Then page 59 describes our earth, and how the Divine is here, works through everything, and how one day the soul’s chequered walk shall be justified.
Then the line, ‘These calm and distant Mights shall act at last’ seems to connect to these immortals again. But then, something very mysterious: Sri Aurobindo says, ‘Await the sound of the Incarnate’s voice,’ not the Divine’s voice, not the Self or Spirit but very specifically, Incarnate’s voice. What does this mean?
The Incarnate Divine, the Avatar, the Divine becoming human, is regarded by the Gita as one of the three greatest secrets. He is the bridge between the Creation and the Creator, the joining link and hence something greater in a way than the Creator Himself. In any case, He is considered by the mortals as well as the Immortals as the relatable divinity, that which brings the Supreme beyond all perceptions and conceptions within the range of our senses so that we too may rise to His status through his living contact. It is the stepping out of the Divine within into the outside, making Him easily accessible to us.
Now about the other part which the line mentions, about the great gods who too wait for the Incarnate’s Voice. In fact, some of the gods either themselves incarnate along with the Avatar or send their emanations to help in the work. That is what we see in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. We see Hanuman Jo as an incarnation of Shiva so too Sugriva and Nala, Neel and others. Similarly, we see this in the Krishnavatara. The Pandavas were all aspects of some of the gods. Even the gopas and gopis all came to help release Bhakti. Sri Aurobindo also spoke about it and confirmed the same about some of the disciples, for example, Varuna and Mitra incarnating in Nolini da and Amrit da.
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