The Mantra of Life

“Anyway, it was because of Théon that I first found the ‘Mantra of Life’, the mantra that gives life, and he wanted me to give it to him, he wanted to possess it – it was something formidable! It was the mantra that gives life (it can make anyone at all come back into life, but that’s only a small part of its power). And it was shut away in a particular place, sealed up, with my name in Sanskrit on it. I didn’t know Sanskrit at that time, but he did, and when he led me to that place, I told him what I saw: “There’s a sort of design, it must be Sanskrit.” (I could recognize the characters as Sanskrit). He told me to reproduce what I was seeing, and I did so. It was my name, Mirra, written in Sanskrit – the mantra was for me and I alone could open it. “Open it and tell me what’s there,” he said.
         (All this was going on while I was in a cataleptic trance.) Then immediately something in me KNEW, and I answered, “No,” and did not read it.
         I found it again when I was with Sri Aurobindo and I gave it to Sri Aurobindo.”

“The Wisdom was near, disguised by its own works,

Of which the darkened universe is the robe.

No more existence seemed an aimless fall,

Extinction was no more the sole release.

The hidden Word was found, the long-sought clue,

Revealed was the meaning of our spirit’s birth,

Condemned to an imperfect body and mind,

In the inconscience of material things

And the indignity of mortal life.

A Heart was felt in the spaces wide and bare,

A burning Love from white spiritual founts

Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths;

Suffering was lost in her immortal smile.”

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