... way or another. The term "evolutionary avatar" has to be properly understood. It does not mean that avatarhood is achieved as something one was not born with. None can ever become an avatar. Avatarhood is preordained and is a state from birth. If we consider Sri Aurobindo an avatar, he was as much a born avatar as Sri Krishna. He did not evolve into an avatar. The born avatarhood gradually ...
... grandeur that is Sri Aurobindo and look at us poor pygmies!" No doubt, he is not only superb: he is also an Avatar - and Avatarhood is not something one can choose to have: it is uniquely ordained. All the same, what the Avatar comes to do is to exemplify the possibilities open to us short of the Avataric role. Let me quote to you the letter Sri Aurobindo wrote to me in April 1935 in reply to my question... supramentalisation. It should be regarded as the fulfilment of God's working in the world, not as a personal chance or achievement." The letter contains a potent threefold hint of Sri Aurobindo's Avatar-status - the awareness of a pre-existent conscious plenitude as if everything were already achieved, and the ardour of manifestation heroically ready to undergo the utmost labour as if nothing were... "coil" as an archaic or extra-literary turn of speech connotes "disturbance, noise" and could stand also for "fuss" in colloquial Elizabethanese. In Sri Aurobindo's early poetry it has an Indian avatar with a trema-sign over the i: "coil". It is the Hindi name for the cuckoo whose Sanskrit appellation is "kokila". In common English the current spelling for this bird is "koel" with the accent on ...
... the tradition is still to come. Question: If Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were Avatars, or an Avatar, what or which Avatars or Avatar were they? 1. Avatar Sri Aurobindo has given clear definitions of the Avatar and Vibhuti on many occasions. For instance: “There are two sides of the phenomenon of Avatarhood, the Divine Consciousness and the instrumental personality. The Divine Consciousness... Aurobindo: Avatar The avatarhood of Sri Aurobindo has been put in doubt on several occasions. There seem to be two reasons for this, the first being that the claim to avatarhood by pseudo-spiritual persons has indeed become very cheap. As the discernment between spirituality, guruship and occult powers is generally vague among those who search for solace or spiritual theatrics, the word “avatar” has... “X seems to say that there is no way and no possibility of following [the example of the Avatar], that the struggles and sufferings of the Avatar are unreal and all humbug – there is no possibility of struggle for one who represents the Divine. Such a conception makes nonsense of the whole idea of Avatarhood; there is then no reason in it, no necessity in it, no meaning in it. The Divine being al ...
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