Only Like Can Know Like -The Mother

A question has suddenly prevailed in me. Though I have some glimpses of the answer, I am unable to find it totally and in detail. So Ma, I want the answer as clearly as possible. I ask you to explain it to me just as things are explained to a child. Here is the question: “It is Sri Aurobindo who has really known the Mother, and it is the Mother who has really known Sri Aurobindo.” What does this mean exactly? I am replying in French in order to explain more clearly. It is only like that can know like. Thus it is only one who has fully realised the Divine and is identified with Him who can recognise the Divine in another person and know that that person has realised the Divine and is identified with Him. The others, all the others, can believe and even have faith, but they cannot know—for true knowledge is acquired by identity. Sri Aurobindo, being the “Avatar” of the Supreme, was the only one who could recognise in me Aditi, the creative Consciousness. And I was the only one who could know for certain that he was the Supreme. The Mother New words of the Mother, p. 69