Preparing for the Miraculous

194 eleven talksThe Big BangTwo months before he descended into death, Sri Aurobindoseemed in a hurry to finish “his real work,” thisto the astonishment of Nirodbaran, his amanuensis, whowrites in his memoirs that he had never seen Sri Aurobindohurry for anything. By his “real work” Sri Aurobindomeant Savitri, the epic which he had been rewritingand expanding for decades. If anything, Sri Aurobindo’sconcern shows the importance attached by him to this majoropus of his later years. In it he laid down the essencenot only of his own knowledge and experience but also ofthe experience of the Mother, as she has said herself. Wecan find her supreme praise for Savitri in a conversationwhich Mona Sarkar, then a young sadhak, has publishedunder the title Sweet Mother – Harmonies of Light. There isno doubt that Sri Aurobindo, who had written The Poetryof the Future, conceived Savitri as his poetry of the future, apoetry of Truth in the age-old tradition of the truth-seers,the rishis, who formulated the mantric lines of the Veda andthe Upanishads. Putting it all together, one might call SavitriSri Aurobindo’s testament.As the Mother said in the aforementioned conversation,Sri Aurobindo shows us in Savitri the main structureand the sense of the divine manifestation which we call theuniverse, mantrically formulated from the largest spiritualknowledge and perception ever possessed by an incarnatedbeing. We find in the epic a description of the universeand its origin, the gradations or worlds of involution andevolution, the beings of those worlds, the evolution of lifeon Earth, the past, present and future of the human beingin its changing environments, life and death, the aspectsand relation of Spirit and Matter, the meaning of it alland the ways of the Divine with it. And much more. Manystatements refer directly to science in a positive or negative