Aswapati is a protagonist of God’s work in the world. There is nothing that he needs for himself, desire-free he carrying the world’s desire with him; his yoga-tapasya has been for the evolutionary soul of the earth, that it becomes a manifesting instrument in the splendour of God himself. In the complete freedom of his soul and his spirit, in the transcendental freedom untouched by ignorance and inconscience, Aswapati exercises his freewill which could be different from the Freewill with other possibilities, Possibilities in the rhythms of the manifesting Truth. That is the greatness, the uniqueness of his yoga-tapasya. In it he is not asking the imperfect fruit, the partial prize, but makes himself bold to tell the supreme Savitri herself that Man is not the crown of her creation, that a better and greater being must follow him and change this transient and sorrowful mortal existence, bring to it felicitous divinity. There has to be immortality on earth with its gleaming infinities governing and unfolding the entire conduct in the life of the Spirit. A new world in the Supramental is already poised for birth, and it is ready to descend upon earth, a task which the divine Savitri alone can accomplish. He persuades her to take mortal birth, and she obliges.

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The cells are becoming conscious and beginning to ask these questions—if there is any importance to the body in this creation, if it is useful in any sense. Not only do they stand back and at themselves in action; they begin to wonder how this is going to be, they aspire. There has to be something other than they just supporting some activity, there has to be a meaning for their being in existence. That awareness itself is the beginning of their receptivity, “a silent opening allowing the thing to enter; and a very subtle perception of a way of being that would be luminous, harmonious.” Here could be the perception of true Matter. In it there is at once subtleness and penetrability, suppleness in the forms, that which must replace the physical ego. All the habits are in this way undone. If this should mean dissolution, there is willingness to accept it. “Whatever happens, we will see,”—the cells are ready, ready for the great adventure. “How will we be—how will we be? How...” Yes, the cells saying, “How should we be? How will we be?”... It is interesting, says the Mother.

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