Book Three comes to a close with the completion of Aswapati’s tapasya.
At the Feet of The Mother
Book Three: The Book of the Divine Mother
Aswapati now returns to earth back to the mortal state amidst the speed and rumour of terrestrial things.
The Divine Mother withdraws into the secrecy of Her Silence.
The tremendous moment has arrived when the Divine Mother will grant the boon asked for by Aswapati.
Now the penultimate moment arrives for which Aswapati, the Seer-king and Yogi has come so far.
Mother Nature, material mother awaits with patience for the coming of the New World.
Sri Aurobindo’s prophetic vision is described here as the coming of children who would embody the New Creation.
Aswapati has seen the hidden plan of God. It is His creation and it cannot fail.
Aswapati is carrying the human anguish to the very highest seat of Power beyond which there is none other.
Aswapati starts his pleadings with the Divine Mother praying for the boon he has come to ask.
Aswapati has arrived at the highest point of his individual sadhana. He is face to face with the Divine Mother.
Man evolves slowly with the Eternal’s touch, even though with doubt, uncertainty and resistance.
The hope for man is within. It is in the fact that the Divine Presence within you.
It is due to these inherent contradictions in human life that we miss life’s goal.
The irony of man that he believes himself to be what he is not and misses to be what he is meant to be.
Man’s nature is full of contradictions. His life is as if governed by contradictory wills which pull him in different directions.
The human journey upon earth is full of danger and difficulties posed by opposing powers arisen from the abysses of darkness and inconscience.
Human life is an enigma, a riddle as it were that we are here to solve.