Preparing for the Miraculous

262 eleven talksmay say that the supramental transformation of the humanspecies into divine beings was not a part of the traditionalvision.In his book Dasavatara – The Ten Incarnations of Vishnu,V. Ashok, for instance, writes: “Lord Vishnu mounted ona white horse, with a drawn scimitar, blazing like a cometwill come to end the present Kali Yuga and inaugurate areign of universal goodness, peace and prosperity, renovatethe creation with an era of purity, a Krita Yuga. Thefour Yugas will then proceed in the same order once again,with similar characteristics, and this process will repeat itselftill the final dissolution or Mahapralaya. ... At this nadirin human existence a divine Being, who comprehendsall things and is the beginning and the end, shall descendupon the earth. He will be born in the family of Vishnuyasas,an eminent brahmin of Sambal village, as Kalki. Hewill be endowed with eight superhuman faculties. He willdestroy the mlechchas, thieves and all those whose mindsare set on wickedness. He will then re-establish righteousnesson earth, and the minds of the good people who surviveat the end of Kali Yuga will be awakened and be madeas clear as crystal. These men, who are changed in virtue ofthat particular time, shall be those who will give birth to arace which shall follow: the Krita Aga or Age of Purity.” 65Sri Aurobindo has closely related the Kalki Avatarwith the Krishna Avatar. “Krishna is the Anandamaya; hesupports the evolution through the overmind leading it towardsAnanda.” 66 “... The last Avatar, Kalki, only accomplishesthe work Krishna began – he fulfils in power thegreat struggle which the previous Avatars prepared in allits potentialities ...” 6765 V. Ashok: op. cit., pp. 292 and 294.66 Id., p. 405.67 Sri Aurobindo: Essays on the Gita, p. 166.