And why can’t Sri Aurobindo do the transformation?
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are in their essential consciousness. But for the purposes of manifestation they appear as two, even as Ishwara and Shakti. It is the occult arrangement of creation itself that the Purusha, Ishwara is the passive silent Witness that stands behind as the stable support whereas Prakriti, Shakti is the dynamic Conscious Force that creates, building forms and names to express some aspect or truth self-contained in the Ishwara. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother represent this profound truth in their own life. They are one in essence but two in the manifestation and as far as action is concerned. Sri Aurobindo pours into Her and the Divine Mother pours, shares it all with Her children who are portions of Herself.
Sri Aurobindo reveals in his writings on the Mother.
‘The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates…..
The Supreme is manifest in her for ever as the everlasting Sachchidananda, manifested through her in the worlds as the one and dual consciousness of Ishwara-Shakti and the dual principle of Purusha-Prakriti, embodied by her in the Worlds and the Planes and the Gods and their Energies and figured because of her as all that is in the known worlds and in unknown others. All is her play with the Supreme; all is her manifestation of the mysteries of the Eternal, the miracles of the Infinite. All is she, for all are parcel and portion of the divine Conscious-Force. Nothing can be here or elsewhere but what she decides and the Supreme sanctions; nothing can take shape except what she moved by the Supreme perceives and forms after casting it into seed in her creating Ananda.’
The Mother says the same thing in the simplest of ways reminding us of the ancient truth of Ishwara and Shakti.
‘Without him, I exist not; without me, he is unmanifest.’
Affectionately,
Alok Da
