Now Aswapati sails beyond the last limits of lower nature that ties us down. Thus we see the beginnings of a spiritual transformation under the increasing pressure of higher states of Consciousness.
At the Feet of The Mother
Book One: The Book of Beginnings
When the human consciousness is stilled and turned upwards in a one-pointed aspiration, when the soul ascends to high luminous regions of the Spirit, when the descent of the greater Truth-Consciousness begins to remould us, then the Superman held within the folds of human consciousness begins to emerge into the world-play.
Even as Aswapati continues his ascension further, he is greeted by an unexpected movement from Above. The Transcendent towards whom he is aspiring not only receives him but comes down and embraces him. It is the yoga of Supramental descent that begins to enter into the yoga of Ascension.
A new journey now begins for Aswapati. He aspires to go further where none has dared to visit while still in the flesh. He glimpsed the Splendours in the House of the Spirit from afar, but now he wants to come in direct contact with the sun itself and not through the rays.
What follows now is a new journey for seer and yogi Aswapati, a journey towards the shoreless Infinite. It is this new adventure that will eventually bring down and establish the New Consciousness upon Earth.
Sri Aurobindo is a spiritual realist. On the one hand he is fully aware of the present state of imperfection that we live in. On the other hand he is also aware of the deeper and higher possibilities. That is why his words always comfort and soothe, give us hope and courage.
Why cannot the human body, this house of clay, be illumined with the Divine Light that dwells within us? Such is the aspiration that Aswapati implants upon earth. He aspires to bring down the greater world, the Glory he has glimpsed, here upon earth.
We see here Sri Aurobindo laying down the foundations of the Supramental Yoga that grants to the seeking soul the grand reconciliation between God and World, Soul and Nature, Spirit and Matter.
What is going to be revealed to us is the great Secret of a progressive manifestation of the Divine in man.