Preparing for the Miraculous

preparing for the miraculous 47was predicted by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as one ofthe inevitable phenomena of the Great Transition.The path which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother calledthe Integral Yoga is therefore not a fixed system with adefin ed goal to be realized within the lifetime of the practitioner(as are other paths of yoga). What they have initiatedis continuing now in ways humans cannot foresee, but tothe general trend of which they can collaborate if they feelcalled to. The great evolutionary adventure of the past willbe continued in unimaginable ways. Already a century ago,after the self-assuredness of the bourgeois era and beforethe explosions of the twentieth-century wars, Sri Aurobindoannounced “the time of the unexpected.”The present insecurity, posited by the post-modern intellectualsas an innate modality of the human mind, is general,except in the vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Motherwhich clearly and in detail defines the rationale behindours and the coming times. If all is That – the fundamentalpremise of the Upanishads – then the present vortices inhumanity are also That, and the most secure foothold mustbe the inner Presence, the Divine in us. On this basis onecan be prepared for the unexpected – for the miraculous,which is the assured future definitively to come.Of laws and miraclesScience tells us that the universe functions accordingto laws which the human mind can find out and formulate.“The scientific culture that arose in Western Europe, ofwhich we are the inheritors, was dominated by adherenceto the absolute invariance of laws of Nature, which therebyunderwrote the meaningfulness of the scientific enterpriseand assured its success.” (John Barrow)