It is therefore of small wonder that this day has been called by the Mother ‘the Golden Day’ or ‘the day of the Lord’ (cf. CWM 15, p. 202) for it is the day when Supermind touched the earthly time and when the earth itself was touched by the Supreme.

Supermind will work itself out by the decision of the Supreme. Sri Aurobindo was instrumental in the descent of this miracle, in the invasion of this flood of the Golden Force, ‘this magic order that came overtopping in the mechanical universe’. (cf. CWSA 34, p. 706)

Yes, it was a thing decreed; so when the moment had come, the Mother went up into the Supermind and did what was to be done, the door which was separating the world from the Divine was shattered to pieces and the flood of supramental light kept pouring for 20 minutes — rather she watched it for 20 minutes in meditation and then stopped the meditation. This then was the moment of the Golden Day. Not only was this glorious act of breaking the massive door done in the silence of the evening meditation but it was also kept a secret for almost a month. On 29th March 1956 the Mother distributed a message with a painting named ‘Golden Purusha’ revealing to the world the secret:

Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute:
A new light breaks upon the earth,
A new world is born.
The things that were promised are fulfilled.
(CWM 15, p. 204)

On 24th April 1956, the Mother further explained:

The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a
living fact, a reality.
It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most
unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.
(CWM 15, p. 104)

The promise that the Mother refers to in her declaration is not only the promise made by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother; it is the promise that has been given since the beginning of the earth, it is the promise that has been given “by all kinds of prophets; it has been said, “There will be a new heaven and a new earth, a new race will be born, the world will be transformed....” (CWM 8, p. 127) It is the promise of the ages that has been fulfilled at this moment, on this Golden Day.

In fact, if we understand Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy rightly we understand that this is the moment toward which all the previous avatars had been working. All the Avatars, accorded in the Indian parable of Dashavatar — every avatar, every Vibhuti, every saint — have actually worked towards this great moment knowingly or unknowingly. Therefore the manifestation of the Supermind is in reality the beginning of a second creation; the first creation came to an end with the manifestation of the Supermind. Although we cannot see this new light in our blindness, it marks in the history of the universe the beginning of a new creation.

If the promises ‘are fulfilled’, then where ‘is the new race’, asked the disciples. The Mother answered:

The new race? Wait for something like… a few thousand years, and you will see it!

     When the mind descended upon earth, between the time the mind manifested in the earth-atmosphere and the time the first man appeared, nearly a million years elapsed. Now it will go faster because man