This talk takes up the main issue of human life, the problem of his bondage to ignorance and death and subjection to the determinism of material nature.
Today we take up the first part of Book One Canto Four titled the Secret Knowledge. This talk is focused on the soul and the Divine Grace that helps us in our journey.
Behind the veil of our solid outer world and its forms that we see and touch there exists a Kingdom of subtle matter. It is this world, its beings and forces and action, function and influences, that is being described here in this Canto.
This canto is about an intermediate stage through which evolution passes. It is a stage when higher emotions and imaginations come into play to pull the being out of the bog and mire of the lower vital nature.
Aswapati seeks to know now the reason why life fails to climb beyond a certain level. For this he must plunge into the dark abysses that hold back its flights.
It is important to know this world and its workings so that we are vigilant in our journey towards the eternal Truth and Light and Peace and Beauty and Bliss. A Wisdom works hidden and asleep in the heart of the Night.
Here Aswapati is moving through the Paradise of Life-Gods. It is a state of perpetual joy. To such a warrior soul this comes as a gift and a temporary rest and release.