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The battle with the Inconscient is not an individual’s battle, it is a collective battle which God alone can undertake. Yet we have a role to play.

A Secret Bliss is at the root of things. Bliss is the Origin and Source, Bliss is the End and the Goal, the great fulfillment awaiting us at the culmination of the Journey.

The soul has plunged into this great Adventure of Creation because thus alone it could experience the Bliss of Union in countless ways, the Bliss of searching, seeking and the eventual finding.

There is a meaning and each turn and twist of Fate. Everything is used for our advance towards the great Goal which is already foreseen in the Witness Spirit.

There is a deep Wisdom hid in Nature’s secret heart and this Wisdom leads man through each and every event and circumstance towards our high prefigured Goal.

We are led by a mysterious Wisdom that choses all events however seemingly pleasant and unpleasant, good or evil for eventually hastening towards our goal.

It is a work that the Avatara alone can do and none can eventually hinder or help. She alone can and will organize whatever is needed for Her Work.

Summary of Book 6

Fate is a challenge that our soul has accepted to bring out its hidden powers. As long as the full soul power is not yet developed we remain subject to Fate. But once the soul has awakened and discovered its hidden glories, then Fate can be mastered.

Sri Aurobindo now brings out once again the beauty and nobility of Savitri, the force of her character and her ability to naturally renounce the comfortable and royal life for the sake of following her soul’s choice, for the sake of her love.

Savitri readily accepts the new life and the challenge it brings to her. She carries within her breast the will of the gods, her strength can bear the burden of her fate. The seasons pass and like all things turn joy into grief as the moment of fugitive happiness passes. This is the truth that Savitri realizes, the sheer impermanence of all things here.

She is the Divine Mother in a human form. She has assumed this to solve the enigma of human life. But first she must first taste the sorrow that human beings experience.

Savitri contemplates the possibility of an eternal union beyond death or a cyclic return and reunion in other lives. But this too is not enough. Slowly the intensity of her grief turns into stillness and She looks into its heart to discover some remedy for the fatal stroke of Fate.

Savitri is face to face with the enormity of her grief as well as the enormity of her love. Even as she sits contemplating the curve of destiny she must choose, she hears an inner Command descending from the heights, a command that is a mandate and a reminder of her work and her mission..

Savitri receives what can be called as the limbs of an integral yoga that cover each and every aspect of life, which essentially consists of dislodging the ego and desire-self and installing in its place the Divine Consciousness.

Savitri now looks within. She enters into the cosmic past, the past of creation itself. She uncovers in Her being the history of creation, the formation of matter by elemental energies, a gathering of forces around the little point of ego and behind it all seated the secret soul.

Behind the little surface life of man there are powers and forces that can make or mar his world. There are soul-powers asleep within his being even as there are demoniac and dark powers that lie in his subconscious tracts. Our reason is unable to fathom them let alone deal with them.