The New Research

The Agenda of Sri Matriniketan Ashram Research:

 

The First Objective of Research: It will include in its scope the richly varied objective Material and subjective Spiritual experience, reconcile them in the beyond intellect Cosmic  Self through the movement of vertical Consciousness and make the future opulent with all that is the best in the past and present. Thus the following promise is concentrated:

"Content abide not with one conquered realm;

Adventure all to make the whole world thine,

To break into greater kingdoms turn thy force." Savitri-536

 

The Second Objective of Research: It will accumulate in itself all that is the most affirmative and the completest invisible energies and pour them out on the surrounding by an intense Aspiration, a Master Action and a King Idea so that one mighty Deed in the Occult plane can change the whole course of world events and external things.

"A prayer, a master act, a king idea

Can link man’s strength to a transcendent Force.

Then miracle is made the common rule,

One mighty deed can change the course of things; 

A lonely thought becomes omnipotent." Savitri-20

"Knows that one high step might enfranchise all" Savitri-371

 

The Third Objective of Research:  The unending opulence of the Matter and Spirit cannot be exhausted by all the Saints, Seers and Scientists of all Time and the continuous uncovering and working out of Their unending secrets, endless truths and timeless mystery are the constant preoccupations of subjective Research.

"He (Avatar) must call light into its dark abysms,

Else never can Truth conquer Matter’s sleep

And all earth look into the eyes of God.

All things obscure his knowledge must relume,

All things perverse his power must unknot:

He must pass to the other shore of falsehood’s sea,

He must enter the world’s dark to bring there light.

The heart of evil must be bared to his eyes,

He must learn its cosmic dark necessity,

Its right and its dire roots in Nature’s soil." Savitri-450

 

The Fourth Objective of Research: It will strive to provide the utmost fulfillment and perfection of objective and subjective living by entry into Supraphysical experience which lies behind our gross physical, vital and mental living and humanity will be liberated from all subjection of life to the multiplication of new wants, exaggeration of ambitious activities and an aggressive expansion of the collective ego. Thus life can become 'a marvellous journey of the spirit.' (Savitri-301) 

"In the kingdom of the Spirit’s power and light,

As if one who arrived out of infinity’s womb

He came new-born, infant and limitless 

And grew in the wisdom of the timeless Child;

He was a vast that soon became a Sun." Savitri-301

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Serving Humanity:

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The Scope of helping humanity: “Patriotism, cosmopolitanism, service of society, collectivism, humanitarianism, the ideal or religion of humanity are admirable aids towards our escape from our primary condition of individual, family, social, national egoism into a secondary stage in which the individual realises, as far as it can be done on the intellectual, moral and emotional level, —on that level he cannot do it entirely in the right and perfect way, the way of the integral truth of his being, — the oneness of his existence with the existence of other beings. But the thought of the Gita reaches beyond to a tertiary condition of our developing self-consciousness towards which the secondary is only a partial stage of advance.” Sri Aurobindo/CWSA-19/Essays on the Gita/p-136

 

The Necessity of Leadership: “The best, the individuals who are in advance of the general line and above the general level of the collectivity, are the natural leaders of mankind, for it is they who can point to the race both the way they must follow and the standard or ideal they have to keep to or to attain. But the divinised man is the Best in no ordinary sense of the word and his influence, his example must have a power which that of no ordinarily superior man can exercise.”  Sri Aurobindo/CWSA-19/Essays on the Gita/p-138

 

The Necessity of Spiritual Leadership: “This too the divinised man becomes in the measure of his attainment, impersonal in his personality, unbound by quality or action even when maintaining the most personal and intimate relations with men, unbound by any dharma even when following in appearance this or that dharma. Neither the dynamism of the kinetic man nor the actionless light of the ascetic or quietist, neither the vehement personality of the man of action nor the indifferent impersonality of the philosophic sage is the complete divine ideal. These are the two conflicting standards of the man of this world and the ascetic or the quietist philosopher, one immersed in the action of the Kshara, the other striving to dwell entirely in the peace of the Akshara; but the complete divine ideal proceeds from the nature of the Purushottama which transcends this conflict and reconciles all divine possibilities.” Sri Aurobindo/CWSA-19/Essays on the Gita/p-141

 

The Necessity of Supramental Leadership: “The supramental man on the contrary will think more with the universal mind or even may rise above it, and his individuality will rather be a vessel of radiation and communication to which the universal thought and knowledge of the Spirit will converge than a centre. The mental man thinks and acts in a radius determined by the smallness or largeness of his mentality and of its experience. The range of the supramental man will be all the earth and all that lies behind it on other planes of existence...Ordinarily the supramental knowledge will be organised first and with the most ease in the processes of pure thought and knowledge, jnana, because here the human mind has already the upward tendency and is the most free. Next and with less ease it will be organised in the processes of applied thought and knowledge because there the mind of man is at once most active and most bound and wedded to its inferior methods. The last and most difficult conquest, because this is now to his mind a field of conjecture or a blank, will be the knowledge of the three times, trikaladrsti.” Sri Aurobindo/CWSA/24/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-837, 839

 

The Permanent Help: “Someone had written to (the) Mother, “I want my money to be used exclusively to conquer the causes of our sufferings and misery.” (The) Mother had replied, “That is what we are working towards here, but not in the artificial way of the philanthropists, who only deal with the outward effects. We want to eliminate forever the CAUSE of suffering, by divinizing matter through integral transformation.” The Mother's Agenda/10th April-1968. The permanent help and panacea of all problems of existence is possible through a triple reversal of Consciousness and inner change of Nature. All of the issues of humanity can be resolved by the permanent elevation of individual and collective Consciousness through Integral Evolution and Supramental Influence initially dynamised through a few individuals (A few can climb to an unperishing sun, (Savitri-689)) and finally spreads to elevate the general Consciousness of the race (His gates to the world were swept with seas of light. (Savitri-236)).

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The Agenda of Integral Tantra Yoga:

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First Agenda: Integral Yoga begins with the method of Vedanta to arrive at the aims of Tantra. In the integral Yoga Psychical experience, especially of the kind associated with what is often called occultism and savours of the miraculous, should be altogether subordinated to Spiritual truth and wait upon that for its own interpretation, illumination and sanction.

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The Second Agenda: In Vedantic method the Spirit is all important means of arriving at the Shakti. In Tantric method the Shakti is the all important means of arriving at the Spirit.

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The Third Agenda: Integral Tantra Yoga of Knowledge, Dakshina Marga begins with the descent of fragments of Truth Supreme. Integral Tantra Yoga of Love, Vama Marga begins with the descent of fragments of Supreme Love.

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The Fourth Agenda: Integral Yoga is a combination of Vedantic Sacrifice ‘the Brahman is offered to the Brhaman by the Brhaman’ (The Gita-3.24) or 'Living for me, by me, in me they shall live' (Savitri-699) and Vedic or Tantric Sacrifice ‘the Shakti is offered to the Shakti by the Shakti’.

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The Root Formula of Integral Yoga:

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The Root Formula One: All the problems of existence can be resolved by the discovery of the Inconscient Self.

“For the key is hid and by the Inconscient kept;

The secret God beneath the threshold dwells.” Savitri-68

 

The Root Formula Two: Desire is identified as the 'Keyword' and root problem that takes shelter in the Inconscient sheath.

“Then lest a human cry should spoil the Truth

He tore desire up from its bleeding roots

And offered to the gods the vacant place.

Thus could he bear the touch immaculate.

A last and mightiest transformation came.

His soul was all in front like a great sea

Flooding the mind and body with its waves;

His being, spread to embrace the universe,

United the within and the without

To make of life a cosmic harmony,

An empire of the immanent Divine.” Savitri-318

 

The Root Formula Three: Inconscient Self can be opened by massive Supramental Intervention.

“This ever she meant since the first dawn of life,

This constant will she covered with her sport,

To evoke a Person in the impersonal Void,

With the Truth-Light strike earth’s massive roots of trance,

Wake a dumb self in the inconscient depths

And raise a lost Power from its python sleep

That the eyes of the Timeless might look out from Time

And the world manifest the unveiled Divine.” Savitri-72-73,

“As when a searchlight stabs the Night’s blind breast

And dwellings and trees and figures of men appear

As if revealed to an eye in Nothingness,

All lurking things were torn out of their veils

And held up in his vision’s sun-white blaze.” Savitri-151,

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The Root Formula Four:  All the problems of existence can be resolved by the intervention of Divine Force from above the head and below the feet…. Or it can be also resolved by the intervention of dynamic Spirit from within the heart, below the feet, around the world and above the head.

“Our life is entrenched between two rivers of Light,

We have turned space into a gulf of peace

And made the body a Capitol of bliss.” Savitri-531

“It (dynamic Spirit) is within, below, without, above.” Savitri-98

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The Main Formula (Maha Mantra) of Integral Yoga: 

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The First Formula: All Life is Yoga. (Maha Mantra)

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The Second Formula: All Yoga is a compression of one’s Evolution by all possible ways of union with the Divine.

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The Third Formula: All Evolution is the awakener of higher states of Consciousness.

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The Fourth formula: All Consciousness is one but in action, it involves in many-fold concentrated Effort and spontaneous movement of Shakti to realize every possible line of Spiritual experience.

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The Fifth Formula: All Effort is the synthesis of all the wide and supple Methods.

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The Sixth Formula: All the method is the synthesis of central Truth of self-discipline.

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The Seventh Formula: The practice of all self-discipline leads to continuous union with the Self.

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The Eighth Formula: All Dispensable self-disciplines are termed as Psycho-physical methods, which mean to pursue inner development with the help of outer aid, support.

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The Ninth Formula: All Indispensable self-disciplines are termed as Psychic, Spiritual and Supramental methods which mean to pursue inner development without the support of any outer aid.

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The Tenth Formula: All Dispensable self-disciplines are used to subordinate all Indispensable self-disciplines, and its indispensability is felt after the Spiritual foundation is established on a secure basis.

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The Main Frame of Integral Yoga:

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The Three Basic Requisites: are of (1) unflinching patience, (2) absolute courage and (3) colossal faith.

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The Three Basic Inward Concentrations: are (1) of exclusive concentration of the one object worthy of pursuit, (2) contemplation and (3) silencing of mind.

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​The Three Central secrets: are of entire consecration, constant inward remembrance of one central liberating knowledge and renounce all the inner support of central egoism.

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The Three Central Dynamic Processes: are that of development of true psychic being, sublimation of human into Divine Love and elevation of mental consciousness into spiritual and Supramental plane.

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The Three Central Methods: of Integral Yoga are that of  gradually intensive and purposeful working of divine force, which subsequently compels all Nature to undergo a Divine change and the Divine Power uses all life as means of world transformation.

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The Three Central Vedantic Principles of Integral Yoga: are derived from the three Vedantic method of knowledge; it is either knowledge in the will working out through action or knowledge in the intellect through discernment or knowledge of the heart expressed in love and faith.

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The Three Central Vedic Principles of Integral Yoga: are the perfection of the body by the Psycho-physical method of Hathayoga; the perfection of the mind and Psychic being by disciplining of mind through Rajayoga and the transformation of Nature by synthetic Yoga of Tantra. Integral Yoga does not propose the ceaseless practice of Psycho-physical Sciences of  Hathayoga and Tantra and ceaseless practice of Psychic Science of Rajayoga, ‘but their methods can either altogether be dispensed with or used only for a preliminary or else a casual assistance.’ In integral Yoga the utility of Psycho-physical Science is felt after Spiritual foundation is established through Karma, Jnana and Bhakti Yoga.

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The Three Central Inner Revolutions: are that of the abolition of desire, making life an instrument and the disappearance of ego.

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The Three Basic or Fundamental Realisations: are that of (1) experience of Timeless, Spaceless and Silent Brahman, (2) of dissolution of self and world in the Unknowable, --Moksha, Nirvana and (3) the Source of Being and its relation with Becoming which builds a strong foundation of integral Yoga.

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The Three Inner or Central Intuitions: These are indispensable for the perfection of Spiritual being acting directly on earth Nature; they are the awareness of witness Purusha, sakhi, who watches the action of Nature, to give them new directions, refinement and extension related with subtle and flexible creation, and an inner awareness of his Spiritual and Supramental being who are master of his Nature. Here Intuition is at once (1) witness, sakhi, (2) source of consent, anumanta, and (3) almighty Lord of the Nature, Maheswara.

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The Three Central Objects of Integral Yoga: The object of integral Yoga must be accepted wholly by those who follow it and they are the Divinity in one Self, total discovery of the Divinity in the world and total discovery of the dynamism of some transcendent Eternal.

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From Puri to Pondicherry:

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The Preliminary Teaching: The stages through which the Gita has developed its preliminary teachings are that firstly, it spoke of the destruction of desire and attachment and conquest of senses by stilling the mind; secondly of equality and peace; thirdly of passionless, impersonal and sacrificial action and recognition of the Supreme as the doer of all work; fourthly of inner renunciation of desire and ego preferable to the outer renunciation of life and action; fifthly, the doctrine of Avatara and the Divine birth.

 

The Higher Teaching: The Gita’s higher teachings are that of Divine work by rising above the gunas; secondly, besides its earlier declaration that Knowledge is greater than Works, Bhakti is considered the greatest element in Yoga; thirdly the relation between Works, Knowledge and Divine Love and their synthesis as means of supreme realisation; fourthly, the vision of Universal Purusha, which ‘can be seen, known, entered into only by that Bhakti which regards, adores and loves Me alone in all things’; fifthly, the inter-relation between the multiple Soul, Kshara, immutable Self, Akshara, and the Supreme Self, Purushottama who is the Master of Works, Knowledge and Love; sixthly, Sraddha, faith, as an important aid for the manifestation of Para Prakriti.

 

The Highest Teaching: The most secret teaching of the Gita is the Knowledge of the whole Godhead, samagram mam, which can be gained by four gradations of exclusive knowledge attended with five gradations of all-inclusive knowledge, by knowing which will leave nothing yet to be known.

 

The Highest Teaching hinted but not developed: It has been hinted constantly in myriad terms of Vasudevah sarvamiti, the Godhead is all that is the universe and all that is in the universe, Prakritm mamikam, into My Divine nature, Prakritim me param, My supreme nature, Prakritim swam, My own nature, Prakritir jiva-bhuta, Divine Nature which has become the jiva, Madbhavam agatah, have arrived at My nature of being, daivi prakriti, (The Gita-9.13) Divine nature and Param bhavam, Supreme nature or the ultimate becoming, sadharmyam agatah, those who have become of like nature and law of being with the Divine; but these terminologies were nowhere explained entirely. These are left as clues for the greatest Spiritual developments, which can be resolved fully through ascending advance of spiritual experience.

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The Seven Fold Self Ignorance:

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1: Original Ignorance: Not knowing the origin, Source of our existence, the Supramental Self or extending ahead to Bliss Self.

 

2: Cosmic Ignorance: Not knowing the immobile and immutable Self, the Spiritual Self.

 

3: Egoistic Ignorance: Not knowing the Universal Self, the Cosmic Self.

 

4: Temporal Ignorance: Not knowing the Psychic Being.

 

5: Psychological Ignorance: Not knowing the subliminal Self which constitutes our true physical being, true vital being and true mental being.

 

6: Constitutional Ignorance: Not knowing the Subconscient Self, Inconscient Self and their influence on the waking Self.

 

7: Practical Ignorance: Not knowing the right relation of the surface physical, vital and mental Nature with the above ten Selves.  To understand practical Ignorance we can concentrate on the following lines of Savitri:

"Our outward happenings have their seed within,” Savitri-52

“This earth is not alone our teacher and nurse;

The powers of all the worlds have entrance here.” Savitri-153

“In a contrary balance to earth’s truth of things

The gross weighs less, the subtle counts for more;

On inner values hangs the outer plan.” Savitri-186

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An Inspiration from Sri Aurobindo's Writings:

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1: All of Sri Aurobindo’s writings from the early days of Baroda to the last days of Pondicherry are identified as the accumulation of overhead descended knowledge.

 

2: Out of them The Synthesis of Yoga, The Life Divine, The Mother and Savitri are identified as high-concentration approved writings or the best standard available to the race to pursue integral Yoga.

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3: All his other writings are extremely helpful to those who are entirely conscious of the whole aim and the final Spiritual destination. They will be able to trace the sequential change of His world vision and world action with the growth and expansion of His Divine Consciousness.

 

4: The Mother confirmed, “Thus, Sri Aurobindo represented a totality of comprehension and knowledge and power; and every one of his books is at once a symbol and a representation. Every one of his books contains symbolically, potentially, what is in him. Therefore, if you concentrate on the book, you can, through the book, go back to the source. And even, by passing through the book, you will be able to receive much more than what is just in the book.” TMCW-8/Questions and Answers-1956/p-163,

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Sri Aurobindo's Hope on Woman:

           “I am beginning to understand why Sri Aurobindo always said it was woman  that could build a bridge between the two. I am beginning to understand. One day, I will explain. I am beginning to understand. Sri Aurobindo used to say: it is woman that can build a bridge between the old world and the supramental world. Now I understand.”

The Mother

The Mother’s Agenda-26.04.1972

            “After I knew that God was a woman, I learned some-thing from far-off about love; but it was only when I became a woman and served my Master and Paramour that I knew love utterly.”

Sri Aurobindo

TMCW-10/On Thoughts and Aphorisms/p-329

            “God has so arranged life that the world is the soul’s husband; Krishna its divine paramour. We owe a debt of service to the world and are bound to it by a law, a compelling opinion, and a common experience of pain and pleasure, but our heart’s worship and our free and secret joy are for our Lover.”

Sri Aurobindo

TMCW-10/On Thoughts and Aphorisms/p-340

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           Sri Aurobindo had kept great hope on women, in building the future. Their main objective of life is not procreation, or enjoyment of life with men but to accumulate Spiritual energy. The ‘virgin bridals of the dawn’ (Savitri-401) are identified as the future of the Nation and they can keep their mind, life and body untouched and pure to enter union with the Divine in all the ten planes of Consciousness and realise the full delight and perfection of all those planes or ‘virgin who comest perfected by joy.’ (Savitri-424) They are also representative symbols of ‘citizens of that mother state.’ (Savitri-262) Thus Para-prakriti dominated Indian women can dream of the emergence of 'a virgin earth' or 'Heaven’s joys might have been earth’s if earth were pure.' Savitri-123)

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Questions Raised By the Death God in Savitri:

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            Before conquering Death from without, which is an issue of all life, a Sadhak is given the triple task of conquering Death from within (1) by universalisation of Consciousness, (2) by illumining the Subconscient and Inconscient planes and (3) by change of Nature through activation of Sachchidananda Consciousness:

 

The First Task of Conquering Death by Universalisation of Consciousness: This experience will be followed by static Viswarupa Darshana as witnessed by the Arjuna of the Gita (Chapter-10) and dynamic Viswarupa Darshana as witnessed by Death God in Savitri, Book-10, Canto-4.

"A Mother-wisdom works in Nature’s breast

 To pour delight on the heart of toil and want

And press perfection on life’s stumbling powers,

Impose heaven-sentience on the obscure abyss

And make dumb Matter conscious of its God.

Although our fallen minds forget to climb,

Although our human stuff resists or breaks,

She keeps her will that hopes to divinise clay;

Failure cannot repress, defeat o’erthrow;

Time cannot weary her nor the Void subdue,

The ages have not made her passion less;

No victory she admits of Death or Fate." Savitri-353-354

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“In the enormous emptiness of thy mind

Thou shalt see the Eternal’s body in the world,

Know him in every voice heard by thy soul,

In the world’s contacts meet his single touch;

All things shall fold thee into his embrace.

Conquer thy heart’s throbs, let thy heart beat in God:

Thy nature shall be the engine of his works,

Thy voice shall house the mightiness of his Word:

Then shalt thou harbour my force and conquer Death.” Savitri-476

 

The Second Task of illumining the Subconscient and Inconscient planes:

"He (Narad) sang the Inconscient and its secret self, (Discovery of Inconscient Self)

Its power omnipotent knowing not what it does,

All-shaping without will or thought or sense,

Its blind unerring occult mystery,

And darkness yearning towards the eternal Light,

And Love that broods within the dim abyss

And waits the answer of the human heart,

And death that climbs to immortality." Savitri-416

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“O Death, I have triumphed over thee within;

I quiver no more with the assault of grief;

A mighty calmness seated deep within

Has occupied my body and my sense:

It takes the world’s grief and transmutes to strength,

It makes the world’s joy one with the joy of God.

My love eternal sits throned on God’s calm;

For Love must soar beyond the very heavens

And find its secret sense ineffable;

It must change its human ways to ways divine,

Yet keep its sovereignty of earthly bliss.” Savitri-633

 

The Third Task of Permanent Descent of Sachchidananda Consciousness:

"His living cosmic spirit shall enring,

Annulling the decree of death and pain,

Erasing the formulas of the Ignorance,

With the deep meaning of beauty and life’s hid sense,

The being ready for immortality," Savitri-706

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“Even there shall come as a high crown of all

The end of Death, the death of Ignorance.

But first high Truth must set her feet on earth

And man aspire to the Eternal’s light

And all his members feel the Spirit’s touch

And all his life obey an inner Force.

This too shall be; for a new life shall come,

A body of the Superconscient’s truth,

A native field of Supernature’s mights:

It shall make earth’s nescient ground Truth’s colony,

Make even the Ignorance a transparent robe

Through which shall shine the brilliant limbs of Truth

And Truth shall be a sun on Nature’s head

And Truth shall be the guide of Nature’s steps

And Truth shall gaze out of her nether deeps.” Savitri-708

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"The frontiers of the Ignorance shall recede,

More and more souls shall enter into light,

Minds lit, inspired, the occult summoner hear

And lives blaze with a sudden inner flame

And hearts grow enamoured of divine delight

And human wills tune to the divine will,

These separate selves the Spirit’s oneness feel,

These senses of heavenly sense grow capable,

The flesh and nerves of a strange ethereal joy

And mortal bodies of immortality." Savitri-710

 

            Death will exist for him as there are gulfs between multiple planes of intermediate Consciousness. His task in this birth is to bridge as many gulfs as possible through the movement of vertical Consciousness or through a four-fold union with the Divine. When all the gulfs are bridged, then there will be a free flow of the highest energy to the Lowest planes and that is the hour closure to physical immortality. This is a task for him left in All Life to attain. 

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