Preparing for the Miraculous

the kalki avatar 241any of these or all – a significance and an effective powerthat are part of something essential to be done in the historyof the earth and its races.” 192. The world-arrangementWe have seen that Sri Aurobindo said: “Certain conditionshave been established for the game.” He also spokeabout “the rules of the game,” “the world-arrangement”and “the arrangement of the omnipotent Divine in Nature.”And he said: “All is possible, but all is not licit – except bya recognizable process.” 20 To realize what is the (cosmic)game, the process or world-arrangement, is of immenseimportance; it is essential to understand Sri Aurobindo’sworldview and his avataric mission.The ancient understandings of the cosmos all saw itsdevelopment in time, and therefore the history of humanity,as cyclic. There is a continuous, eternal succession of thefour ages or yugas: Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron, graduallydegenerating towards the critical point where all is takenback into its origin (pralaya) and then started again in thesame order. “Lord Vishnu mounted on a white horse, witha drawn scimitar, blazing like a comet will come to endthe present Kali Yuga and inaugurate a reign of universalgoodness, peace and prosperity, he will renovate the creationwith an era of purity or Krita Yuga. The four yugaswill then proceed in the same order once again, with similarcharacteristics, and this process will repeat itself till thefinal dissolution or Mahapralaya.” (V. Ashok) 21Sri Aurobindo accepts the essence of the meaning ofthe cycles and the cycles as such, but in a progressive way,19 Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga, p. 414.20 Nirodbaran: op. cit., p. 133.21 V. Ashok: Dasavatar – The Ten Incarnations of Vishnu, p. 292.