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greed emanating from a materialistic world- (5)”, which corroborates with the concept of a
view that denies any role of a personal growth primitive RNA world where life-forms could
in terms of consciousness can be responsible exist as individual entities without any species.
for creating a conducive backdrop to the
pandemic. All this might be true. There is also The virus is thus a primitive player who has
another perspective worth understanding. witnessed the unravelling of the evolutionary
process that culminated in the human being.
We know that it is an occult fact that at any And therefore it is the virus which is going
level of life and at any plane of consciousness, to oppose any shift of status of the cell to a
any positive movement is initially opposed by new denouement.
negative forces. It is as if they have been decreed
to oppose! As Sri Aurobindo described: That shift of status of the cell is exactly the
need of the hour as the world is preparing
“To this world’s inconscient Power Thou hast for a transformational change initiated by Sri
given the right Aurobindo and the Mother. And that change
To oppose the shining passage of my soul: which is to herald the appearance of a new
She levies on each step the tax of Night. species of human beings is to start from the
Doom, her unjust accountant, keeps the roll (2)”. transformation of the cells. The new creation
in consciousness that is going to manifest will
Now this opposition by the adverse forces, be programmed in the cells. It is exactly for
represented by the virus of the present pandemic, that purpose that the Mother had to pursue
a
is specifically directed at the cell, as we know her great sadhana in the matrix of the cellular
a
that the virus which is non-living enters a cell consciousness.
to become living and replicate itself.
In fact, cancer itself is also a phenomenon of
Sri Aurobindo was well aware of the primacy opposition to the cell’s status. Cancer involves
of the virus. In Book 2, Canto 4 of Savitri, abnormal cell growth. But the virus is one
Aswapati comes to view the evolutionary step ahead of cancer in its opposition to the
trajectory initiated when Life animated Matter. change of status of the cell that must now be
As a result living forms began to emerge prepared for the great transformation. This is
from what so long was the matrix of the because cancer spreads to other parts of the
Inconscience — “the dim gulf of things (3).” body but is not contagious while the viral
pandemic is horrendously contagious. This
The most primitive forms were “Existences is significant as the phenomenon of contagion
half-real and half-dream (4).” How true! We is to be worked at a higher denouement in
still consider viruses to represent the grey the saga of transformation.
area between living and non-living as they
cannot replicate on their own but can do so The Mother described that while all past
when they are lodged in living cells and yet spiritual perspectives considered that a
are fundamental players in civilisation as conscious divine life was not possible with
pandemics show. Sri Aurobindo describes that the body, Sri Aurobindo did not think so. On
“Beings were born who perished without trace the contrary, He believed that the body could

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