Preparing for the Miraculous

228 eleven talksall was Darkness and Ignorance in the most absolute sense.From that Inconscient the Subconscient and Matter haveemerged. The Inconscient we cannot imagine; what “Matter”means, science has given us a more complete ideain its discoveries of the billions of galaxies, the fantasticfireworks of the material universe, and the wonders in thesubatomic world; the Subconscient is the murky waters inwhich our life and our mental consciousness have takenshape and on which they are still floating. Life and Mindare the level accelerating evolution has reached in the humanbeing. We are the children of the evolution as concentratedin the workings of Mother Earth, which means thatwe are carrying the cosmic past, from its very beginnings,in us, even in our cells.Inflicting still its habits on the cellsThe phantom of a dark and evil startGhostlike pursues all that we dream and do. 28It is the weight of this past in us that causes what Sri Aurobindohas called “the downward gravitation,” so easy togive in to. Yet the whole sense of the involutionary plunge,also called “the Fall,” and the effort towards the recovery ofthe original divinity lies in the Love and Ananda which areredeeming all.“It was you ...”History is for the most part a horror story, with onlyhere and there an oasis of rationality, beauty, kindness orlove. It was not for nothing that Sri Aurobindo and theMother so often called Homo sapiens “the human animal,”for this is what we still are. True spirituality is not only amatter of ethereal experiences, hearing bells or hovering afoot above the ground. Especially Sri Aurobindo’s Integral28 Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, p. 140.