Preparing for the Miraculous

the kalki avatar 261Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were one being, one Avatar.They were:... the deathless Two-in-One,A single being in two bodies clasped,A diarchy of two united souls.In a new act of the drama of the worldThe united Two began a greater age.An hour began, the matrix of new Time. 636. The Kalki AvatarIn Hinduism, the Kalki Avatar is thought of as the lastof the succession of Avatars, who will come at the end ofthe present Kali Yuga. The victor of the last, decisive battlewith the hostile forces, he will ride on a white (winged)horse and brandish a sword or scimitar. He will vanquishYama, or Death, and resolve all opposites as well as overcomedarkness. He will be the divine man, at one with infinitedivinity.Sri Aurobindo wrote, however: “Too much importanceneed not be attached to the details about Kalki – they arerather symbolic than an attempt to prophesy details of futurehistory. What is expressed is something that has to come,but it is symbolically indicated, no more.” 64 The descriptionof the Avatars dates from the Puranas, in other words froma traditional view that saw the evolution of the cosmos ascyclic. As mentioned before, the Aurobindonian conceptionof the cosmic evolution is cyclic but progressive. Although theevolutionary development can be traced back to the ancientHindu scriptures, as did Sri Aurobindo, the general thinkingand imagining did not take evolution into account, and one63 Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, pp. 293, 411, 399.64 Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga, p. 403.