Here the book ends, alas incomplete. The poem is unfinished, (some pages are lost), even then, Ilion is a wonderful gift to mankind by Sri Aurobindo. However, the speaker has connected the lost chords and told us the story till the end.
At the Feet of The Mother
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Thus Aswapati enters the realm where the finite begins to enter into the Infinite.
All the gods responsible for the different attributes discuss the destiny of men on earth and their part to play. Poseidon, Apollo, Aphrodite, Athena, Hera, Eris - all those gods spoke their part.
Aswapati surrenders himself at the World-Mother’s Feet to do with him as She Wills. He offers his aspiration and all else in wide gesture of self-giving.
Passing to this center and core of creation Aswapati experiences the union of Purusha and Prakriti. Going still further he is face to face with the World-Mother from whom everything emerges.
Here Sri Aurobindo reveals the feelings of most of the key characters of Ilion in his unique way. The mothers, the lovers, the workmen, the peasants, the judges and the great warriors go about their normal lives without the least idea of the destruction that the future is going to bring about.
It is here that the individual soul returns after its journey of each life. It enters into a trance of assimilation in the pure psychic state.
The reason why the most glorious and developed city like Troy was destroyed is a very subtle one and Sri Aurobindo explains it at length. If any part of society develops too much at the expense of others, then Nature has a tendency to bring it down so as to ensure a more holistic development.
Trojan war was fought upon earth, but it was decided by the gods to bring about momentous changes in Greece. If gods have designed the war, men must do their lot. Surpassing their manhood and growing even greater than the gods, they must fight with destiny like true Trojans.