"Ever disguised she awaits the seeking spirit;
Watcher on the supreme unreachable peaks,
Guide of the traveller of the unseen paths,
She guards the austere approach to the Alone. "
Savitri - The World Soul
ALL LIFE IS YOGA(sarva (ananta) jivanam nitya-yogamastu)
“One must accept infirmity and even accept looking like an imbecile, one must accept everything, and there is not one person in fifty millions who has the courage to do it (Sri Aurobindo told me I was the only one!…[laughing] It may be so!). Many have also gone off elsewhere, into other, more or less subtle worlds— you see, there are millions of ways to escape, but only one way to stay: that is to have courage and endurance, to accept all the appearances of infirmity, powerlessness, ignorance—the appearances of the very negation of truth. But if one does not accept that, nothing will ever change. As for those who want to go on being great, luminous, strong, powerful and so on and so forth, well, let them stay where they are, they cannot do anything for earth.”
The Mother
The Mother's Agenda-25.09.1965
(The Mother's above Subconscient transformation experience hints that if one very rarest of the rare Soul has Supramental force at his disposal then he can adventure into the dark Inconscient and Subconscient Sheaths to face and confront all infirmity, powerlessness and negations and Divinise them.
The Savitri book has a message to the aimless and issueless circling human race to be conscious of the issue and aim of Savitri within, who must accumulate Soul Force in order to confront and wrestle endlessly with the riddle of human birth and the shadow of negative energies till the last breath and to trace a path of immortality. Her Soul’s issue is to change the human destiny through Yogic discipline, initially by the movement of ascending and descending Consciousness and finally to reach an apex Consciousness of world destiny where all is won by the dynamization of Supreme Mother Consciousness or all is lost for man by non-dynamization of static Witness Supreme Consciousness.
The most difficult task for a Sadhak is the extreme accumulation of the ‘Spirit’s bare and absolute potencies’ (Savitri-57) to become mightier than all the forces of the material and vital world and wrestles with Matter to meet and confront victoriously dark Inconscient forces of naked Hell, compel active dynamic unification of cosmic Nature and ‘last and mightiest transformation’ (Savitri-318) of mundane surface Nature. Then he emerges as Universalised individual Soul Centre with a liberated immobile Soul and transformed mobile Nature.
"Whoever is too great must lonely live.
Adored he walks in mighty solitude;
Vain is his labour to create his kind,
His only comrade is the Strength within." Savitri-368
When a high Soul takes birth on earth, it becomes difficult for him to find an equal Soul, who can help him in accomplishing his Divine Mission of fourfold Divine union. Till the arrival of an equal companion or till the finding of a complementary Soul, he must live alone with his Psychic Being and must be isolated from any inferior human association. The desperate effort made to create, nurture and build an equal Soul is identified here as a waste of time.
Savitri is a representative symbol of Incarnation and myriad Instruments and Emanations, always present close to earth’s atmosphere with the single mission of divinising the clay. The above verse proposes the Divine’s Yantras, Vibhutis and Avataras, that they should not squander their time in building Soul of their own kind but to utilise time to accumulate Spiritual energy and canalise this Transcendent Force to earth and men. They will learn the lesson to depend on their own Spiritual energy rather than on collective force. In the long run, humanity will be prepared to divinise themselves and all the Divine opulence will be given to them.)
“Earthly realisations easily take on a great importance in our eyes, for they are proportionate to our external being with this limited form which makes us men. But what is an earthly realisation beside Thee, before Thee? However perfect, complete, divine it may be, it is nothing but an indiscernible moment in Thy eternity; and the results obtained by it, however powerful and marvellous they may be, are nothing but an imperceptible atom in the infinite march to Thee. This is what Thy workers must never forget, otherwise they will become unfit to serve Thee.”
The Mother
Prayers And Meditations-July-17/1914
"All must be done for the Divine; all must be directed towards the Divine. Nothing must be attempted for ourselves as a separate existence; nothing done for others, whether neighbours, friends, family, country or mankind or other creatures merely because they are connected with our personal life and thought and sentiment or because the ego takes a preferential interest in their welfare. In this way of doing and seeing all works and all life become only a daily dynamic worship and service of the Divine in the unbounded temple of his own vast cosmic existence. Life becomes more and more the sacrifice of the eternal in the individual constantly self-offered to the eternal Transcendence."
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga-113
“Then there were the few—the rare individuals— who are ready to make the necessary effort to prepare themselves for the transformation and to attract the new forces, try to adapt matter, seek the means of expression and so forth. Those are ready for Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga. They are very few. There are even those who have the sense of sacrifice and are ready have a hard and difficult life, as long as it leads them or helps them towards this future transformation. But they should not, they should in no way try to influence others and make them share their own effort: that would be quite unjust – not only unjust, but extremely clumsy because it would alter the universal – or at least terrestrial – rhythm and movement, and instead of helping, it would cause conflicts and result in chaos.”
The Mother
The Mother's Agenda/27th November, 1965
This website partly fulfills the instruction issued in Sri Aurobindo’s principal Teachings, The Synthesis of Yoga that a Sadhaka of integral Yoga must be accountable for his Sadhana to the Self, World and Divine. The quality of an individual and an institution is measured by the degree of Truth, Purity and Knowledge they have worked out from a Transcendent Source. An individual (or an institution) is weighed by the accumulation of the quantum of overhead Divine Will, Divine Wisdom and Divine Love, that has descended to his purified vessel and that he will carry as Soul Force in successive births. The Most conscious individual prepares himself to become a channel through which an incalculable amount of Divine Force, Love, Delight, Wisdom and Beauty rushes into the earth’s atmosphere. Thus he contributes to the enrichment of the present earth’s existence, sarvabhuta hiteratah, and uplifts the earth's obscure Fate. His all-embracing universal Divine Love is independent of all outer circumstances, and expression and he needs no external support, bahya avalambana, to meet Divine's single touch in the world's intimate contacts but is wholly dependent on inner aid, antara avalambana, of faith, sincerity and surrender. His transcendent Divine Love is a stranger to all human relations and this Divine Love labours in the depths of dark Inconscient and exults on the heights of Sachchidananda Consciousness and shall remake this naked hardest material world. (Refer: CWSA-24/The Synthesis of Yoga-631, Savitri-476, 592)
"Therefore, besides the great solitaries who have sought and attained their self-liberation, we have the great spiritual teachers who have also liberated others and, supreme of all, the great dynamic souls who, feeling themselves stronger in the might of the Spirit than all the forces of the material life banded together, have thrown themselves upon the world, grappled with it in a loving wrestle and striven to compel its consent to its own transfiguration." (Refer: CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga-27)