Now Aswapati enters this occult kingdom hidden to human sight and begins to embody their powers. He moves through worlds of an ascending harmony that climb towards the One.
It seems outwardly that in integral yoga there is minimum amount of rules, but in fact the rules are very subtle and demand far more vigilance, as they are an inner necessity rather than outer imposition. Also, the outer rules may not be the same for each individual as each one’s nature and stage different.
Man is too weak to travel the great Path of ascent into a divine nature. ... The hope is there because behind man’s imperfect consciousness there stands the Divine, the Godhead who turns even failure and fall into a means for our progress and evolution.
As Aswapati climbs towards the unseen heights he experiences the vast descent of Divine Force turning his entire being, soul and nature into a living temple and conscious power of the Divine.
‘The Chariot of Jagannath’ is an ideal that Sri Aurobindo envisaged and explained in his early Bengali writings of the same name. It is the symbol of the collective development of Society with the Divine at its centre.
A New Will, a hope immense now seizes Aswapati. He must go further and discover the far end of an inevitable future that awaits man in the far spaces of time. He is born to discover the superman waiting to emerge from within man.
One’s inner attitude determines the way of spiritual life, so the path of genuine evolution opens from within outwards rather than outside in. An inner initiation spontaneously happens with the growth of inner preparation and opening. It could come like a Mantra, or a sentence or an experience. The whole of our life gets its true meaning from this awakening.