Not relevant to his own mighty synthesis

alan kazlev Says: November 28th, 2006 at 6:30 am From the SCIY article quoted by Tusar:

The Life Divine does not mention avatar

I didn’t realise this. But I looked up the index of my copy and to my astonishment the word “avatar” isn’t listed. But reference to the concept of avatar is found in talks and in letters to devotees. Although very interesting that Sri Aurobindo chose not to speak of this in LD. Perhaps he was only talking to his disciples and devotees with language and concepts they would understand, but which are not relevant to his own mighty synthesis.


Edward Berge Says: December 1st, 2006 at 3:42 pm Per Aurobindo:

“But the Divine is in his essence infinite and his manifestation too is multitudinously infinite. If that is so, it is not likely that our true integral perfection in being and in nature can come by one kind of realisation alone; it must combine many different strands of divine experience. It cannot be reached by the exclusive pursuit of a single line of identity till that is raised to its absolute; it must harmonise many aspects of the Infinite. An integral consciousness with a multiform dynamic experience is essential for the complete transformation of our nature.” — The Synthesis of Yoga, p.114