Chapter 14The Mother, Sri Aurobindo and the Supramental · The Triple Transformation and Control over Death

Since you and the Mother were on earth constantly from the beginning what was the need for Avataras coming down here one after another?

We were not on earth as Avataras.

15 December 1935

* You say that you both were not on earth as Avatars and yet you were carrying on the evolution. Since the Divine Himself was on the earth carrying on the evolution, what was the necessity for the coming down of the Avatars who are portions of Himself?

The Avatar is necessary when a special work is to be done and in crises of the evolution. The Avatar is a special manifestation, while for the rest of the time it is the Divine working within the ordinary human limits as a Vibhuti.

18 December 1935 Is there really any difference between the Guru, the Divine and the Truth in our Yoga? I have been considering that the Mother and yourself are not only the Gurus but also the Divine, and that whatever either of you say is the law of the Truth. Why then are you using these three different words?3 I wrote the general law of spiritual life and obedience. You have to know that as well as its special application here. Moreover they do not follow her commands. Others do not really regard her as Divine — they treat her as if she were an ordinary Guru.

13 June 1933

* Yesterday you spoke about the Mother’s commands. What are they? I want to try to follow them.

3 See letter of 12 June 1933, published on page 672 of Letters on Himself and the Ashram, volume 35 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO. — Ed.