‘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.
At the Feet of The Mother
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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.
Now, in Canto five we see Aswapati undertaking a new journey, a journey that had not been undertaken before him.
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.
Human journey is through two distinct stages. In the first stage it is nature that covers the soul. Through all the various experiences the soul grows in strength until it becomes the master of nature.
Aswapati, the seer-yogi has broken free from the magic fence of Ignorance. He is now a witness and privy to some profound truths that are hidden from our mind and senses.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
He would guide the world, himself he cannot guide;
He would save his soul, his life he cannot save.
The light his soul had brought his mind has lost;
Equipped with sraddha and prarthana, the sadhaka can walk in the path of yoga confidently as he can feel the joy and protection of the Divine always with him.
Release from Ignorance is the first radical step of yoga. Here we see Aswapati soaring beyond the ignorant mental consciousness that surrounds man and keeps him a prisoner.