Preparing for the Miraculous

232 eleven talksone of his bouts of yogic depression and doubt about themeaning of it all. Sri Aurobindo answered him: “In the beginningit was you (not the human you which is now complainingbut the central being) who accepted or even invitedthe adventure of the Ignorance. Sorrow and struggle are anecessary consequence of the plunge into the Inconscienceand the evolutionary emergence out of it. The explanationis that it had an object, the eventual play of the Divine Consciousnessand Ananda not in its initial transcendence butunder conditions for which the plunge into the Inconsciencewas necessary. It is fundamentally a cosmic problem andcan be understood only from the cosmic consciousness. Ifyou want a solution which will be agreeable to the humanmind and feelings, I am afraid there is none. No doubt, if humanbeings had made the universe, they would have donemuch better, but they were not there to be consulted whenthey were made. Only your central being was there.” 30This answer contains in a nutshell, and in the most limpidlanguage, much of what has been considered in thistalk. Sri Aurobindo wrote the same in the mantric lines ofSavitri:O mortal who complainst of death and fate,Accuse none of the harms thyself hast called;This troubled world thou hast chosen for thy home,Thou art thyself the author of thy pain.Once in the immortal boundlessness of Self,In a vast of Truth and Consciousness and LightThe soul looked out from its felicity.It felt the Spirit’s interminable bliss,It knew itself deathless, timeless, spaceless, one,It saw the Eternal, lived in the Infinite.Then, curious of a shadow thrown by Truth,30 Nirodbaran: Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo, p. 277.