Invocation 08 - Auroville

aspects Sri Aurobindo does not emphasize. Here he emphasizes another
aspect, which is of Yama as the power which resists the manifestation of
the Divine.
Here Yama represents the rock-most bottom of the inconscient. But as
we know, beneath this rock-most bottom, the bottommost part of the
inconscient, there is the superconscient - but Yama has not yet realised this.
As we will see in the succeeding cantos and books, there is a very very
interesting development here. As Savitri proceeds, confronting the God of
Death, the God of Death is made to realise himself, and for the first time he
is being given an opportunity to realise his true self. Under Savitri's grace as
it were, the God of Death realises he is really the God of Love masquerading
as the God of Death. In other words, Death has really no essential reality.
Behind it there is some other truth.
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