’t been around before 1973, there is no reason to be deprived of this instrument for staying connected to The Mother. As we evolve each word of theirs exudes different meaning to all of us, and these Darshan Messages are our lifeline – what is the benefit of stopping them?

ALOKDA: Dear G., there are many devotees around the globe who feel the same way. These darshan messages were like the subtle binding cord that linked the inner core of the Ashram with the world that has grown around Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as the centre. They were like rays of the central sun reaching out far and wide to the larger Ashram linking it together in links of golden thread.

However just as the tree turns inwards during Autumn and the sun seems to be distant so too institutions go through phases of expansion and contraction. Right now, from the year 2019 the earth and humanity and nations and many of its institutions are going through this phase of contraction. It gives an opportunity to turn within and reinvent itself to adapt to the changing world. At the same time many groups are actually reinventing themselves and coming up with fresh possibilities through a creative surge within.

I suppose it is one such phase of contraction that the Ashram is going through. It will however make humanity across the world less dependent upon the Ashram administration and authorities and more in direct contact with the Mother and Sri Aurobindo whose Presence vibrates at the Samadhi releasing forces of transformation. That is the great lesson we are here to learn that She is in us and in all creatures and our task is to become more and more conscious of Her living Presence.