You can see it all over the world. Almost all religious institutions, exceptions apart, pay only a lip service to God. The priests and the adherents hardly try to change their life by the teachings. There are number of followers but hardly anyone tries to understand, let alone follow. Christianity died with Christ on the Cross and Islam was killed by the warring tribes that took over and turned it into a political tool to brainwash the masses. The Buddhists are busy turning the mighty Buddha into a little monk. The Sikhs have reduced themselves to hair, turban and beard. Even the countless sects and cults in India organised around Sri Krishna and Shiva hardly care about the truth and the depths of the teaching. Has Sri Aurobindo been spared? Knowing this predicament they were busy establishing the Supramental Consciousness upon earth rather than form another new sect or cult or religion. Here are few lines from Savitri to remind us.
‘Hard is it to persuade earth-nature’s change;
Mortality bears ill the eternal’s touch:
It fears the pure divine intolerance
Of that assault of ether and of fire;
It murmurs at its sorrowless happiness,
Almost with hate repels the light it brings;
It trembles at its naked power of Truth
And the might and sweetness of its absolute Voice.
Inflicting on the heights the abysm’s law,
It sullies with its mire heaven’s messengers:
Its thorns of fallen nature are the defence
It turns against the saviour hands of Grace;
It meets the sons of God with death and pain.
A glory of lightnings traversing the earth-scene,
Their sun-thoughts fading, darkened by ignorant minds,
Their work betrayed, their good to evil turned,
The cross their payment for the crown they gave,
Only they leave behind a splendid Name.’
That is the importance and logic of the supramental evolution. It compels the change.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
