1922

1921	1922	1923

(A. B. Purani, The Life of Sri Aurobindo:) “On 1 January 1922 the Mother took entire charge of the management of Sri Aurobindo's house, including the kitchen. There was a complete change in the routine. Arrangements were made upstairs for Sri Aurobindo's bath.”

(Nirodbaran to students, 1970:) “Well then, the period from 1920-26 is somewhat dark, in the sense that we have not much information about it. Very little has come to light about the Mother's activities in those days, much less so about the period from 1920-22 in the Guest House. Whatever I have been able to gather about these two years is something like this – but I'm open to correction.
         On the whole it has been said that the Mother was keeping all to herself. She used to come out very rarely. One doesn't know what she was doing. Sri Aurobindo was seeing people and having talks with the few inmates. The Mother was not taking part at all in these sittings. Someone told me that the inmates used to sit round Sri Aurobindo, sometimes meditating, sometimes talking and now and then they had a glimpse of the Mother going from one room to the other. When Champaklal came – a lad of sixteen or so – he said he didn't have the occasion to see the Mother. But she told him later that she had seen him. Naturally, she must have been taking interest in all, from behind, without their knowing. But one activity of hers is very well known that she took personal charge of Sri Aurobindo's physical life – physical comfort. She at once saw that nobody was taking good care of him, (Laughter) so she looked after his food, his rest, looked after other necessities. And there was a definite change in the cooking arrangement of the house. About the rest we know nothing.
         In 1920 May-June, Mother began to put on a sari introduced by a lady called Mrinalini Chattopadhyay. Then there is a note by Sri Aurobindo himself:
         “The Mother, when the Ashram was still unformed, was wearing patched cotton sarees. When she took up the work it was necessary to change her habit. So she did so.”
         Another note from somebody else:
         “The Mother lived most simply. She had no more than two or three plain sarees which she herself used to wash. There was nothing to which she wouldn't lend a willing worker's hand.” ”

(Kodandarama Rao:) “Sri Aurobindo was pacing to and fro very fast in his room and verandah for six to eight hours a day, meditating on persons, things and events and on himself. When doing so it appeared as if he was in a high state of consciousness and gave the impression of a Shiva or Mahakali with dishevelled hair moving about willing great things.
         When the Master sat on his chair for conversation he was sometimes very silent and serene and at other times quite jovial and laughing and cutting jokes and mixing with one and all. Often his gaze was upward as if he was stationed high above and came down to the level of ordinary persons when talking to them. He was always alert and never in the so-called Samadhi state with closed eyes at the meditation time. Clad in a dhoti in all seasons of the year, he was equal to heat and cold.”

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