Based on the story of creation as narrated by the Mother, we can in the following list the stages through which it happened: the Supreme’s wish to objectivise himself; emanation of four beings to start the universal development; their separation from the Origin in the joy and freedom they had; the result is the world as presently is; the creative Force, which had emanated these four Beings, is stunned on seeing what had happened; appalled, she turns to the Supreme and prays for the remedy; a command is given to her to precipitate her Consciousness into this Inconscience, her Love into this suffering, her Truth into this falsehood, and she does it. That is the great sacrifice she has made, the Holocaust of the Divine Mother, of the creative Force. But now in the evolutionary sequel she also comes repeatedly as the incarnate power—because there is the Will for Manifestation behind this Separation. This incarnation of the Consciousness-Force in the realm of Death is her passing through “the portals of the birth that is a death.” This also means that, such incarnations are different from the appearance of the Four Powers of the Consciousness-Force in the cosmic operation. While these Powers are typal, incarnations in Death’s realm belong to the evolutionary, one connected with the universal, other with the earth.   more »

…As far as the Integral Yoga is concerned, we have to make absolutely certain that there is a call for the spiritual life as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo. If this is not followed even while proclaiming as a practitioner of this self-chosen discipline, not imposed by anyone on anybody, then it is immaterial whether we do this or we do that, whether we call it Spirituality, or Integral Yoga, or Religion and Faith, or the Path of Reason and Rationality, and what not. In fact none of them will have the merit to satisfy the soul’s deeper urge seeking the truth within us, and it working and manifesting in us, and everywhere, and all around. If our concern is this single objective, of the dynamic manifestation of the truth, of the transforming light and power and joy entering into us and operating in every respect in us, then all talk about rationality, about faith in science and reason, faith in logic, blind faith, seeing faith—seeing faith is an extremely rare commodity—pale into insignificance. We go to a spiritually accomplished person to seek his help in this regard, his spiritual help to make spiritual progress, and we endeavour to follow it if we are centrally alert to its assuring methodology and its demands, truthful to our own earnest and sincerest yearning…   more »