The Synthesis of Yoga - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

130 The Yoga of Divine Works
that comes inevitably in the course and process of the spiritual
evolution, and therefore he will not despise or blind himself to
the Godhead because it is lodged in a human body, mānus. ī ˙m
tanum ā´sritam. Beyond the limited human conception of God,
he will pass to the one divine Eternal, but also he will meet
him in the faces of the Gods, his cosmic personalities supporting
the World-Play, detect him behind the mask of the Vibhutis,
embodied World-Forces or human Leaders, reverence and obey
him in the Guru, worship him in the Avatar. This will be to him
his exceeding good fortune if he can meet one who has realised
or is becoming That which he seeks for and can by opening to
it in this vessel of its manifestation himself realise it. For that is
the most palpable sign of the growing fulfilment, the promise of
the great mystery of the progressive Descent into Matter which
is the secret sense of the material creation and the justification
of terrestrial existence.
Thus reveals himself to the seeker in the progress of the
sacrifice the Lord of the sacrifice. At any point this revelation
can begin; in any aspect the Master of the Work can take up
the work in him and more and more press upon him and it for
the unfolding of his presence. In time all the Aspects disclose
themselves, separate, combine, fuse, are unified together. At the
end there shines through it all the supreme integral Reality, unknowable
to Mind which is part of the Ignorance, but knowable
because self-aware in the light of a spiritual consciousness and
a supramental knowledge.
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This revelation of a highest Truth or a highest Being, Consciousness,
Power, Bliss and Love, impersonal and personal at once
and so taking up both sides of our own being, — since in us also
is the ambiguous meeting of a Person and a mass of impersonal
principles and forces, — is at once the first aim and the condition
of the ultimate achievement of the sacrifice. The achievement
itself takes the shape of a union of our own existence with That
which is thus made manifest to our vision and experience, and