Invocation 08 - Auroville

his greatest illusion is the one which is spelled G.O.D... That is his greatest
illusion, and immediately Death goes on to say:
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To fill the void around he feels and dreads,
The void he came from and to which he goes,
He magnifies his self and names it God.
Children suddenly wake up in the middle of the night, the parents are nowhere
near... (Indian parents are always there, but in western countries, right
from the early childhood, the child is made to feel independent. He sleeps in
a room of his own.) He gets up at night and there is nobody. There is a
thunderstorm, he feels scared by the fluttering of a curtain... then what does
the child do? The child looks at the doll which he sleeps with, there is always
a doll, some stuffed toy, and this stuffed toy gives the child a certain
psychological relation, some kind of courage; he starts petting the toy, and
then goes to sleep. We are exactly like that. When we wake up in the middle
of our life without finding any mummy or daddy that we can call to, we need
a toy, we need a doll. The name of that doll is God. God is this doll that you
have made, God is this illusion you have armed yourself with:
To fill the void around he feels and dreads,
The void he came from and to which he goes,
He magnifies his self and names it God.
He calls the heavens to help his suffering hopes.
He sees above him with a longing heart
Bare spaces more unconscious than himself
That have not even his privilege of mind,
And empty of all but their unreal blue,
And peoples them with bright and merciful powers. (p. 586-87)
When man is in trouble, he goes down on his knees, raises his hands, looks
at the sky, without realising that in the entire creation there is no creature
more intelligent than he! There is nothing there, it is only empty. Up there,
above, there is the blue of the sky, and the scientist will tell you that the blue
of the sky is also unreal. And this is man, he believes that God is sitting there
ready to help... rescue party, first aid party etc... There is nobody there. So
he says, "These are the various illusions with which you have grown up,
Savitri, but you can't take me in, I have created this world out of the