Preparing for the Miraculous

140 eleven talksEarth specialAs we have seen, it is the main tenet of the CopernicanPrinciple that there is nothing special or privileged aboutour location in the universe. The spiritual view of Sri Aurobindoand the Mother says exactly the opposite, as hasbeen considered in another talk. 26 In the present contextthe following quotations must suffice.The Mother: “In the immensity of the astronomicalskies, earth is a thing absolutely without interest and withoutimportance, but from the occult and spiritual point ofview, earth is the concentrated symbol of the universe. ...For the convenience and necessity of the work, the wholeuniverse has been concentrated and condensed symbolicallyin a grain of sand which is called the earth. And thereforeit is the symbol of all: all that is to be changed, all thatis to be transformed, all that is to be converted is here. Thismeans that if one concentrates on this work and does ithere, all the rest will follow automatically.” 27Sri Aurobindo: “Earth is the foundation and all theworlds are on the earth and to imagine a clean-cut or irreconcilabledifference between them is ignorance; here andnot elsewhere, not by going to some other world, the divinerealization must come.”“Evolution takes place on earth and therefore the earthis the proper field for progress.” 28The Mother’s strong statement speaks volumes: Laterre, on ne la détruit pas ! – the Earth will not be destroyed!26 See talk 5, “2012 and 1956: Doomsday?”27 The Mother: Entretiens 1953, 23 September.28 Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga, pp. 178 and 111.