In this respect, you say somewhere that the gods too must incarnate to become fully conscious.Yes, because.... How is this possible? Aren't the gods already fully conscious?!No, they have no psychic being, so that whole side of life does not exist for them. In all the traditions here in India (and in other countries and other religions as well), most of the time these gods behave impossibly! This is simply because they have no psychic being. The psychic being is the one thing belonging specifically to terrestrial life; it has been given as a grace ... to repair, to undo what had been done. page 297 , Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 2nd Aug. 1961. |
Yes, but what about the minor gods? You often speak of a "little Kali" or a "little Durga"; are these beings beneficent?Ah, they aren't from the vital at all! Not at all! They are manifestations of Overmind [[In Sri Aurobindo's terminology, the Overmind represents the highest level of the mind, the world of the gods and origin of all the revelations and highest artistic creations - the world that has ruled mental man till now. ]] beings, projected into the vital world for a specific action. But they aren't vital beings: they have an Origin, they are still linked to a being from another world. Oh, no, not at all! page 119 , Mother's Agenda , volume 3 , 11th March 1962 |
All that can be asked is how do you see the soul? To see the soul, you must yourself know your own soul.Yes, to be in contact with the soul, that is to say, with the psychic being, you must carry in yourself a psychic being, and only men - the men of evolution, those issued from the terrestrial creation - possess a psychic being. All those gods are without a psychic being, it's only by coming down, by uniting with the psychic being of a man that they can have one, but they themselves don't have one. page 19 , Mother's Agenda , volume 6 , 12th Jan - 1965 |