Book 10 Canto 4 continued. In this remarkable passage we see Savitri revealing the secret of the evolution of forms through an inner compulsion of the soul within.
The psychic being is the real individuality of the true and divine individual within you. For your individuality means your special mode of expression and your psychic being is a special aspect of the one Divine Consciousness that has taken shape in you.
In each life we are given certain possibilities of growth and progress. If we miss that opportunity then we have to still do it but under even more difficult circumstances.
Aswapati has arrived at that high point or rather the highest point in his journey where he is to have the Divine Mother’s Darshan in Her Supreme status, a rarest of rare Grace. He has come here to seek the boon for earth and men.
Our words bind knowledge. Words like Sraddha and Faith are not limited to the meaning we often attribute to them. Sraddha is the very essence of man that ultimately reveals true knowledge.
The perpetual wheel of destiny that carries our lives in a cosmic pool of chance and uncertainty can be very frightening. This is especially so for a man who believes that he can control and micromanage all the events and circumstances of his life.
Today in the series "Sri Aurobindo's Life through His Poems" we read some of the poems that reveal to us a beautiful divinely human side of Sri Aurobindo as the Lover of Humanity.
Aswapati is now face-to-face with the Divine Mother. His one-pointed aspiration has reached Her. She knows his aspiration and has come hearing his cry.
The Mahabharata is not a metaphorical piece nor are Krishna and Arjuna the creations of poetic fancy, the Gita too is not the speculation of a modern logician or philosopher. Therefore we have to prove that anything said in the Gita is not impossible or against reason.
One of the questions that arises in the mind of a sceptic is that if God is the sole Reality then what really prevents us from knowing that That Reality as naturally as we breathe or think or feel. This talk is based on two Mother's conversations separated by nearly 52 years.