Then where do the so-called errors and accidents come in an action that should be perfect? It is here that the Apara Prakriti comes in, a delegate power that operates within the limits of the form built by the Paraprakriti. Compare it with the Master City Planner, the Chief organising powers that lay down the details and, the many limited power centres that emerge in the process. These limited power centres do not have the complete picture just as a worker involved in a field does not know the reason for the decisions taken by the Chief Director. He may align with it, execute grudgingly or even resist the decision taken at the apex thereby continuing to act according to its old habits and patterns. This lesser or lower working of the same Divine Intelligence and Power, now limited in the form becomes Apara Prakriti.
‘Sri Aurobindo does not belong to the past nor to history. Sri Aurobindo is the Future advancing towards its realisation. Thus we must shelter the eternal youth required for a speedy advance, in order not to become laggards on the way.’ The Mother
