“O Earth you will assume many forms and become wife of many masters. O evil-minded one, you did not want me to bear a son. Having been fouled as a result of my anger, you will not have the pleasure of having a son, cursed Uma.” What is the explanation of this in the context of Sri Aurobindo’s ideas? Will it have something to obstruct the Earthly evolution towards Divine fulfilment?
The curse of the gods and the realised seers are often a blessing in the obverse. The many Masters are the kings who will rule upon earth. Not bearing her own offspring means that to experience motherhood, she will have to depend upon the higher worlds and on God Himself. That is, in fact, how evolution happens as Earth is touched by beings, forces, energies of the higher worlds, including the Divine Himself; she gives birth to new forms and new possibilities. Otherwise, by herself, she cannot conceive or manifest new forms even though they are within her as a possibility. She depends upon the intervention of the higher planes.
Sri Aurobindo writes in Savitri.
‘Acting upon this visible Nature’s scheme
It wakens our earth-matter’s heavy doze
To think and feel and to react to joy;
It models in us our diviner parts,
Lifts mortal mind into a greater air,
Makes yearn this life of flesh to intangible aims,
Links the body’s death with immortality’s call:
Out of the swoon of the Inconscience
It labours towards a superconscient Light.
If earth were all and this were not in her,
Thought could not be nor life-delight’s response:
Only material forms could then be her guests
Driven by an inanimate world-force.
Earth by this golden superfluity
Bore thinking man and more than man shall bear;
This higher scheme of being is our cause
And holds the key to our ascending fate;
It calls out of our dense mortality
The conscious spirit nursed in Matter’s house.’
(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-world-stair#p30)
The story of Karthikeya and the Avatars is closely connected to this narrative.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
