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"Forerunners of a Divine Multitude" · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In his epic poem Savitri, a Legend and a Symbol,
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  Shriorobindo describes a birth and an awakening of individuals
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  who are prepared to play a role in the advent of a new
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  consciousness that has the power to transform life on earth,
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  uplift human understanding, and usher in an age of harmony and
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  mutuality. Quote I saw the omnipotence
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  flaming pioneers over the heavenly verge which turns
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  towards life, come crowding down the amber stairs of birth,
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  forerunners of a divine multitude out of the paths of
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  the morning star they came into the little room of mortal life.
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  I saw them cross the twilight of an age, the sun eyed children of
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  a marvelous dawn, The great creators with wide brows of
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  calm, the massive barrier Breakers of the world and
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  wrestlers with destiny in her lists of will.
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  The laborers in the quarries of the gods, the messengers of the
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  incommunicable, the architects of immortality.
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  Into the fallen human sphere they came.
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  Faces that wore the immortals glory still, voices that commune
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  still with the thoughts of God. Bodies made beautiful by the
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  spirit's light carrying the magic word, the Mystic fire
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  carrying the Dionysian cup of joy.
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  Approaching eyes of a diviner man, lips chanting an unknown
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  anthem of the soul. Feet echoing in the corridors of
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  time. High priests of wisdom,
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  sweetness, might and bliss, discoverers of beauty, sunlit
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  ways and swimmers of loves, laughing.
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  Fiery floods and dancers within rapture's golden doors.
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  Their tread one day shall change the suffering earth and justify
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  the light on nature's face. End Quote.
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  Book 3 Can't of four pages 343 to 3:44.
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  These forerunners of a divine multitude are those individuals
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  all around the world who have begun to awaken to the need, the
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  possibility and the reality of the advent of a new
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  consciousness that can transform our lives and bring harmony to
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  humanity and balance our relationship to the planet, the
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  environment, and the other beings with whom we share the
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  planet. They do not come from any
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  particular religion, philosophy, country or group.
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  They are individuals who are beginning to manifest the growth
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  beyond the limits of the body, life, mind framework that has
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  defined our lives since humanity first developed on the Earth.
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  They recognize that it is time for the next phase of the
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  evolution of consciousness to take place, and they are
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  aspiring for and striving to be receptive to the new
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  consciousness that is taking up the challenges of the imbalances
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  and disharmonies that our vital mental focus have created.
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  These individuals view the dire situation of the world and
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  consciously take up the challenges and face every issue,
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  every difficulty, every obstruction and every delay.
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  They are not blind to the realities of the world, but they
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  also see that a new force is at work, a force that can move us
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  beyond the fighting, the disputing and the gridlock, the
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  mother notes quote. Certain ideas of a more general
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  nature, of a wider, perhaps more collective kind, are being
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  worked out and are acting in the world, and both things go
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  together. A possibility of a greater and
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  more total destruction, a reckless inventiveness which
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  increases the possibility of catastrophe, a catastrophe which
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  would be on a far greater scale than it has ever been.
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  And at the same time, the birth, or rather the manifestation of
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  much higher and more comprehensive ideas and acts of
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  will which, when they are heard, will bring a wider vaster, more
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  complete, more perfect remedy than before.
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  This struggle, this conflict between the constructive forces
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  of the ascending evolution, of a more and more perfect and divine
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  realization, and the more and more destructive, powerfully
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  destructive forces, forces that are mad beyond all control, is
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  more and more obvious, marked, visible, and it is a kind of
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  race or struggle as to which we'll reach the goal first.
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  It would seem that all the adverse anti divine forces, the
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  forces of the vital world, have descended on the earth are
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  making use of it as their field of action, and that at the same
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  time a new, higher, more powerful spiritual force has
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  also descended on earth to bring it a new life.
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  This makes the struggle more acute, more violent, more
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  visible, but it seems also more definitive, and that is why we
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  can hope to reach an early solution.
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  This opens up roads of realization into the future
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  possibilities which are already foreseen when an entire part of
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  humanity, the one which is open consciously or unconsciously to
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  the new forces, is lifted up, as it were, into a higher, more
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  harmonious, more perfect life. Even if individual
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  transformation is not always permissible or possible, there
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  will be a kind of general uplifting, a harmonization of
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  the whole, which will make it possible for a new order, a new
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  harmony, to be established, and for the anguish of the present
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  disorder and struggle to disappear and be replaced by an
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  order which will allow a harmonious functioning of the
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  whole. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter
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  6. Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary
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  Forces, pages 153 to 154.