Preparing for the Miraculous

the kalki avatar 247have to plunge to build a bridge between the two. But thattoo is necessary for my work and one has to face it.” 32“It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I haveto bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everythingelse to the one aim of uplifting the earth out of its darknesstowards the Divine.” 33 “Anyone who wants to changeearth-nature must first accept it in order to change it. Toquote from an unpublished poem of my own:He who would bring the heavens hereMust descend himself into clayAnd the burden of earthly nature bearAnd tread the dolorous way. 34(Sri Aurobindo is quoting here for the first time a quatrainfrom that marvellous poem of his “A God’s Labour”,which could also be called “The Avatar’s Song”.)Some of the Mother’s suffering during her last years isabundantly illustrated in The Mother’s Agenda, and partlystill alive in the memory of the persons who were physicallynear to her or to whom it was given to approach herat the time.In Savitri, the Avatar’s epic, there are many lines evokingthe burden he has to bear. For instance:Mortality bears ill the eternal’s touch ...It sullies with its mire heaven’s messengers ...It meets the sons of God with death and pain. ...The cross their payment for the crown they gave ...He who would save the race must share its pain ...Heaven’s riches they bring, their sufferings count the price ...32 Id., p. 153.33 Id., p. 152.34 Id., p. 153.