A few persons have said that Sri Aurobindo was the ninth Avatar of Vishnu. And it is also further claimed by them that He has again been reborn in the year 1963 and is the Tenth Avatar of Vishnu.These claims are not true.
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother have never and nowhere stated that He was an Avatar of Vishnu. As The Mother has stated, Sri Aurobindo is an emanation of the Supreme. Vishnu is an aspect of the Supreme, according to the Indian mythology.Sri Aurobindo has written about the Ten Avatars and has given His view which is very much clear and reasonable and in accordance with His Teaching. According to Him, the Buddha was the ninth Avatar, as it is usually accepted. And Kalki is, as usual, the tenth Avatar...
And Sri Aurobindo has never described in the discussion above or elsewhere that He is one among the Ten Avatars as mentioned in the Indian mythology. In the Ten Avatars, let us remember, the name of Krishna is not there, though Krishna’s elder brother Balarāma is enumerated there. Though, He is definitely an Avatar, whose words have created the Gita. Similarly, Sri Aurobindo need not be in the series of the Ten Avatars. Sri Aurobindo Himself admits Kalki, who is yet to come and is regarded as the Tenth Avatar.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Avatar-hood is of an extra-ordinary and final importance, as the purpose of his Advent on earth is the transformation of the humanity, the transcendence of the human race.
The sole aim of the Evolution, now, is to go beyond the human race. A new Race, the Supramental Race is now the Task and the Aim. The Supramental Consciousness, which has descended already on 29-2-1956, is now active and it is now the Divine Will.
And Sri Aurobindo is with us till His work is done. Has not the Mother said on 7th December 1950 that He will be with us till His Work, the Work of the Supramental Creation and Transformation, is done? ...
Sri Aurobindo has categorically told The Mother, as declared by Her, that he will return as the first supramental being in a supramental body. He is not to return as human being any more. The Mother said on 11 April 1952: When I asked Him ( December 8, 1950) to resuscitate his body, He clearly answered:
“I left this body purposely. I will not take it back. I shall manifest again in the first supramental body built in the supramental way.”
Hence, we will exhibit our disbelief in The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, if we think and profess that He is reborn again in 1963, or at any other time, as a human being and as the tenth Avatar. The Mother has declared that She had spent time with Sri Aurobindo in the subtle physical on the 21st December 1969 and on many other days. She had never declared that He is born again as a human being or in a human body.
Mankind should, in all humility and with all reverence, wait for His return in the first supramental body built in the supramental way. The Time depends, greatly, on mankind; the humanity should be ready for the change.
Barindranath Chaki 27-6-2008 Posted By Barindranath Chaki to All choice at 6/27/2008 05:09:00 AM
scribblingpad: Why KRISHNA is not there?
Reply barin chaki: Shrikrishnastu bhagavaan swayam — that is the answer.
Aurobindo defined an Avatar as one who does evolutionary work.He brings in a new type of consciousness into the earth plane.It is on this basis he accepts Rama and Krishna as Avatars.Rama brought mental consciousness and created an ethical society in what was previously a tamaso-rajasic society.Krishna on the other hand is the Avatar of the Overmental Consciousness.He opened up the possibility of supramental descent,by establishing the Overmind firmly on the earth. The Buddha on the other hand only brought about a cessation of consciousness,dissolution in Void,Nirvana and therefore he cannot be considered an Avatar.In the Aurobindonian context,we must reject him as an Avatar.Aurobindo himself worked for the establishment of the Supramental Consciousness on the earth plane.So he must be considered an Avatar on the basis of his own definition of what constitutes an Avatar.Thus Aurobindo is the 9th Avatar(Supramental),Krishna being the 8th(Overmental) and Rama being the 7th(Mental).
ReplyDeleteAs for Kalki,Aurobindo said he is going to come to correct the error of Buddha.Buddha's error was the separation of spirit and matter.Supermind is the Truth-Conscious which unites all apparently contradictory things.The Supramental Body makes possible Conscious Light in Matter.It is the expression of Divinity on Earth,the presence of Spirit in Matter.The supramental species is not escapist but is very much present on this earth to work out the divine plan on this planet.
Thus clearly the very first Being in the Supramental Body,Aurobindo himself,qualifies to be the Kalki Avatar.
Aurobindo writes:
ReplyDelete"Krishna, Buddha and Kalki depict the last three stages, the stages of the spiritual development – Krishna opens the possibility of overmind, Buddha tries to shoot beyond to the supreme liberation but that liberation is still negative, not returning upon earth to complete positively the evolution; Kalki is to correct this by bringing the Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroying the opposing Asura forces. The progression is striking and unmistakable."
The above comment is sufficient reason for Aurobindo-ites to reject Buddha as an Avatar of Vishnu.He did not return upon earth *to complete positively the evoltion.* We have therefore Rama,Krishna and Aurobindo as the 7th(Mental) , 8th(Overmental) and 9th (Supramental) Avatars.Each of the Three Planes are one above the other and the *sequence is logical.*
"And Sri Aurobindo has never described in the discussion above or elsewhere that He is one among the Ten Avatars as mentioned in the Indian mythology."
I think this idea of deciding avatarhood on the basis of proclamation is quite wrong.Avatars are known by the kind of WORK they do,namely evolutionary work. Aurobindo did it,so he is an Avatar.
If we go by proclamation,then there are very many avatars,right here,today.Bangalore itself boasts of two Kalki Avatars.Plus many others as well.We don't decide that way.
Aurobindo has let His WORK speak for Himself.And that is enough evidence.
"The Mother has declared that She had spent time with Sri Aurobindo in the subtle physical on the 21st December 1969 and on many other days."
The fact that The Mother saw him in the subtle plane does not mean he was not born in this world in the Supramental Body. The Mother has said Aurobindo is Shiva himself.The great Archangels like him can exist simultaneously in many planes. The fact that he is present in the earth does not mean he is not present in Shivaloka with Shakthi.
"She had never declared that He is born again as a human being or in a human body."
The Mother has recorded in the Temple the exact month and year of his re-birth in a Supramental Body.