Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

7. The Purpose of Avatarhood

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In the yoga we do not strive after greatness. It is not a question of Sri Krishna’s disciples but of the earth-consciousness. Rama was a mental man, there is no touch of the overmind consciousness (direct) in anything he said or did, but what he did was done with the greatness of the Avatar. But there have since been men who did live in touch with the planes above mind – higher mind, illumined mind, intuition. There is no question of asking whether they were “greater” than Rama; they might have been less “great”, but they were able to live from a new plane of consciousness. And Krishna’s opening the overmind certainly made it possible for the attempt at bringing supermind to the earth to be made.