Aurobindo and the Divine

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><elguapo_marco_2008 wrote:

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> After reading the history, how interesting that it fell on the

> revolutionary/mystic Sri Aurobindo's Birthday.

 

True Marco. In fact, as you know Aurobindo was a great revolutionary

too, and it was in Jail that he first got visions of the Divine. This

story is very inspirational, and I would like to share it with everyone.

 

Aurobindo(or Arvind in Sanskrit) was arrested for smuggling weapons to

Revolutionaries. It was a automatic death sentence at the time. He was

very worried in jail, when he had a vision.

 

As he was walking in the garden, a tree there turned into Krishna.

Soon all the guards and prisoners turnt into Krishna. Even the bars on

his prison were Krishna. "Why are you worried, for it is me

everywhere", the Lord said.

 

(It must be noted Arvind wasn't a fanatic Vaishnav- he worshipped

Krishna, but as the highest Divine force, not in the narrow sectarian

manner that some people do in India).

 

When he was taken to Court, another vision ocuured. The Prosecutor,

Judge, all the lawyers, turnt into Krishna. Krishna said to him "Now

do you understand? I descend into all Human beings, and guide their

actions. All actions are actually done by me, it is only ignorant

people who think they are the doers. Now are you afraid? What for? For

it is all a game- I am in all and all in me".

 

Then Krishna continued "It is not my wish you should goto jail- I

have bigger plans for you". Then Krishna showed him that India would

become independent anyway. "Why do you think you are doing anything-

even if you were to die, stronger people than you are there to fight

for freedom. For I have already decided about Indias freedom, and

those who oppose it oppose my Will, while those who support it have my

full Shakti behind them. So follow your own Swadharma"

 

Within a year, the case against Arvind mysteriously dropped, even

though he had supposedly caught red handed. But the police werent

ready to give up- they were planning to arrest him on some other

charges. But everytime they went to arrest him, he had mysteriously

dissapeared. A voice in his ear warned him when the police was about

to raid, and he was always one step ahead of them.

 

Finally, Sri Aurobindo settled in Pondicherry, a French colony, where

British couldnt arrest him. An intersting thing I read was that the

place where he settled was the same place that Rishi Augstya had made

his Ashram several 1000s years ago. Rishi Augstya founded the Sri

Vidya Shakta sect, one of largest Shakta sects on India. Even though

he wasnt aware of it, the place must have had some positive energies

that drew Arvind to that exact place.