She is everywhere and in everything, just as the Divine Presence is everywhere and in everything. It includes the stone, atom, mud, plant, animal, human, even the asura and rakshasa. What this means is that there is only One Power that moves everything. The Mother is that Divine Power. She is the Conscious Force of God who builds, supports, sustains, evolves, and destroys all things. If She were not in matter as the secret Force within it then there would be no matter, no stone, no material universe. It is like each object in creation has a certain energy that sustains it. Would it exist without this energy? This energy comes from Her through Her Presence in everything.Β Of course, this Presence of the Divine in things and objects is in the fourth dimension and hence remains unaffected by the changes in the object, even though it is their secret cause and support. It is somewhat like the sunlight that is there in every particle of sand, and without this light, there would be nothing upon earth. Yet this light is not destroyed when the objects are destroyed. So too the Divine is in everything, yet She is not these things themselves.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
(follow-up question)
But Alok da, was it necessary to be in all the non-living things?Β We all can grow. But will they also grow?Β Was it necessary for Mother to manifest Herself in the matter? Was there any particular reason for Her to be in the matter? Will matter also grow like how we grow?
I mean, was there any specific reason why She manifested Herself in matter also?Β
But evolution begins from Matter. If the Divine were not in matter, then nothing would emerge. Everything on earth, from rocks and minerals, plants and animals, humans all, all without exception, has a physical frame formed by matter. Matter is a condensation of the Divine Energy to provide a stable ground for all else to be erected.Β
Sri Aurobindo gives a detailed understanding in The Life Divine as to why the Divine Mother chose Matter as a starting point. The essence of it is that matter provides a firm, concrete, solid ground for further evolution. Whatever is established in matter, it tends to stick and stay. Take an example of the human body, built of matter. Now thoughts, feelings, imaginations, etc, come and go, but once it gets concretised through physical contact, then it tends to stay for long. It is like learning something, say driving, typing, painting, in the mind, and learning it by doing it practically. Another example is building a house in imagination and building it on the ground with material substance.Β
Yes, Matter grows. In the purely material world itself, mountains grow, rivers change course or disappear, stars grow and collapse, universe itself expands. Besides, matter evolves as living beings emerge and thinking man emerges. So matter is like the firm foundation for all else to be established. Of course, it brings its own difficulty as it resists change. But the Divine Mother being in Matter presses from within material things, say the human body, and the same Divine Mother in the higher Divine Worlds presses from Above until the new possibility is born and evolution happens.Β
Affectionately,
Alok Da
