Part 3 of the series Sri Aravinda Mahatmyam or The Greatness of Sri Aurobindo. Looks at the unique place Mother Sri Aurobindo occupy in the spiritual history of humanity and the radical shift that they have brought about in human evolution

1. Sri Aravinda Mahatmyam
The Greatness of Sri Aurobindo
Part 3 – Savitr: The Creator Sun

2. This bodily appearance is not all;
The form deceives, the person is a mask.
Hid deep in man celestial powers can dwell.

3. 3 Frames of reference in Sri
Aurobindo’s Jeevan Katha
Who is the:
↑ Protagonist – Main actor / lead player
↑ Antagonist – Opponent / Enemy
↑ Deuteragonist – Double / Friend & Helper
We will take this up in reverse order:
↓ Deuteragonist – “Sri Aurobindo & Sri Krishna”
↓ Antagonist – “The Mother’s War”
↓ Protagonist – “Savitr: The Creator Sun”

4. Sri Krishna: Sri Aurobindo’s Double

5. “No Difference”
From Champaklal Speaks, page 39.
Sri Krishna and Sri Aurobindo
Kamala's brother Mahesh had come to me in 1923.
Obviously we both came for the same purpose, but I found
a difference in Sri Aurobindo's way of dealing with us. To
me he was speaking and guiding me in his Yoga but to
Mahesh he talked of bhakti and upasana [worship] of Sri
Krishna. Later I found out that Mahesh was intensely
drawn to Sri Krishna and his path was different from mine.
One day, however, he expressed his difficulty in
reconciling his adoration of Sri Krishna with his surrender
to Sri Aurobindo.
Sri Aurobindo told him: "There is no difference between
Krishna and me."

6. Later on, as the interior and
exterior development proceeded,
the spiritual and psychic relation
with one of these beings became
more and more clear and
frequent;
and although I knew little of
the Indian philosophies and
religions at that time I was led
to call him Krishna, and
henceforth I was aware that it
was with him (whom I knew I
should meet on earth one day)
that the divine work was to be
done.
Meeting “Krishna”

7. Identity even in their outer life
We see almost exact parallels between Sri
Krishna and Sri Aurobindo:
• The Anandamaya consciousness that
impersonally engages in the most terrible
world-work
• Re-establishers of Dharma Raj in India,
Dharmocratic politicians and leaders
• Divine fighters and victors who continually
war against adharma

8. World redeemers
• Yogeshwar: the Lord of Yoga who
synthesizes and evolves spirituality for a
new age
• Divine Poets (Kavi) who gave expression
to the highest Spiritual Truth
• World-uniters who impersonally work to
bring about human unity and harmony

9. 3 Frames of reference in Sri
Aurobindo’s Jeevan Katha
Who is the:
↑ Protagonist – Main actor / lead player
↑ Antagonist – Opponent / Enemy
↑ Deuteragonist – Double / Friend & Helper
We will take this up in reverse order:
↓ Deuteragonist – “Sri Aurobindo & Sri Krishna”
↓ Antagonist – “The Mother’s War”
↓ Protagonist – “Savitr: The Creator Sun”

10. The Mother’s War - WWII
You have said that you have begun to doubt whether
it was the Mother’s war and ask me to make you feel
again that it is. I affirm again to you most strongly
that this is the Mother’s war. You should not think
of it is as a fight for certain nations against others or
even for India; it is a struggle for an ideal that has to
establish itself on earth in the life of humanity, of a
Truth that has yet to realize itself fully and against a
darkness and falsehood that are trying to overwhelm
the earth and mankind in the immediate future. It is
the forces behind the battle that have to be seen
and not this or that superficial circumstance.

11. What was Hitler?
• The instrument - Medium
• The problem is not with mediums but who they represent
• If the Divine can express through a medium so can The
Asura
• Hitler became the channel for the most powerful hostile
being
• The Mother: “Hitler was a very good medium, he had
great mediumistic capacities, but he lacked intelligence
and discrimination”.

12. The most dangerous moment in
human history
• The most diabolical Force – the lord of the
Nations
• Found the most perfect instrument – the
completely obedient medium Hitler
• Who controlled the most potent power –
the supremely capable Germans
• In the worst conditions possible – a world
completely under dictators (Asuric beings
in their own rights)

13. “The fierce enormous plan”
The plan dictated to him by his god:
1.Destroy
2.Dehumanize &
3.Demonize
A perfect plan for the absolute degradation of
the human race!!

14. The Mother’s Vision for humanity
• Divinize: That part of humanity, of human consciousness,
which is capable of uniting with the supermind and liberating
itself, will be completely transformed--it is advancing towards
a future reality which is not yet expressed in its outer form.
• Dehumanize (harmonize with nature): The part which is
closest to Nature, to animal simplicity, will be reabsorbed into
Nature and thoroughly assimilated. We must rise above,
spring up into the Light and Harmony or fall back, down into
the simplicity of a healthy unperverted animal life.
• Destroy (the demonic element): But the corrupted part of
human consciousness which allows perversion through its
misuse of the mind will be abolished. This type of humanity is
part of an unfruitful attempt--which must be eliminated--just as
there have been other abortive species which have
disappeared in the course of universal history.

15. Conclusion: what did Hitler and
Nazism represent?
• The shadow, the very opposite, the absolute
perversion of the Divine Truth Mother Sri
Aurobindo were working to manifest.
• While They aimed to Divinze humanity, his aim
was to demonize it. While their aim was to uplift
manav into ati-manav, Hitler’s aim was to
degrade manav into danav.

16. Action of Mother Sri Aurobindo
• Direct intervention using their Yoga-Shakti:
– Dunkirk
– The invasion of Russia
• Public adhesion and contribution to war effort
• Occult participation in the war even on the front-
lines (John Kelly)
• Sri Aurobindo himself consents to endure blow
from hostile forces. (“accident” in 1938)
• Use of Churchill as instrument

17. The End of WWII
• Date: August 15th
!
• It is officially referred to as V-J Day
(Victory over Japan Day)
• August 15th
is the new VIJAY DIVAS – The
Victory of the Mother

18. Mother Sri Aurobindo – The
Greatest Hope of Humanity
• If the Asuric Shakti behind Hitler was the
greatest danger humanity ever faced and
he was the very opposite of Mother Sri
Aurobindo… what does this tell us about
Them?
• That Sri Aurobindo & The Mother
represent the greatest Hope of
humanity.

19. Mother Sri Aurobindo – The
Supreme Divine Manifestation
• If the power behind Hitler was the most
demonic force ever to descend upon the
Earth…
• Then Sri Aurobindo & The Mother
constitute the greatest manifestation of
the Divine upon the Earth.

20. Mother Sri Aurobindo – The
Supreme Love
• If the force behind Hitler was the greatest
and most violent movement of hatred ever
witnessed…
• Then Sri Aurobindo & The Mother
together are the physical and concrete
embodiment of the highest and
supreme Divine Love

21. Mother Sri Aurobindo – Our Divine
Future
• If the fierce, enormous plan of the Asuric
Shakti behind Hitler represented the
lowest possible degradation and
disfigurement of humanity…
• Then Sri Aurobindo & The Mother are
here to fulfill the ultimate Divine
destiny of humanity and all life on
earth!

22. The final role: The Protagonist
• We have seen that Sri Aurobindo’s
double, his deuteragonist, is Sri Krishna,
whom he includes and surpasses
• We have also seen that Sri Aurobindo’s
antagonist is the Asuric force behind Hitler
which seeks to degrade and demonize the
human race

23. Clue - Definition of protagonist
- The leading character, hero, or heroine of
a drama or other literary work
- The leader or principal person in a
movement, cause, etc.
- The first actor in ancient Greek drama

24. The One whom we adore as The Mother
is the Divine Conscious Force
that dominates all existence

25. Mother Sri Aurobindo ARE ONE
The Mother's consciousness and
mine are the same, the one
Divine Consciousness in two,
because that is necessary for the
play. Nothing can be done without
her knowledge and force, without
her consciousness - if anybody
really feels her consciousness, he
should know that I am there
behind it and if he feels me it is
the same with hers.

26. They are One… from the beginning
There is no difference
between the Mother's
path and mine; we have
and have always had the
same path, the path that
leads to the supramental
change and the divine
realisation; not only at
the end, but from the
beginning they have
been the same.

27. Division – A ploy of hostile forces
The attempt to set up a
division and opposition,
putting the Mother on one
side and myself on another
and opposite or quite
different side, has always
been a trick of the forces
of the Falsehood when
they want to prevent a
Sadhak from reaching
the Truth. Dismiss all such
falsehoods from your mind.

28. What the Mother says
Now remember one thing. Sri
Aurobindo and myself are one
and the same consciousness,
one and the same person.
Only, when this force or this
presence, which is the same,
passes through your
individual consciousness, it
puts on a form, an
appearance which differs
according to your
temperament, your aspiration,
your need, the particular turn
of your being.

29. Conclusion
• One cannot know who Sri Aurobindo is
without knowing who The Mother is
• To know Sri Aurobindo one must know the
Mother
• To know the Mother is to know Sri
Aurobindo

30. Who is the Mother?
• The Divine Mother is the
Consciousness and
Force of the Divine -
which is the Mother of all
things.
• The Mother is the
consciousness and force
of the Divine - or, it may
be said, she is the Divine
in its consciousness-
force (Chit-Shakti).

31. Consciousness Force – Chit Shakti
Consciousness is not only power of awareness of self and things, it is
or has also a dynamic and creative energy.
It can determine its own reactions or abstain from reactions; it can not
only answer to forces, but create or put out from itself forces.
Consciousness is Chit but also Chit Shakti.
Consciousness is usually identified with mind, but mental
consciousness is only the human range which no more exhausts all the
possible ranges of consciousness than human sight exhausts all the
gradations of colour or human hearing all the gradations of sound —
for there is much above or below that is to man invisible and inaudible.
So there are ranges of consciousness above and below the human
range, with which the normal human has no contact and they seem to it
unconscious, — supramental or overmental and submental ranges.

33. The One whom we adore as The Mother
is the Divine Conscious Force
that dominates all existence
All is she, for
all are parcel
and portion of
the divine
Conscious-
Force
Nothing can
be, here or
elsewhere, but
what she
decides and
the Supreme
sanctions

34. In Plain English
The Mother is the Divine Conscious Force or
the Consciousness-Force of the Divine.
The Mother is the Will of the Supreme Divine
“Without him, I exist not; without me, he is
unmanifest”
If this is the Mother, who is Sri Aurobindo?

35. Sri Aurobindo - Ma
Purushottama - Para Prakriti
Supreme Spirit - Higher Nature
Paramatma - Adi Shakti
Supreme Soul - Supreme Power
Parameshwara - Parameshwari
Supreme Lord - Great Goddess
Parabrahman - Mahamaya
Supreme Divine – Great power of creation

36. The Deeper Mystery
We know now who is
the Mother. She is the
Will of the Supreme
Divine made manifest.
But why does She
manifest in the first
place?

37. The reason for the Mother’s
manifestation
Her embodiment is a chance for the earth-
consciousness to receive the Supramental into
it and to undergo first the transformation
necessary for that to be possible.
Sri Aurobindo in 1926: 'I am seeking to bring down
the Supermind... into the earth-consciousness... I
feel it ever gleaming down on my consciousness
from above and am seeking to make it possible for
it to take up the whole being into its own native
power....'

38. The need for an Avatar
• The Divine is One with Creation. All this is
not just creation, but manifestation
• Therefore, when the Divine manifests
something new the Divine HAS TO
BECOME
• An Avatar therefore is God becoming
something new that He wishes to manifest

39. Still… Why not just ONE Avatar?
What is the reason for the FULL manifestation of
the Divine and His Shakti?

40. Possible reasons for full manifestation
of the Divine and His Shakti
• Union of East and West
• Union of Masculine and Feminine
• Union of Yoga and Tantra
• Union of Spiritual and occult… etc. etc.
etc.
All these are valid, but not the main reason.

41. The answer is
… in Sri Aurobindo’s symbol

42. The meaning of the symbol
The descending
triangle represents
Sat-Chit-Ananda.
The ascending
triangle represents
the aspiring answer
from matter under
the form of life, light
and love.

43. The meaning of the symbol
The junction of both -
the central square - is
the perfect
manifestation having
at its centre the Avatar
of the Supreme - the
lotus.
The water - inside the
square - represents the
multiplicity, the
creation.

44. The Hexagram
This symbol has
been used in all
occult traditions
since ancient times.
Indian meaning:
The downward
triangle symbolizes
Shakti, the sacred
embodiment of
femininity, and the
upward triangle
symbolizes, or Agni
Tattva, representing
the focused aspects
of masculinity.
The mystical union of the two triangles
represents Creation, occurring through
the divine union of masculing and
feminine.

45. Different interpretations
Common significance
• The meaning given by the Mother and the
traditional meaning are both different.
• But they both have one common result:
The union of the two triangles results in
CREATION

46. Another Parallel
Union of
Shiva-linga
and Yoni
representing
the union of
Purusha and
Prakriti
Again the
result is:
CREATION

47. The Central Square
• The square has always been
considered a symbolic representation
of PERFECTION
• Mother has used it here to represent
the PERFECT MANIFESTATION
• The waters inside represent
CREATION with the Lotus representing
the Divine Avatar
• Substitute SUPRAMENTAL for
PERFECT and you are left with:
SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION

48. The true reason: CREATION
The Supramental Manifestation
The Supramental Creation
The New World

49. The reason for the full
manifestation: CREATION
Never before in history has the FULL
manifestation of the Highest Divine and His
Supreme Shakti taken place.
We go back to what happens when Purusha
& Prakriti unite, when Ishwara and Ishwari
unite, when Shiva and Shakti unite, when
Brahman and Maya unite… CREATION

50. The way of working of the Avatar
Each Avatar comes to give three things:
Dharma - Provides a teaching or path
Sangha - A fellowship and a collectivity
Avatar - Give his personal example to emulate

51. The 3 Elements of the Avataric
Mission - Examples
These three are always
the necessary elements of
the work of the Avatar. In
the Buddhistic formula the
disciple takes refuge from
all that opposes his
liberation in three powers,
the dharma, the sangha,
the Buddha. So in
Christianity we have the
law of Christian living, the
Church and the Christ.

52. The 3 Elements of the Avataric
Mission - Examples
In Vaishnavism there is the
same trio, bhāgavata,
bhakta, bhagavān, – the
bhāgavata, which is the law
of the Vaishnava
dispensation of adoration
and love, the bhakta
representing the fellowship
of those in whom that law is
manifest, bhagavāan, the
divine Lover and Beloved in
whose being and nature
the divine law of love is
founded and fulfils itself.

53. We can see all these three elements in
the work of Mother Sri Aurobindo

54. The 3 aspects of an Avatar’s
Mission – The Dharma
He gives a dharma, a
law of self-discipline by
which to grow out of the
lower into the higher life
and which necessarily
includes a rule of action
and of relations with our
fellowmen and other
beings, endeavour in
the eightfold path or the
law of faith, love and
purity or any other such
revelation of the nature
of the divine in life.

55. The 3 Elements of the Avataric
Mission – The Sangha
Then because every
tendency in man has its
collective as well as its
individual aspect,
because those who
follow one way are
naturally drawn together
into spiritual
companionship and
unity, he establishes the
sangha, the fellowship
and union of those whom
his personality and his
teaching unite.

56. The 3 Elements of the Avataric
Mission – The Avatar
The Avatar represents
this third element, the
divine personality, nature
and being who is the
soul of the Dharma and
the sangha, informs
them with himself, keeps
them living and draws
men towards the felicity
and the liberation.

57. An over-abundance of divine riches
• Not only are all three elements of the Avataric mission
present in the Work of Mother Sri Aurobindo, there is
more sheer quantity than in the work of any other Avatar
• Dharma – There is more direct guidance from both
Mother Sri Aurobindo in volume and scope and depth
than any previous Avatar
• Sangha – No previous Avatar has been able to establish
a global sangha in such a short time, with such a vast
reach
• Avatar – We have not just one but two Purna-Avatars
living in the full glare of history.

58. Mother Sri Aurobindo go beyond the
3 aspects of an avatar’s mission
Avatars in the past have
given a teaching, created
a following, set an
example and, at most,
incarnated a new level of
consciousness.
But never in all history has
anyone descended to
CREATE A NEW WORLD,
THE PERFECT
MANIFESTATION

59. The yoga of the divine in the Gita
MAE YOGAM – My Yoga
AISHWARAM – Divine

60. Why does Krishna describe his
action as Yoga?
• Because the Divine performs actions in
Yoga-with-Himself, fully conscious of his
Divine Self
• The word Yoga in the Gita is used to
mean “Divine action”
• But is this all the meaning of the Yoga of
the Divine?

61. Discovery of Mother Sri Aurobindo
The Yoga of the Divine in Nature:
In the right view both of life and of Yoga all life is either consciously or
subconsciously a Yoga. For we mean by this term a methodised effort
towards self-perfection by the expression of the secret potentialities
latent in the being and – highest condition of victory in that effort – a
union of the human individual with the universal and transcendent
Existence we see partially expressed in man and in the Cosmos. But
all life, when we look behind its appearances, is a vast Yoga of
Nature who attempts in the conscious and the subconscious to realise
her perfection in an ever-increasing expression of her yet unrealised
potentialities and to unite herself with her own divine reality. In man,
her thinker, she for the first time upon this Earth devises self-conscious
means and willed arrangements of activity by which this great purpose
may be more swiftly and puissantly attained.
The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man;
man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out
superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a
divine nature.

62. Moksha - One Goal of ALL Yogic
spirituality so far including Gita
• Moksha – This has been the highest goal
so far
• All spirituality, include the Shakti-vada of
the Tantra and the Mayavada of the
Advaitin
• How much ever they disagree aim at
some form of liberation, MOKSHA

63. All Spiritual practice in one word
•Thousands upon thousands of spiritual paths
•Different methods, innumerable teachers
•Still one goal: Moksha, Bhoota-Prakriti-Moksha, the
liberation of individual beings from Nature
•One fundamental process: ATI-VARTANA
TRANSCENDENCE
For this goal Nature (Prakriti) was the greatest enemy and
ultimately became in the philosophy of Mayavada, the power
of Illusion, deception and fraud

64. The Two Natures

65. What the Integral Yoga is NOT
They did not come to give a yoga for
individuals as a way out, a means of escape
This is not the Yoga of an individual seeking
for Moksha (liberation) through Ati-vartana
(transcendence)

66. The Yoga that Mother Sri
Aurobindo were engaged in
This is the Yoga of the Divine, the Yoga of Nature
seeking her own secret Divinity
The Integral Yoga is the Purna Yoga, a Yoga of
Purnata (Perfection) through Pari-vartan
(Transformation)
It is radically different from all other Yogas which
seek Moksha (liberation) through Ati-vartan
(Transcendence)

67. There is a zero sign of the Supreme;
Nature left nude and still uncovers God.
But in her grandiose nothingness all is there:
When her strong garbs are torn away from us,
The soul's ignorance is slain but not the soul:
The zero covers an immortal face.
A high and blank negation is not all,
A huge extinction is not God's last word,
Life's ultimate sense, the close of being's course,
The meaning of this great mysterious world.
In absolute silence sleeps an absolute Power.
Awaking, it can wake the trance-bound soul
And in the ray reveal the parent sun:
It can make the world a vessel of Spirit's force,
It can fashion in the clay God's perfect shape.
To free the self is but one radiant pace;
Here to fulfil himself was God's desire.

68. This is why we see in Mother Sri Aurobindo the full
manifestation of the Highest Divine and His
Supreme Shakti
Their Yoga is the Yoga of the Divine
It’s result is not individual liberation but a
NEW CREATION
Which represents the fulfillment of God and
Nature, of God in Nature and Nature in God

69. The Supramental Manifestation
Feb 29th
, 1956
This evening the Divine
Presence, concrete and
material, was there
present amongst you. I
had a form of living gold,
bigger than the universe,
and I was facing a huge
and massive golden door
which separated the
world from the Divine.

70. As I looked at the door, I knew
and willed, in a single
movement of consciousness,
that “the time has come,” and
lifting with both hands a mighty
golden hammer I struck one
blow, one single blow on the
door and the door was shattered
to pieces. Then the
Supramental Light and Force
and Consciousness rushed
down upon earth in an
uninterrupted flow.
The Supramental Manifestation
Feb 29th, 1956

71. Mother’s Message
29th
March, 1956:
“The Lord has willed and I
execute:
A new light breaks upon
the earth,
A new world is born
The things that were
promised are fulfilled.”
25th
Sept, 1914:
“The Lord has willed and
Thou dost execute:
A new light shall break
upon the earth.
A new world shall be
born,
And the things that were
promised shall be
fulfilled.
"The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a
promise but a living fact, a reality.
It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most
unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it."

72. Isha Upanishad
The Mother's power and not any human endeavour and
tapasya can alone rend the lid and tear the covering and
shape the vessel and bring down into this world of obscurity
and falsehood and death and suffering Truth and Light and
Life divine and the immortal's Ananda.

73. From Individual to Cosmic
What I call a 'descent' is this: first of all, the consciousness climbs in
ascent, then you catch the Thing up above and redescend with it. This is
an INDIVIDUAL event.
When this individual event has taken place sufficiently to allow a more
general possibility to emerge, it is no longer a 'descent' but a 'manifestation’.
What I call a 'descent' is the individual movement in an individual
consciousness. But when a new world is manifesting in an old world -
as when similarly the mind spread over the earth - I call it a
manifestation.
What I call a 'descent' takes place in the individual consciousness. In the
same way, we speak of 'ascent' (there is no ascent really, there is no high or
low, no direction: it's all a manner of speaking) - we speak of 'ascent' when
we feel ourselves rising up towards something, and we call it a 'descent'
when, after having caught this thing, we bring it down into ourselves.
But when the doors are opened and the flood pours in, it can no longer be
called a 'descent': it is a Force that spreads everywhere.

74. The New World
That other world is necessarily an
absolutely new experience. One
would have to go back to the time
when there was a transition from
the animal to the human creation
to find a similar period, and at that
time the consciousness was not
sufficiently mentalised to be able to
observe, understand, feel
intelligently – the passage must
have been made in a completely
obscure way. So, what I am
speaking about is absolutely new,
unique in the terrestrial creation,
it is something unprecedented,
truly a perception or a sensation or
an impression…that is quite strange
and new.

75. The New Way
The old spirituality was an escape from
life into the divine Reality, leaving the
world just where it was, as it was;
whereas our new vision, on the
contrary, is a divinisation of life, a
transformation of the material world into
a divine world. This has been said,
repeated, more or less understood, indeed
it is the basic idea of what we want to do.
But this could be a continuation with an
improvement, a widening of the old world
as it was – and so long as this is a
conception up there in the field of thought,
in fact it is hardly more than that – but
what has happened, the really new
thing, is that a new world is born, born,
born. It is not the old one transforming
itself, it is a new world which is born.
And we are right in the midst of this period
of transition where the two are entangled –
where the other still persists all-powerful
and entirely dominating the ordinary
consciousness, but where the new one is
quietly slipping in, still very modest,

76. Never Forget
People sleep, they forget, they take life easy
— they forget, forget all the time…. But if we
could remember… that we are at an
exceptional hour, a unique time, that we have
this immense good fortune, this invaluable
privilege of being present at the birth of a new
world, we could easily get rid of everything
that impedes and hinders our progress.
So, the most important thing, it seems, is
to remember this fact; even when one
doesn’t have the tangible experience, to have
the certainty of it and faith in it; to remember
always, to recall it constantly, to go to sleep
with this idea, to wake up with this perception;
to do all that one does with this great truth as
the background, as a constant support, this
great truth that we are witnessing the
birth of a new world. We can participate in
it, we can become this new world. And
truly, when one has such a marvelous
opportunity, one should be ready to give up
everything for its sake.

77. Who is Sri Aurobindo?
Conventional wisdom
• Yogi - Creator of something called the Integral Yoga (which is now
trademarked by one Swami Satchitananda)
• Philosopher - Gave the very extensive philosophy of Life Divine.
• Revolutionary - A leader of the Indian freedom movement. Fought the
British with his pen.
• Nationalist - The “prophet of Indian Nationalism” and its father. Awakener
of the dormant Indian spirit
• Author - Wrote many books – 37 volumes now
• Poet - Wrote Savitri – 25,000 line epic – largest in English literature

78. Others say..
• Guru – Preceptor (Good)
• Rishi – Seer (Better)
• Bhagavan – God (Very close)
• Avatar – Incarnation (Is that it?)

79. Where shall we put Sri Aurobindo?
• There are no existing categories
• There are no existing definitions
• He is beyond all other Gurus, Swamis, Rishis,
Yogis, Philosophers, Patriots
• He is beyond even the terms AVATAR and
BHAGAVAN

80. Since the beginning of earthly history Sri
Aurobindo has always presided over the great
earthly transformations, under one form or
another, under one name or another

81. He was, is and ever remains
The Creator of each New World
The Sun of Truth

82. All here where each thing seems its lonely self
Are figures of the sole transcendent One:
Only by him they are, his breath is their life;
An unseen Presence moulds the oblivious clay.
A playmate in the mighty Mother's game,
One came upon the dubious whirling globe
To hide from her pursuit in force and form.
A secret spirit in the Inconscient's sleep,
A shapeless Energy, a voiceless Word,
He was here before the elements could emerge,
Before there was light of mind or life could breathe.
He is the Maker and the world he made,
He is the vision and he is the Seer;
He is himself the actor and the act,
He is himself the knower and the known,
He is himself the dreamer and the dream.

83. Savitr – Creator Sun
But who, then, is Surya, the Sun, from whom these rays proceed? He is the Master of Truth,
Surya the Illuminator, Savitri the Creator, Pushan the Increaser. His rays in their own nature
are supramental activities of revelation, inspiration, intuition, luminous discernment, and they
constitute the action of that transcendent principle which the Vedanta calls Vijnana, the
perfect knowledge, the Veda Ritam, the Truth.
All the other gods follow in this march of Surya and they attain to his vastness by the force of
his illumination. That is to say, all the other divine faculties or potentialities in man expand
with the expansion of the Truth and Light in him; in the strength of the ideal supermind they
attain to the same infinite amplitude of right becoming, right action and right knowledge. The
Truth in its largeness moulds all into the terms of the infinite and universal Life, replaces with
it the limited individual existence, maps out in the terms of their real being the realms of the
physical consciousness which, as Savitri, it has created.

85. He is still with us
Shall I accept death or shall I turn and
wrestle with him and conquer? That shall be
as God in me chooses. For whether I live or
die, I am always.
Sri Aurobindo
(375−Thoughts and Aphorisms)

86. The one need - Open to the Mother
One who receives and accepts and lives in the Mother's light,
will begin to see the truth on all the planes, the mental, the vital,
the physical. He will reject all that is undivine, -- the undivine is
the falsehood, the ignorance, the error of the dark forces; the
undivine is all that is obscure and unwilling to accept the divine
Truth and its light and force. The undivine, therefore, is all
that is unwilling to accept the light and force of the Mother.
That is why I am always telling you to keep yourself in contact
with the Mother and with her light and Force, because it is only
so that you can come out of his confusion and obscurity and
receive the Truth that comes from above.