Preparing for the Miraculous

240 eleven talksthe Way followed, the call to others to follow, everything –it was all make-believe since I was the Divine and nothingcould touch me and none follow me.” 15An Avatar, according to Sri Aurobindo, “is never in factmerely a prophet, he is a realizer, and establisher ... of somethingessential and radical needed for the terrestrial evolutionwhich is the evolution of the embodied spirit through successivestages towards the Divine.” 16 “For my yoga is donenot for myself who need nothing and do not need salvationor anything else, but precisely for the earth consciousness, toopen a way for the earth consciousness to change.” 17“The crisis in which the Avatar appears, though apparentto the outward eye only as a crisis of events andgreat material changes, is always in its source and realmeaning a crisis in the consciousness of humanity when ithas to undergo some grand modification and effect somenew development. For this action of change a divine forceis needed ...” It should be kept in mind that the real stuffof things is the Spirit, and that therefore everything existsand changes within the Spirit, also what we, human beings,perceive as material. “When the crisis has a spiritualseed or intention, then a complete or partial manifestationof the God-consciousness in a human mind and soul comesas its originator or leader. That is the Avatar.” 18“The Avatar is not bound to do extraordinary actions,but he is bound to give his acts or his work or what he is –15 Nirodbaran: Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo, p. 165.This is a decisive argument against the thesis that Christ did notdie on the cross, as it is against the opinion that Christ, being God, didnot suffer on the cross. If his suffering was not real, his avataric missionmade no sense.16 Sri Aurobindo: op. cit., p. 415.17 Nirodbaran: op. cit., p. 143.18 Sri Aurobindo: Essays on the Gita, p. 169.