Apropos of the Divine Body — A Trilogy

Tome One: Towards the Intermediate Race
Tome Two: Savitri the incarnate Word
Tome Three: The Essential Agenda

This effort is an audacious attempt to get an insight into the Yoga-Work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, pertaining to the last phase of their avataric presence here, 1940-50 in the case of the Master-Yogi and 1956-73 of the dynamic Yogini, id est, Savitri and The Agenda as the most precious documents gifted to us by them, a topaz quarry ablaze in superlative intensity.

If Savitri is the final seal of Sri Aurobindo in decreeing the next stage in evolutionary march of time towards supramental manifestation on earth, that the spirit shall take up the human play and make this earthly life the life divine, the Mother’s Agenda sets itself in realising that divine pronouncement and making it an actuality in existence in the accomplishment of the promise. In that sense the Essential Agenda, Agenda decanted of extraneous things that are not concerned with the divine body for a divine life, is a continuation of Savitri itself. One can say that it was dictated by Sri Aurobindo himself for the Mother as an effectuating Word of Action. It means, if the Agenda is an unwritten part of Savitri, Savitri remains incomplete without the Essential Agenda. That is the totality of their Yoga-Work.

The Essential Agenda presented here is the third volume of this avowal entirely based on the Mother’s revelations during the last decade and a half of her yogic accomplishments, it bearing only on the issues of the physical transformation.

What is attempted in the present Essential Agenda is a kind of personal, subjective, selection of the text from the original Conversations of the Mother. It has been done in a certain frame of approach which may undergo a change, is bound to undergo a change if looked into it again, at another time. Which means, the Essential Agenda will regenerate itself, will evolve each time it is approached. And of course it is bound to be different for different individuals that, again, changing with each renewed reading of theirs. There is always so much of freshness and newness, and fruitfulness, that one simply gets stupefied by the magnificence of the deepest revelations ever made, ever made. This could be a happy acceptable sign, an indication, of our own growth in those realities. It is always good to prosperously remain in it.

RY Deshpande