Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:32:33 -0400
From: William Moss (wmoss108@gwi.net)
To: scienceandspirit@sriaurobindocenter-la.com
Subject: Re: musing on a structural paradox (rod's response II)

Rod wrote:

"…The
deconstruction to be performed here has to separate the oposition
relative cultural causality (dependence) and absolute
spirtual/evolutionary necessity (independence). An atemporal
aperspectival nondual consciousness of a nondual integral reality which
sees life and death as non-contradictory and opens itself to an
emerging Truth-force may be able to leap beyond necessity and causality
and find the something else already present.”


Ok, try this:

In
Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo writes about the Avatar, and the
necessity for Avatarhood. Don't forget that, in the Aurobindonian
world-view, the emergence of the new Consciousness, while involved in,
and prepared to some extent by the development in Matter, is
precipitated by a Descent from the pre-existent inner world or plane
which is the home of that which is to be realized. The Descent of the
Supramental, announced by Mother on February 29, 1956, was not in any
way caused by the circumstantial or developmental stage of the earth,
of Matter. Rather, it was brought about by the concentrated Action of
the two-in-one Avatar.

Yes, the timing of this Action can be
seen to have been such as to take advantage of the most propitious
moment in human [and world] evolution, but that moment itself was the
result of the action of the Avatar, and their vibhutis, over the
centuries and millennia. We know [or think we know], just from hints
and statements by Mother and Sri Aurobindo, that historical figures from
Julius and Augustus Caesar, Hildegard von Bingen, Jeanne d'Arc,
Leonardo, Elizabeth I, Napoleon, etc. etc. were all Divine Operatives
on one level or another — and that's just in the post-Christian,
European tradition; and likely leaves out dozens of anonymous,
behind-the-scenes Workers who lived, worked and died in obscurity
building the Dream.

But primarily, the Avatars:

"This world was not built with random bricks of Chance,
A blind god is not destiny's architect;
A conscious power has drawn the plan of life,
There is a meaning in each curve and line.
It is an architecture high and grand
By many named and nameless masons built
In which unseeing hands obey the Unseen,
And of its master-builders she is one."

[Savitri, pp. 459-60]


The
Avatar, as Sri Aurobindo writes in Essays on the Gita, acts in complete
freedom — a freedom tempered only by the self-imposed rules of the
Creation. But those rules include many hidden clauses and possibilities
that we can only guess at. So even though it may seem that the Avatar
is simply choosing a historical time and place for its Action which has
occurred propitiously, a deeper look shows that this is an event which
has been carefully planned and prepared over ages and eons.

love and light,

-will