Dear Readers,

Darshan greetings to all!

This is a very special year – 2013…it marks the beginning of the centenary year of the first arrival of our beloved Mother to Pondicherry. March 29, 1914 – the blessed day when the Mother Earth opened herself to a new era in her evolutionary march toward the Heavens Above, when the possibility of a Divine Life on Earth took its first concrete shape, when the Mother Creatrix met with the Divine Purusha and a new beginning was made for the Yoga of the Nature.

This special issue of New Race marks the beginning of a year-long celebration at SACAR of the Mother's arrival and meeting with Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. As a small gesture of our adoration and deep gratitude for all that we owe to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, we at SACAR make this humble offering at the Lotus Feet of the Mother.

"The Divine puts on an appearance of humanity, assumes the outward human nature in order to tread the path and show it to human beings, but does not cease to be the Divine"(SABCL, Vol. 25, p. 48). The excerpts included in this issue were selected in order to bring out what Nolini-da speaks of as the "twofold truth" of the Mother's work – Mother Divine and Mother Human. These selections highlight the deeper significance of the Mother's coming to Pondicherry, and present a broad and deeper view of the gigantic work that was taken up by the Mother to manifest the highest realisations of the Sprit in a variety of forms and expressions in Matter.

We hope our readers will appreciate the selections, and as always we welcome comments and suggestions from our readers.

Till next time….
Beloo