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Introduction Physical Transformation—The Early Beginnings
getting the higher, the supramental siddhi in the substance of the body itself.
The body was not ready to hold the charge of luminous immortality in it. It did not possess the necessary spiritual merit for this purpose: it was still an unbaked vessel, atapta tanu, a pot fashioned from unprepared clay; another kind of tapasya was needed to overcome the difficulty. The cells of the body had not awakened yet to the reality that is seated deep within them.
What the Supramental will do, the mind cannot foresee or lay down. The mind is Ignorance seeking for the Truth, the Supramental by its very definition is the Truth-Consciousness: Truth in possession of itself and fulfilling itself by its own power.
Which God would willingly come down and accept this challenge, consent to pass through the portals of the birth that is a death? Only the Divine himself—the Avatar. He comes and accepts the mortal’s lot.
The concern was not with the beatitude of heaven but with the circumstance that is present in this ignorant world, down below in this mud.
But then, consequently, with the pressure from above the revolt of the subconscient from below also became fiercer. And there was the real danger that if the Godhead should awake too soon, that awakening might lead to total destruction, the support, ādhāra, not being there ready.
The reality of the falsehood in its operational aspects and in its harsh darkish details had to be admitted, had to be fully cognized in pragmatism of the entire spiritual endeavour.
In the filth and mire was kindled a fire, a new fire which has no smoky flames but which turns itself into an ever-growing blaze, into undying glory of the heavenly sun. The gain may not be immediately visible, but its occult print is already there for the eye of the finer vision to see. This definite gain is consolidated by giving to it a subtle-luminous body of the expressive Word; this is something wonderful, because the body of the Word is not only indestructible; it is a radiant centre from which spread dynamic contents it holds.
Here a unique thing has happened in the annals of spiritual time. It is now expected that, one day, this shall bring the “divine whole” to the transformed earth.
AI Summary
Savitri and the Yoga of the Cells by Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, and RY Deshpande presents key insights from the Yoga tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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