Aswapati wants to know the cause of failure of all the past attempts and efforts of humanity. For this he must go to the very root of things, feel the poison sting of that hides in the Dark Abyss.
At the Feet of The Mother
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Who are Aswapati and Savitri? Before proceeding further we take a look at Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and their Avataric personality and work.
If knowledge is taken as light and work as path, then bhakti is the key to the divine doors. The talk brings us the significance, importance and the way to achieve it, with numerous examples.
This greater life is a transitional zone, an intermediary space through which the soul must travel for its further ascension.
Ascending further Aswapati encounters the higher vital worlds that serve as an intermediary link between the lower vital and the mental worlds.
The work of a karma yogi is a work from the highest state of his consciousness without being troubled by the consequences or the outcome. Sri Aurobindo himself has shown the path of perfect karma yoga in several ways.
There is in us a spark of God that takes in and grows through all experiences, however dark they may seem, for its growth towards God and Light.
The movements of lower nature are only a provisional scheme, a spring board for a still higher ascent of life.
Behind many accepted social or religious truths of human life we can see a spiritual truth. When these truths are followed without proper knowledge or out of fear, they hardly help in the growth of a person, because growth comes with the growth of the state of consciousness.