Preparing for the Miraculous

258 eleven talksbeing. But, as I said, I saw him: he was a-sexual, by whichI mean that he was neither female nor male. And he representsall what is intrepid in the vital, with a calm but absolutepower.”Not only do these words give us a glimpse, like so muchelse of what the Mother has communicated, of the complexity,the astonishing variety and the mind-boggling creativityof the worlds behind the façade of our material existence,they also provide us with some notion of the multipleand glorious personalities of the Mother – who was at onetime sitting there in that simple chair on the second storeyof the Ashram building, bent in the back and subject to thesymptoms of old age.The great World-Mother now in her arose ...A flaming warrior from the eternal peaksEmpowered to force the door denied and closedSmote from Death’s visage its dumb absoluteAnd burst the bounds of consciousness and Time. 555. The complete Avatar“There are the Two who are One and play in manyworlds ... This whole wide world is only he and she ...”wrote Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. 56 The Two-in-One at the originof the Manifestation were not only known in the Indiantradition, they were also part of the wisdom traditions elsewherein the world. There was the Absolute, self-existentand self-sufficient in its eternal existence, sometimes calledthe Silent Brahman; but there was also the duality in the ActiveBrahman, the self-manifesting Divine, of Ishwara andShakti, Purusha and Prakriti. A Gnostic text from the second55 Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, p. 21.56 Id., pp. 61 and 63.