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Namah The two paths

sleeping tracts, slumbering cells, latent a greater mysticism will see God invade
neurons, evolving tissues that are to embody Nature and turn this largely animal body
a greater possibility. But they need to be through the human passage into a divine
activated rather than dulled and stifled due body. That is the evolutionary labour
to our misplaced belief in the omnipotence whose real purpose and significance we
of outer remedies. miss while observing the phenomenon but
not its secret cause.
The needed shift
Let us close then with this thought of evolution
It would require a massive shift, a reorientation carrying the body still further towards its
of our life from a blind and near total dependence inevitable destiny. What hides within matter
upon outer means to an exploration and must eventually emerge fully. And if, as the
activation of inner means to heal, the surface mystic experience behind the screen of Matter
to the depths, from the gross to the sublime, there is the hidden God, then one day He
from the apparent to the real, from the shall surely emerge from behind the veil that
present actual to the future potential. The He has woven, and this world manifest the
future of man however depends upon secret Divine:
whether we can take that shift or not. We
are being pushed in that direction but the “I passed into a lucent still abode
commercial interests of a few are preventing And saw as in a mirror crystalline
us from taking the shift. It is substituting An ancient Force ascending serpentine
courage and faith with fear and anxiety, The unhasting spirals of the aeonic road.
rushing us unthinkingly towards the old Earth was a cradle for the arriving god
habitual steps though they may eventually And man but a half-dark half-luminous sign
lead us to the abyss. But there are a few, a Of the transition of the veiled Divine
few who are everywhere who are quietly From Matter’s sleep and the tormented load
shedding the burden of the past and slowly
entering through the doors of the future. Of ignorant life and death to the Spirit’s light.
It is these few, far from the loud blare and Mind liberated swam Light’s ocean vast,
glare of the world who are the hope for And life escaped from its grey tortured line;
the future. I saw Matter illumining its parent Night.
The soul could feel into infinity cast
This future possibility has been witnessed Timeless God-bliss the heart incarnadine (1).”
by mystics. Even if we regard them as a
freak of nature, yet these first freaks are the Reference
outbreaks from behind the veil of something
that is likely to generalise itself. The mystic 1. Sri Aurobindo. Birth Centenary Library, Volume
experience is an experiment of Nature to 5. Pondicherry: Sri Aurbindo Ashram Trust;
climb beyond herself to meet her Lord. But 1971, p. 157.

Dr. Alok Pandey, an editor of NAMAH and a member of SAIIIHR, is a doctor practising at the
Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

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