Inner Fruit of the Avatar

Inner Fruit of the Avatar's Coming

The inner fruit of the Avatar's coming is gained by those who learn from it the true nature of the divine birth and the divine works and who, growing full of him in their consciousness and taking refuge in him with their whole being, manmāy mām upāśritāḥ, purified by the realising force of their knowledge and delivered from the lower nature, attain to the divine being and divine nature, madbhāvam. The Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in man above this lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He comes as the divine personality which shall fill the consciousness of the human being and replace the limited egoistic personality, so that it shall be liberated out of ego into infinity and universality, out of birth into immortality. He comes as the divine power and love which calls men to itself, so that they may take refuge in that and no longer in the insufficiency of their human wills and the strife of their human fear, wrath and passion, and liberated from all this unquiet and suffering may live in the calm and bliss of the Divine. Nor does it matter essentially in what form and name or putting forward what aspect of the Divine he comes; for in all ways, varying with their nature, men are following the path set to them by the Divine which will in the end lead them to him and the aspect of him which suits their nature is that which they can best follow when he comes to lead them; in whatever way men accept, love and take joy in God, in that way God accepts, loves and takes joy in man.

Sri Aurobindo

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Sources of the Passages Published in this Compilation

Page 1: CWSA Vol. 2, p. 649 (SABCL Vol. 5, p. 615). Page 3: CWSA2: 534 (SABCL 5: 99); CWSA 19; 164 (SABCL 13: 155); CWSA 19:159 (SABCL 13:150); SABCL 26: 451. Page 4: CWM 13: 5, 4, 19, 10, 10. Page 5: CWSA 2: 670 (SABCL 5: 595); CWSA 2: 5-6. Page 6: SABCL 26; 4; CWSA 2; 37 (SABCL 5: 28). Pages 7-10: SA-BW 349-54; Speeches (1993 ed.): 7-8; SA-HLU: 57-63. Pages 11-13: SABCL 26: 98, 50; CWSA 2: 607 (SABCL 5: 138); SABCL 22: 199; CWSA: 2; 608, 622 (SABCL 5: 139, 154); SABCL 26: 77; SA-HLU: 133; SABCL 26: 81; SA-HLU: 147-48. Pages 14-17: CWSA 2: 581 (SABCL 5: 567); SABCL 26; 82-83, 84, 86, 101-02; CWSA 2: 582 (SABCL 5; 568); SABCL 26: 226-27; LOSA: 113-14; SABCL 26: 68; SA-HLU: 282-84. Pages 17-18: CWSA 8: 5-6, 6, 9 (SABCL 2: 6, 6-7, 9). Pages 18-20: SABCL 26; 21; SA-HLU: 328; SA-BW: 202-03; CWSA 6: 874-76, 247. SA-HLU: 300. Pages 21-22: CWSA 2: 603 (SABCL 5: 144); LOSA: 132; SABCL 10: 34; SABCL 26: 55, 430, 57-58, 390. Pages 23-26: Savitri (1994 ed.): 76-79; SABCL 26: 430, 423; Champaklal's Treasures (2008 second ed.): 176; SA-BW: 359-61; SABCL 26: 122, 124-25; CWSA 2:217 (SABCL 5: 62); CWSA 12: 93-94; LOSA: 296; Evening talks with Sri Aurobindo by A.B. Purani, 3rd series, 1st ed.; 1966: p.vi. Pages 27-28: CWSA 2: 642 (SABCL 5; 105); SABCL 25: 48; CWM 13: 63, 37, 37-38, 39; SABCL 26: 456, 459, 455; CWM 13: 32; SABCL 25: 65. Pages 29-31: CW of NKG, Vol.7: 406-408; FN: CWM 13: 63; SABCL 25: 49, 40-41; Champaklal Speaks, p. 334; Photo quote: SABCL 25: 79. Pages 32-34: CWSA 2: 667 (SABCL 5: 603); SABCL 26: 221, 277-78; CWSA 19: 10 (SABCL 13: 8); CWSA 22: 1090-91 (SABCL 19: 1053-55); SA-BW: 366-68; CWSA 36: 285-86 (SABCL 26: 424-25). Pages 35-38: SABCL 26: 144, 143; SABCL 22: 115-16, 98; Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo by A.B. Purani 2nd series p.313; SABCL 26: 464; Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo, 1983 ed.: 142-43; 26: 465, 196, Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo: 79; 26: 153, 165, 136; CWSA 2: 578 (SABCL 5: 563); Savitri: 81. Pages 39-40: CWSA 2: 642-43 (SABCL 5: 105); CWM 13: 109; SABCL 26: 459; CWM 7; 414; SABCL 22: 139; SABCL 23: 847, 847; CWM 13: 115. Pages 41-43: CWSA 2: 243 (SABCL 5: 61); SABCL 26: 38-39, 400-01, 401, 413-14. Pages 44-46: CWSA 2: 603 (SABCL 5; 132); SA-KRS: 711; CWM 13: 8, 8, 9; Savitri: 445-47, 346; CWM 13: 7; Sri Aurobindo "I am here, I am here" (Nirodbaran): 24. Pages 47-48: Savitri: 38-39, 90; CWM 13: 24; Sweef Mother: Luminous Notes (Mona Sarkar): 47-52; Savitri: 232. Pages 49: Om Prayers and Mantras: 17. Pages 50-51: CWM 1: 191; CWM 15: 202, 204, 198; CWM 12: 112; SArBW: 366; CWM 9: 173. Pages 52-53: SABCL 25: 24-25; Savitri: 55; CWM 13: 21; CW of NKG Vol.6: 259; CWM 13: 6; CWSA 2: 537-38 (SABCL 5: 102). Pages 54-55: Savitri: 692; CWM 13: 29; CWSA 19: 175-76 (SABCL 13: 166-67).

Abbreviations

CWM = Collected Works of the Mother, First edition, 1972-1987 (17 volumes)

SABCL = Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library edition, 1970-1973 (30 volumes)

CWSA = Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (37 volumes), under publication since 1997.

SA-HLU = Sri Aurobindo: His Life Unique by Rishabhchand 1981 edition.

SA-KRS = Sri Aurobindo; A Biography and a History by K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, 4th ed., 1985.

LOSA = The Life of Sri Aurobindo by A.B. Purani, Fourth edition.

SA-BW = (Sri Aurobindo's) Bengali Writings (Translation in English), Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1991. CW of NKG = Complete Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta.

In the references, the initial numeral specifies the Volume Number and the second number(s) the page(s) where the passage occurs In that volume.

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