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The Traveller starts his descent into Night to learn the secret of Life’s wide world-failure. He looked behind Nature’s visible face and the veil was rent that covers Natures depths. He saw the fount of the world’s lasting pain and the fatal whispers of grey carved Mask of Night. He saw Life’s beauty and her gold sunlight, but saw too the dreadful Powers that drive her moods. Sri Aurobindo tells u...

The Traveller of the worlds is ready to leave the Greater Life. Here Life cannot stop creating but she is not able to fulfill her real purpose. In this kingdom Life lacks the wisdom that sets the spirit free even though the beings in the Kingdom of the Greater Life have achieved something of the life of the soul. The wide soul of the Traveller-King asks a deeper joy than Life can give here. He mov...

The King follows in Life’s fine and mighty trails, seeking to learn the secret of her soul. All he became that she was or longed to be. A witness overmastered by his scene, he admired her splendid front of pomp and play and her rich and delicate craft. He thrilled to the insistance of her cry. He bore her might, felt her will, her hands of fate, her touch that moves and her power that sei4ze and d...

The King travels through the region where beings are what we strive to be. They follow their inner law and wage war either for heaven or for hell. Whatever fate may do to them they have earned. Something they have done, something they have been, they live. There matter is the soul’s result, not its cause .Being felt being even when afar and consciousness replied to consciousness, yet the ultimate...

The Mother and Divine Creatrix, who is the Greater Life and builds and inspires the Greater Life, does everything only to attract and keep her eternal Lover, the Master of Existence. Here Sri Aurobindo calls her ‘this Greatness”. On earth, in heaven, in hell she is the same; of every fate she takes her mighty part. Time is her road of endless pilgrimage. This Greatness creates a larger world of gr...

The Traveller entered the very first manifestation of the worlds of the Greater Life. The Greater Life first emerged as a magic place of dreams and hopes and promises of charm and delight which never yet become true. Then came the Kingdom of The Morning Star and the throb of promise of a greater life and something seemed to be achieved at last. This realm inspires us with our vaster hopes. All tha...

The Traveller is moving towards the end of the little life and Sri Aurobindo speaks of the greater future that awaits when our soul awakens and we learn at last who lives unseen within us. The Little Life is only a provisional scheme; A false appearance sketched by a limiting mind and sense. When the Traveller first came to the Godheads of the Little Life, he plunged his gaze into the sea of mist...

Sri Aurobindo describes our little life today when we live only for ourselves, wanting only outward things, while our immortal soul, our psychic being sleeps unknown and unfelt within us. As long as the intellect’s outward gazing sight serves earthly interest and creative joys, an incurable littleness pursues our days. The mind learns and knows not, turning its back to truth. Our souls are moved b...

Sri Aurobindo gives us an experience of the creation of the Cosmos from the time Spirit became Matter. A mass phenomenon of visible shapes appeared in the eternal Consciousness. Being was an inert substance driven by Force. God sits, unknown, behind everything and, slowly, very slowly, as life was born in matter, helpless and indistinct came pleasure and pain, trembling with the first faint thrill...

The Traveller of the Worlds sees the vital forces which move the small beings in the Kingdom of the Little Worlds to live only for themselves and their own small wants and needs, and which makes them hurt others and destroy others’ lives to get what they want for themselves. In this Canto Sri Aurobindo makes it clear that these forces are the same ones which drive our human hearts wherever love an...

The King is observing the third creation that rises in the stages of the evolution of Life as it is developing in early beings whose small existence and petty state resemble our human days, but are fixed to eternity as a changeless type. We see a third creation arise as the dim, obscure mind power is pressed by a seeing Power to fashion the primitive pattern of the thoughts of man. This small crea...

King Aswapathy now sees the rise of strange creations of a thinking sense as he follows Life’s rise from inconscient sleep in matter. A seeking Power found out its road to form. The force of creation, working by the light of Ignorance, began her animal experiment. Beings were there who wore a human form but identified only with the body and worked only for outward wants. They turned in grooves of...

The Yogi-King Aswapathy can see the purpose of the works of time in the very beginning of life’s slow rise out of the inconscience of matter. He can see her ascension towards consciousness from the inconscient torpor of her sleep in matter because of his developed spiritual sight. Impure and degraded though life’s motions are here, a heaven-truth always broods in life’s deeps. The phantom of this...

King Aswapathy, the great yogi, is traveling through the worlds to learn about life’s fall. She came to bring her glory but her plunge was into matter’s inconscience and from there she has to rise. Her need to find her true self again is joined to the hunger of earth. “In the heart she kindled a fire of passion and need. The inert cell awoke with her yearning,” The king sees life in her most falle...

The great Yogi King continues to have the vision of Life, complete, eternal, blissful and immortal. She is fulfilled in all she is and does. But even with all of his yogic attainments, King Aswapathy cannot enter into Life’s glory. His nature lives too near suffering worlds and he is still bound by his individual thoughts and the dimness of his vision. Then Sri Aurobindo describes Life’s fall when...

Sri Aurobindo gives us life’s full glory in worlds which are halfway to heaven, but tells us that heaven’s joys cannot be earth’s because earth is not pure and she has stabled her dreams in matter’s courts. King Aswapathy continues to live these high experiences in vision. “Only to be was a supreme delight, life was a happy laughter of the soul and Joy was king with Love for minister.”

Answering a greater Nature’s troubled call, King Aswapathy ascends out of the Kingdom of Subtle Matter into the next world on the World Stair. He crosses the limits of embodied mind and arrives in a place where Life is free to go everywhere, do everything and be everything. But Life is unsatisfied and unsure of its end here, and the king finds nothing to satisfy his heart. While he walks on uncert...

King Aswapathy is moving through the Subtle Physical plane, the first step on the World Stair. His senses are ravished with delight and the king enjoys that fine material paradise, but its limitations can not hold him long. His destiny lay beyond this finer world, which is closest to our material existence. His spirit wants more than being’s surfaces. It turned to hidden powers and deeper states,...

King Aswapathy is in the first inner world as he climbs the World Stair; The Kingdom Of Subtle Matter. Mother refers to this as ‘the subtle physical’. Our own subtle physical is right outside our skin and extends a long way beyond our physical body. Mother often speaks of her experiences in the subtle physical. In this part of the canto Sri Aurobindo speaks of how our material, physical plane of c...

King Aswapathy is climbing Nature’s Giant Stair and the first place he comes to is the Kingdom of Subtle Matter This is the plane in the creation which Mother and Sri Aurobindo usually call The Subtle Physical. It is the world closest to the physical, material world in which we live every day. This world is the place where the soul first “touches ground” when it returns from its rest between lives...

The great yogi-king Aswapathy starts on his inner journey through the planes and parts of his own being, which are also the planes and parts of the Creation itself. He is on his way to creation’s centre to find the Divine Mother and ask her help for humanity and the world. In Book I, he reached place where the heights of mortal effort end, and he received what he needed to be able to travel on. No...