Nolini Kanto Gupta came in contact with the god Varuna

Raman’75 continues his series on Collective Meditation in the Ashram

Compiler’s Notes The Golden Chain FEBRUARY 2006

These early meditations with the Mother belong to what Sri Aurobindo called "the brightest period in the history of the Ashram".1 This period represents an early and occult phase of sadhana in the Ashram which began shortly before the Siddhi Day and ended a few months after the descent of the Overmind on 24 November 1926. The Mother took up the responsibility of Sri Aurobindo’s disciples and immediately "a very brilliant creation was worked out in extraordinary detail, with marvellous experiences, contacts with divine beings, and all kinds of manifestations which are considered miraculous".2

Each one came in touch with the "inner godhead he represents". Nolini Kanto Gupta came in contact with the god Varuna 3 who represents vastness and purity, Haradhan Bakshi with Twashtri, the Divine Fashioner, and Rajani Palit with Kubera, the God of Wealth. Purushottam identified himself in a state of trance with "Sesha-naga, the primal energy that sustains the material world" and became a means of the spiritual purification of others under the Mother’s own supervision. This sometimes worked itself out in a rather unusual way at the physical level. Champaklal, for example, was pounded by him for almost an hour and the result was so beneficial that Sri Aurobindo remarked, "Champaklal has become a demi-god". Similarly, he gave a twist to Barin Ghose’s throat and the latter found his "head shooting up and up until [heing down on everybody from a great height".

Later, Purushottam was strongly discouraged by the Mother from such actions when the ocslow and difficult process of purification of the lower vital and physical began for the sadhaks and sadhikas of the Ashram. 4 ] was lookcult phase of the sadhana came to an end and a slow and difficult process of purification of the lower vital and physical began for the sadhaks and sadhikas of the Ashram. Endnotes
1. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, On Himself, Volume 26, p 472.
2. The Mother’s Collected Works, Volume 9, p 148.
3. A copy of the first edition of Sri Aurobindo’s book The Mother found in Nolini Kanto Gupta’s papers is addressed "To Varuna" with the Mother’s signature below it.
4. See Champaklal Speaks (2002), p 71. 