Beyond Death

Man is mortal¶, but for the time being. The Earth is a field of Evolution and, according to Sri Aurobindo, Man is a transitional being. Not always was there Life's manifestation on earth, nor was there always the display and Manifestation of Mind here on earth. However Life and Mind have manifested themselves on earth. These are the parts of the Divine Manifestation. Man has come into being here to manifest the Divine.

As has been said, Man is a ‘transitional being' and he is not a final form of existence in the evolutionary show of the Divine Manifestation. He is a mental living being - in him, in his material body, life and mind have expressed themselves, as needed by Evolution. But Evolution has to make long, very long journey, and whatever is a dream for Man today, even the fairy-tale of immortality, will become physically true in him tomorrow or the next time.

In Science and even in our commonsense, we have not seen beyond the mortal imperfect Man. Is then man the final word in Evolution, in the entire Manifestation? It cannot be so. How can something so incomplete, so imperfect, so ignorant and incapable, and so much enslaved to Death such as man be the last thing in the Divine Manifestation, in the Divine Creation?

In spite of his incompleteness and imperfection, in spite of all his sorrows and sufferings and in spite of the overshadowing Death, Man is a Dreamer and is inspired by his Hopes! They are the Divine's Blessings for him. But will the Dreams and Hopes of Mankind always fail? Will not his Dream of surpassing and conquering Death ever become true? He has to know himself, surpass himself and strive towards Perfection and towards conquering Death.

Out of man, the superman will emerge, as Sri Aurobindo and The Mother have said. That is the goal of this Manifestation. That is purpose and goal of the Supernature, or else men would not have evolved beyond the Homo Sapiens, nor would have been there any progress in human consciousness today on earth. Man will surpass the limits of mind and reason, scale newer and higher heights of Consciousness and ascend to Gnosis, the Supramental Consciousness, and bring in the supramental race on the earth scene. Man will conquer his mortality. This is the Truth Sri Aurobindo has brought for us. We live for this Goal, this Truth, according to Sri Aurobindo.  

In Man and on earth, the Descent of the Supramental Consciousness is The New to come. Conquest of Death is the New Task and Goal before Man.

Let us find what Sri Aurobindo has said:

A mightier race shall inhabit the mortal man's world.
On Nature's luminous tops, on the Spirit's ground,
The superman shall reign king of life,
Make earth almost the mate and peer of heaven
And lead toward God and truth man's ignorant earth
And lift towards godhead his mortality.
[Sri Aurobindo: Savitri]

Sri Aurobindo has further said:
Man is a transitional being; he is not final....The Step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in earth's evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process.[The Hour of God, page 7]

The Mother has said:

The deathless state is what can be envisaged for the human physical body in the future: it is constant rebirth. Instead of again tumbling backwards and falling apart due to a lack of plasticity and incapacity to adapt to the universal movement, the body is undone 'futurewards,' as it were.

There is one element that remains fixed: for each type of atom, the inner organization of the elements is different, which is what creates the difference in their substance. So perhaps similarly, each individual has a different, particular way of organizing the cells of his body, and it is this particular way that persists through all the outer changes. All the rest is undone and redone, but undone in a forward thrust towards the new instead of collapsing backwards into death, and redone in a constant aspiration to follow the progressive movement of the divine Truth. [25-11-1959]

Sri Aurobindo said:

Even there shall come as a high crown of all

The End of Death, the death of Ignorance.

[Savitri]

 He has further said:

And yet I know my footprints' track shall be

A pathway to Immortality.

[Last Poems, Sri Aurobindo]

Thus, it is seen that the human mortality is NOT a final and absolute truth. The end of Death shall come on earth. And definitely, it will be possible only when the Supramental will descend on earth - and The Mother had declared that the Supramental descended on earth on the 29^th February 1956. And the Supramental is definitely a NEW CONSCIOUSNESS to descend and manifest on earth.

Barin Chaki

15-11-2007

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Barin Chaki
15-11-2007