Aswapati in his exploration of the cosmic development sees the transcendental Spirit concealed in the Inconscience; but then that involved mighty Spirit is also making a tentative move to discover itself, to slowly emerge out of the depth of that Darkness, manifest itself by the process of Evolution. But how at all did the whole process begin? how was it set into motion? The Mother narrates it in the form of a story, the Story of Creation. She says essentially that there were first four emanations of the Supreme, and these emanations in their movement, in the freedom they had, went far away from the Source from which they had come; eventually they cut off the connection from their Origin. As a result of this separation they entered into Darkness. So Consciousness became Inconscience, Bliss became Suffering, Truth became Falsehood, and Life turned into Death. The moment the Supreme saw this Horror due to Separation, he plunged into it as Love. Love is therefore the first Avatar of the Supreme, the eternal Avatar. It is then by the great avataric work that this inconscient creation can be linked up with the Origin. That linking up is Evolution. Connecting this creation with the Origin is indeed the new manifestation for which the whole travail was borne.

The four Asuric Beings are now standing as Guards at the Gate of the utter Void, the Abyss of Inconscience. In The Life Divine Sri Aurobindo explains these occult-metaphysical aspects as follows: “The complete separation can take place only when the stage of Inconscience has been reached and our world of manifold Ignorance arises out of that tenebrous matrix. ... Existence plunging into an apparent Non-Existence, Consciousness into an apparent Inconscience, Delight of existence into a vast cosmic insensibility are the first result of the fall and, in the return from it by a struggling fragmentary experience, the rendering of Consciousness into the dual terms of truth and falsehood, knowledge and error, of Existence into the dual terms of life and death, of Delight of existence into the dual terms of pain and pleasure are the necessary process of the labour of self-discovery. A pure experience of Truth, Knowledge, Delight, imperishable existence would here be itself a contradiction of the truth of things. ... Still, because the Non-Existence is a concealed Existence, the Inconscience a concealed Consciousness, the insensibility a masked and dormant Ananda, these secret realities must emerge.” The present passage from Savitri describes the whole sequence in luminous details adding much to the nuances of the cosmic-transcendental working.

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