An Avatar or Vibhuti have the knowledge that is necessary for their work, they need not have more. There was absolutely no reason why Buddha should know what was going on in Rome. An Avatar even does not manifest all the Divine omniscience and omnipotence; he has not come for any such unnecessary display; all that is behind him but not in the front of his consciousness. As for the Vibhuti, the Vibhuti need not even know that he is a power of the Divine. Some Vibhutis like Julius Caesar for in¬stance have been atheists. Buddha himself did not believe in a personal God, only in some impersonal and indescribable Permanent.

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Avatarhood would have little meaning if it were not connected with the evolution. The Hindu procession of the ten Avatars is itself, as it were, a parable of evolution. First the Fish Avatar, then the amphibious animal between land and water, then the land animal, then the Man-Lion Avatar, bridging man and animal, then man as dwarf, small and undeveloped and physical but containing in himself the godhead and taking possession of existence, then the rajasic, sattwic, nirguna Avatars, leading the human development from the vital rajasic to the sattwic mental man and again the overmental superman. Krishna, Buddha and Kalki depict the last three stages, the stages of the spiritual development—Krishna opens the possibility of overmind, Buddha tries to shoot beyond to the supreme liberation but that liberation is still negative, not returning upon earth to complete positively the evolution; Kalki is to correct this by bringing the Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroying the opposing Asura forces. The progression is striking and unmistakable.

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Fifty million years ago the Indian sub-continent collided with the enormous Eurasian continent with a velocity of about 20 cm/year. With such a high velocity India was the fastest of the former parts of Gondwanaland, according to a report by a team of scientists from the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ, Germany's National Lab for Geosciences) and the National Geophysical Research Institute, India, in the 18th October 2007 edition of Nature. Due to this collision at such high velocities the largest mountain belt on Earth, the Himalayas, was formed, as was the massive Tibetan plateau.

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If we wish to see auro-biographical account in the ancient tale of Savitri as narrated by Sri Aurobindo in his epic, then there should not be any difficulty in associating the Mother with Savitri and Sri Aurobindo with Aswapati himself. This is true not only in the sense of its legendary bearings, but also in terms of its symbolic contents. The one-to-one correspondence that appears in the first is enlarged in its spiritual context by the other. It is the great visionary power of the legend that luminously supports the possibilities of the symbol in its revelatory vividness. In a certain sense they actually enrich each other. This also means that the trifling comment in a recent book, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo published by the Columbia University Press, should be dismissed as something coming from the Perverse Human who has no entry into the occult-spiritual domains. It says that Savitri the magnum opus is a “fictional creation” and has nothing to do with the yogi-poet’s life-story; or else it is not a dependable source-book for the strict purposes of writing a biography. Not recognizing this PH-factor there is also the Ridiculous Human that enthusiastically applauds such a shallow brainy product. It goes even to the extent of examining and correcting the published text without recognizing its spiritual style and form and content, its source of inspiration and the knowledge it embodies. It is as if we have here a justification for the perverse and ridiculous of the human that we can be. That is also its dark persona, and the sooner we shed it off the better it is for us. But let us look into Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri which indeed is the best means to discard it. The birth of Savitri means the birth of a new world. This she brings about by meeting the luminous Presence that is there behind Death and by obtaining the boon of divine life upon earth.

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