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Aswapati’s unparalleled occult-yogic act

Aswapati’s unparalleled occult-yogic act

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RY Deshpande

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Aswapati’s unparalleled occult-yogic act

Here is the Avataric work of Aswapati:

A Strength he sought that was not yet on earth,

Help from a Power too great for mortal will,

The Light of a Truth now only seen afar,

A sanction from his high omnipotent Source. ||83.4||

But from the appalling heights there stooped no voice;

The timeless lids were closed; no opening came. ||83.5||

The problem of creation is rooted deep into the Inconscient out of which has to arise a new and marvellous creation. The Yogi feels the resistance which could also be due its presence in his own being and in his body. This is because he fully accepted the conditions, that thus alone these could be tackled. He bears the assault of all that antagonism:

A veiled collaboration with the Night

Even in himself survived and hid from his view:

Still something in his earthly being kept

Its kinship with the Inconscient whence it came. ||83.8||

Yet some minutest dissident might escape

And still a centre lurk of the blind force. ||83.13||

For the Inconscient too is infinite;

The more its abysses we insist to sound,

The more it stretches, stretches endlessly. ||83.14||

For that

He tore desire up from its bleeding roots

And offered to the gods the vacant place. ||83.15||

Thus could he bear the touch immaculate. ||83.16||

A last and mightiest transformation came. ||83.17||

The single act which he alone can do bears the fruit:

His nature grew a movement of the All,

Exploring itself to find that all was He,

His soul was a delegation of the All

That turned from itself to join the one Supreme. ||83.23||

Transcended was the human formula;

Man’s heart that had obscured the Inviolable

Assumed the mighty beating of a god’s;

His seeking mind ceased in the Truth that knows;

His life was a flow of the universal life. ||83.24||

He stood fulfilled on the world’s highest line

Awaiting the ascent beyond the world,

Awaiting the Descent the world to save. ||83.25||

“Awaiting the Descent the world to save” — but that Descent is to be compelled. She must take a mortal birth and save the world. The Yogi does compel her.

The featured painting is by Huta, Savitri, Book Three Canto Three.

2 responses to “Aswapati’s unparalleled occult-yogic act”

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    RY Deshpande

    He tore desire up from its bleeding roots

    And offered to the gods the vacant place. 

    This is the most crucial and decisive occult-yogic act, that which he alone among the Yogis could do. But what is this desire springing up with bleeding roots?

    These bleeding roots are in the abysses of Inconscience. There is the mute and helpless urge in the Inconscience itself, it seeking its genuine possibility, a dumb utterance whose voice does not climb up from the depths, it too rigidly tied to itself with all the strength and power of resistance and opposition. Aswapati tears it and offers that vacant place now for the divine elements to enter in. He frees himself from all that which arises from the Inconscience. But that need not be the end of everything, — because the Inconscience too is infinite. But functionally a great act has been performed. He stands fulfilled on the world’s highest line.

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    RY Deshpande

    In the context of “he tore the bleeding roots of desire”, let us see what Sri Aurobindo reveals, this when he was incarcerated in Alipore Jail for one year. More or less immediately after being taken to the Jail as an undertrial prisoner he had an experience which he narrates as follows:

    “When I was arrested and hurried to the Lal Bazar hajat I was shaken in faith for a while, for I could not look into the heart of His intention. Therefore I faltered for a moment and cried out in my heart to Him, ‘What is this that has happened to me? I believed that I had a mission to work for the people of my country and until that work was done, I should have Thy protection. Why then am I here and on such a charge?’ A day passed and a second day and a third, when a voice came to me from within, ‘Wait and see.’ Then I grew calm and waited. I was taken from Lal Bazar to Alipore and was placed for one month in a solitary cell apart from men. There I waited day and night for the voice of God within me, to know what He had to say to me, to learn what I had to do. In this seclusion the earliest realisation, the first lesson came to me. I remembered then that a month or more before my arrest, a call had come to me to put aside all activity, to go into seclusion and to look into myself, so that I might enter into closer communion with Him. I was weak and could not accept the call. My work was very dear to me and in the pride of my heart I thought that unless I was there, it would suffer or even fail and cease; therefore I would not leave it. It seemed to me that He spoke to me again and said, “The bonds you had not strength to break, I have broken for you, because it is not my will nor was it ever my intention that that should continue. I have another thing for you to do and it is for that I have brought you here, to teach you what you could not learn for yourself and to train you for my work.” 

    The bleeding roots of desire are here: “ … a month or more before my arrest, a call had come to me to put aside all activity. I was weak and could not accept the call. My work was very dear to me and in the pride of my heart I thought that unless I was there, it would suffer or even fail and cease; therefore I would not leave it.” Though these have their connection with the human aspect, there is still a deeper connection with the abysses of the Inconscience.

    https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/08/uttarpara-speech

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