It depends (whether Their mission failed or not) on how one looks at it, or rather, what are the indices of failure and success are. Let me illustrate with an example which, though inadequate as all examples are, still conveys the process.
Imagine a scientist engaged in discovering a vaccine that would eventually eradicate a deadly disease. The disease endemic in the population at large takes epidemic proportions from time to time. There are doctors who have found individual remedies, but none have tried to eradicate it or even conceived of the possibility.
Now, a scientist moved with deep compassion dedicates his life to the discovery of such a vaccine capable of eradicating the disease. He gives up his life towards this discovery by taking the disease upon himself to become, in a way, the first human specimen. He does discover it and experiments successfully on a few samples of humanity. However, before he could make it available for the world at large, he is opposed by all the lobbies whose medicines and the money they earn from it will lose their monopoly. He leaves his body while fighting with this lobby who literally wages a war against him. His partner and collaborator takes up the work of making it accessible for the masses. She has found the way and has started processes and a number of miniature laboratories for ready availability. Her work done, she withdraws from the public eye.
Now, at this point, will we call it a success or a failure? In a fundamental sense, it is a success. But does it mean the disease will be eradicated at once in all? Does it mean that the disease will be gone automatically simply because the vaccine is available? No, it has to be accepted as an act of faith to begin with. The price has to be paid. One has to be constitutionally ready to take it so that there are no side effects and so on and so forth. So if one uses the criteria of complete eradication, then one may conclude it has failed, or to be more precise and scientifically accurate and rationally correct, one may say that we have to wait and watch. The early results are promising, but the promise of complete eradication is yet to be seen. In other words, conditions apply, for now at least. Over a period of time, the acceptance may increase and by the law of morphogenetic resonance, once a critical mass is freed from the illness, the immunity will spread naturally to others.
We can apply this analogy to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s Work. They are the scientists, the Ashram is the first laboratory, the first few disciples are the specimen, the disease is ignorance, the supramental Force is the vaccine, the old schools of thought are the pharmacy lobbies, the germs of the disease are falsehood, unconsciousness, suffering and death, the price to be paid are ego and desire. Sri Aurobindo has discovered the remedy and hence succeeded. The Mother has made it available at large and hence succeeded. They didn’t do it for themselves but for humanity. They are already immune. They have done what they came to do. Now it is our turn please…….
Mahishasura is the Asura of greed and lust born out of the dark inertia of the Inconscience. It can delay but not stop the action of the Divine Mother, who is the original Supreme Power, Adya Shakti.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
Source: द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध और मानव भविष्य | श्री अरविन्द के भविष्य – सूचक काव्य (9) | TH 459
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