Is it only because She was doing Transformational Yoga for the body? Is it because She was taking in the sickness and disorder of the World? Because how can the Mother of the Worlds … in her own Creation, … in her own substance of being … how can even the cells and atoms not listen to her… they are her???
This is the only thing that doesn’t make sense… it just doesn’t make sense to me…
This is so with every Avatar. Though they are a direct intervention of the Divine, they take a human body and with it all the challenges of the human body. In fact the very purpose of the Avatar is to show how to navigate through and transcend the human difficulties and transmute them into a means for union with the Divine.
In addition the Mother being who She is took upon herself, in her very body (the very seat of imperfection) all the very difficulties of the disciples. And yes, the very process of transformation implied an increasing pressure upon the body which, though specially prepared for the Work, was still human, and hence prone to human sufferings. This is the price the Divine pays when He comes to earth for its transfiguration. It is described in Savitri as the debt the Divine pays to earth and man described in Savitri in these lines.
‘He who would save the race must share its pain:
This he shall know who obeys that grandiose urge.
The Great who came to save this suffering world
And rescue out of Time’s shadow and the Law,
Must pass beneath the yoke of grief and pain;
They are caught by the Wheel that they had hoped to break,
On their shoulders they must bear man’s load of fate.
Heaven’s riches they bring, their sufferings count the price
Or they pay the gift of knowledge with their lives.’
Affectionately,
Alok Da
