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EN 07, PEU APRÈS LA MORT DE SUJATA,
UN TEXTE ÉCRIT PAR KIREET JOSHI

—Le présent texte avait été publié le 3 août 2014* sur le site internet Ohoettilto qui est désormais interdit. Il est republié ici sans aucun changement sauf l’ajout du présent paragraphe. (Kireet Joshi mourut le 14 septembre 2014*.)

—Le texte complet en anglais est ci-après. Il y a notamment des éléments déjà connus de la biographie de Sujata, la liste de ses publications et de celles de Satprem, et plusieurs lignes sur Pavitra et son grand développement.
—De ce texte, il est décidé de n'en traduire que ceci.
« [...] comme la Mère l'indiqua explicitement, sa plasticité et sa réceptivité [celles de Sujata] étaient si transparentes qu'elle pouvait obtenir automatiquement les effets de la progression du Travail de la Mère et de ses recherches yoguiques. Elle resta la compagne de vie de Satprem et lui fournit le plein soutien, l'assistance et les soins. »
—« Plusieurs des visions et expériences de Satprem étaient vécues par elle presque simultanément, [...]. »

AFTER THE DEATH OF SUJATA, A TEXT WRITTEN BY KIREET JUSHI

Sujata-di (1925-2007)
A Tribute
By Kireet Joshi

 —Few are those whose circumstances shape the destiny so propitiously and smoothly as also luminously as what obtained in the case of Suajata-di. She was born (12.12.1925) for the spiritual destiny and spiritual fulfilment. Her father, Prithvi Singh Nahar was a leading personality of Kolkata whose residence at Indian Mirror Street had become a landmark of cultural activities. When she was very young, not even five, the father and his family shifted to Shantiniketan, since he wanted his children to grow up in an atmosphere free from all narrowness. Sujata-di has thus an exceptional privilege to receive care and early education directly from Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore, one of the greatests poets, educationists and citizens of the world of our modern India.
—In 1938, Prithvi Singh and Sujata-di became members of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Sujata-di was one of the first students of the ashram school, and she was one of the first few students whose homework used to be examined and evaluated by the Mother Herself. An interesting subject on which Sujata-di had written a short essay, was centrally significant for her life. The subject was : "Without the Divine, life is a painful illusion, with Him all is bliss". Her essay was short, but the Mother who examined this essay gave her 19 1/2 out of 20 and made the following remark : "Excellent homework from every point of view". Sujata-di had written the following :
"The Divine is the Unique Reality, Love supreme, immutable Peace.
—Without the Unique Reality life is an illusion.
—It is painful because without Love life is a constant turmoil of unreal personalities, it is full of complexities, excessive and inextricable confusion, conflicting thoughts, clashing tendencies and warring desires.
—With him all is bliss because He is the immutable Peace."
—("Mother and Abhay", p. 44)

—Sujata-di was a spontaneous child of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Her sadhana was spontaneous flowering of her soul under the direct sunlight of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. She had spontaneous trust and faith that she was under constant protection of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and that they would take her at every stage of her life where she had to be. She was directly trained by the Mother for varieties of services, and she gained from the Mother dedicated sense of discipline, fearless straight-forwardness in dealing with people, consistent with genuine goodwill for everyone and warm sweetness of affection for all with whom she had personal relationships, provided that these relationships were all offered at the feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
—Sujata-di had great proficiency in English and French as also in Bengali, wich was her mother tongue. She assisted in the office work of Pavitrada, who was the General Secretary of the Ashram, and who was also the Director of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. She regarded her work with Pavitrada as a great privilege, not only because Pavitrada was her teacher and a great mathematician, scientist and engineer, a polytechnicien of the highest order, and an extremely able administrator, organizer, builder and leader. Pavitrada was one of the greatest yogis, about whom the Mother has said that when he left his body, he had no ego and that his personality was so psychically individualized that it could be retained in a state of immortality. Pavitrada imparted to everyone, who came in his contact, a highest example of truthfulness, candour and exemplary refinement in manners. To work with Pavitrada was always an exercise in sadhana that involved discipline and faultless Karma yoga combined with Bhakti yoga. Sujata-di had that exceptional opportunity to work with Pavitrada for years and years.

—Soon after Satprem joined the Ashram en 1954, and soon after Satprem received the privilege of working directly for the Mother, Sujata-di came in close contact with him, and she began to assist him in the work connected with Satprem's conversations with the Mother. Sujata-di had also the privilege of joining Satprem whenever he went to the Mother, and, as the Mother said explicitly, her plasticity and her receptivity were so transparent that she could gain automatic effects of the progression ot the Mother's Work and Her yogic research. She remained Satprem's life-long companion and provided to him full support, assistance and care.

—The stupendous work involved in the preparation of the typescripts of the thirteen volumes of the Mother's Agenda was shouldered by Sujata-di, and her labour of love was truly Herculean, considering not only the heavy responsability of absolute fidelity to absolute correctness of every word that was be printed in the Agenda but also the immense difficulties which surrounded the task of the publication of the Agenda. The heroic battle that Satprem had to fight to bring out the publication of the Mother's Agenda can be a subject of an epic, and she can truly be regarded as a courageous heroine of that epic. A few glimpses of this battle can be found in Volume I of Satprem's "Carnets d'une Apocalyse".

—On 2nd January, 1978 Sujata-di and Satprem were on a visit to Dehradoon. It was there that they received a letter of expulsion signed by the four trustees of the Ashram. Althought ironical for Satprem to be expelled from the Ashram, since he had been the confident of the Mother for twenty years, Sujata-di and Satprem were led to find a quiet and ideal place at "Land's End" where they could secure the needed atmosphere and solitude which were indispensable for the evolutionary work to which they were both spiritually, mentally, vitally, ansd physically devoted. It was at "Land's End" where Sujata-di and Satprem materialized the "Mother's Agenda" and continued the work following Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's tracks. They could have left for France and worked from there. But as Satprem explains : "The center of this work is here, not Paris. It is here that he must materialize things. India is at the heart of the world problem and we must unravel the knot here..." (Vol 1, "Notebooks of an Apocalypse", p. 372)

—It is impossible to recount the colossal work that Sujata-di accomplished at "Land's End". Numerous books came out year after year from the pen of Satprem, and each one of these works was intertwined with labour of self-effacing Sujata-di. In the first place, Satprem brought out three volumes ot the biography of the Mother : "Mother or Divine Materialism", "Mother or New Species", and "Mother or Mutation of Death". Thereafter, thirteen volumes of the "Mother's Agenda" in original French were brought out. This gigantic work was followed by thirteen volumes of the English translation. Then, there were other publications : "My burning Heart", "The Mind of the Cells", "The Revolt of the Earth", "Evolution II", "The Tragedy of the Earth – From Sophocles to Sri Aurobindo" and "Neanderthal looks on". New translations of Satprem's earlier works were also brought out, particularly, "Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness", "On way to Supermanhood", and "By the Body of the Earth or the Sannyasin". There were also some other important minor publications, such as, "The Veda and Human Destiny" and "The Great Sense/Sri Aurobindo and the Future of the Earth".

—After 1981, when Satprem plunged in the depths of his own body's consciousness and began to record the steps of his journey in his "Notebooks", Sujata-di was his constant companion. These nootebooks 'lay bare' or reveal the human or divine secrets that Satprem discovered during his own yoga of the cellular consciousness. Althought only six volumes are yet published (and probably material or nearly subsequent eighteen volumes remains yet to be published), we have in these books the glimpses of the intimate role of Sujata-di had played. Several of Satprem's visions and experiences were shared by her almost simultaneously, and some of them are to be found through sketches that she had drawn to give some concrete form to her own visions.

—Sujata-di was herself an artist and a writer. During these years at "Land's End", she wrote and published six volumes of the Mother's biography, entitled "Mother's Chronicles". These chronicles depict Mother's life as She narrated it to Satprem and as personally witnessed by Sujatadi. The titles of these six volumes are : "Mirra – The artist", "Mirra – The Occultist", "Mirra – Sri Aurobindo", "Mirra meets the Revolutionary", "Mirra in South India". Two more volumes are yet to be published, namely, "Mirra in Japan" and "Mirra – The Mother". Probably many more volumes were envisaged by her. These biographical works bring out unimaginable labour of research, and they manifest Sujata-di's multisided knowledge of Japan and India as also of France and Algeria, and of countless books, novels, legends, of religions and documents and magazines, and practically every possible resource which was relevant to the story of the life of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

—In a few and evocative lines, Sujata-di introduces the reader to the Mother : "Let me ask you : do you like thrillers that take you hunting for the hidden treasure ? Do you like historical novels that take you back in time ? Do you like space odysseys that take you forward in time ? Do you like science fiction stories that break all bounds of space and time ? Do you like scientific discoveries in which scientists painstakingly gather proof after proof and note meticulously their findings ? Do you like the story of evolution ? Evolution that never stops, evolution that has produced you and me – mankind. And finally, who does not like love stories, love so fierce and absolute that it descends into inferno and confronts death in order to retrieve the beloved ?
—"Dear reader, if you like any or many or all of these things, then comme with me. Let us walk together in Mother's Geography and find out.
"Then, perhaps, we shall know : Who is Mother."

—Satprem's and Sujata-di's "Land's End" had become right from the begining a center of dynamic action of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Although not know to most people where exactly was this "Land's End" located, the few who knew the address of Nilgiri Hills in South India were hundreds in number, and they were scattered all over India and France and various other parts of Europe and the world. Several centers of evolutionary research connected with the "Land's End" had come to be established in Paris, Italy, U.S.A. and elsewhere. Then there was the Mother's Institute of Research at New Delhi and Mira Aditi at Mysore. Tens of thousands of letters were received and answered by "Land's End", and all the tremendous load of correspondence was largely attended by Sujata-di. All this correspondence was meticulously classified and stored, and everything was meticulously arranged by Sujata-di. Those who helped in her work were few, but she carried the burden cheerfully and divinely. She kept abreast of current affairs, considering that both, Satprem and she, regarded the tasks of humanity and of India, in particular, as intimately related to Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's supramental Action on the Earth. At the occult level, Satprem and Sujata-di were contributing in some decisive way to the developments in India and the world.

—The work relating to publication was gradually expanding, and Mira Aditi was specially created to facilitate the work of publicaton and distribution. In Paris, there was their great friend, Micheline, who had known the enormous significance of the work of Satprem and Sujata-di. It was a great blow to the work, when she suddently passed away. Her departure added to the volume of work of Sujata-di, but she managed it all efficiently, meticulously and with fullness that Maha Saraswati demands from her obedient instruments.

—Indeed, Sujata-di was an exceptional child of the Divine Mother, and when one saw her at work, one felt around her the atmosphere of the wisdom of Maheshwari, impetuous force of Mahakali, benign love and aristocracy and sweet smile of Mahalakshmi, but what was most active in her work was Mahasaraswati' swift strides towards perfection, and whenever she completed her work, one found that nothing was forgotten or omitted.

—Sujatadi left her body on 4th May 2007, just within a month of the departure of Satprem. We are told that even in their previous births they had worked together. In this birth, they met and came together to work for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and carried forward the great evolutionary work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. We can be sure that even now they are together and they remain connected with all of us and all the others who are engaged in the devoted service of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.