There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and difficult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers. [The Mother, CWSA 32:3]
Sri Aurobindo describes the first few steps of the journey after death.
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