...the advice of the wise ones has always been to approach the life of a sage, seer, yogi, even of a vibhuti, but most of all of an Avatara with all humility and caution.
Dinendra Kumar Roy (1869-1943) lived with Sri Aurobindo in Baroda from 1898 to 1900 or 1901. This text first appeared in the journal Sahitya in Bengali in 1911-1912.
In Canto XI Sri Aurobindo introduces us to the realm of spiritual mind or simply the spiritual realm. Many mistake it for the highest reality and stop here. The action and workings of this realm are being described here.
This talk focuses on education of the vital and the ways and means to help change this recalcitrant part, sources of energy that we use and character of the changes. Followed by several questions and answers.
This Canto describes in great detail the three layers of the little Mind that has so far manifested upon earth. First of this to appear is the physical mind centered around the bodily existence, next - the vital Mind, and finally the rational Mind, the mind that uses Reason to discover truth of things.
In the single persona and figure of Rama we see a perfect symbol of the high and noble Aryan type, the heroic humanity that shrinks not from any battle whether it be inner or outer. But his battles are never for the ostentatious expansion of ambition but for the expansion of dharma.