Book I Canto I: The Symbol Dawn

Earth isn't ready for pure Divine manifestation, veiling it in ordinary forms. Only man who looks at the future, but future is veiled.

In 1956, despite torrents of Supramental Power, Earth's unconsciousness hindered its manifestation, prolonging transformative processes.

This time, there is a response — something seems ready and we will witness the beginning of the change.

It is the coming down of the Mother.

It’s the “wrote the lines of the significant myth”. It’s is the story of Savitri.

It is the coming down of the first Avatar to wake up the earth to Consciousness — that is, to bring an intensity of Consciousness and Realisation in this inconscient world.

It is the most poetic way of describing the waking up of the Consciousness regarding the invisible things.

Sri Aurobindo describes how the message sent from the Supreme to repair the harm done as by a kind of imperative influence waken up again the Consciousness to begin to climb up, back to the Supreme Consciousness.

Waking up of consciousness that Sri Aurobindo compares to a “smile”. He says “hesitating hue” — that is the first beginning of consciousness.