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The Ladder of Consciousness

and the Work of Mahasaraswati

The consciousness is like a ladder: at each great epoch there
has been one great being capable of adding one more step to
the ladder and reaching a place where the ordinary conscious-
ness had never been. It is possible to attain a high level and
get completely out of the material consciousness; but then one
does not retain the ladder, whereas the great achievement of
the great epochs of the universe has been the capacity to add
one more step to the ladder without losing contact with the ma-
terial, the capacity to reach the Highest and at the same time
connect the top with the bottom instead of letting a kind of
emptiness cut off all connection between the different planes.
To go up and down and join the top to the bottom is the whole
secret of realisation, and that is the work of the Avatar. Each
time he adds one more step to the ladder there is a new creation
upon earth.... The step which is being added now Sri Aurobindo
has called the Supramental; as a result of it, the consciousness
will be able to enter the supramental world and yet retain its
personal form, its individualisation and then come down to es-
tablish here a new creation. Certainly this is not the last, for
there are farther ranges of being; but now we are at work to
bring down the supramental, to effect a reorganisation of the
world, to bring the world back to the true divine order. It is es-
sentially a creation of order, a putting of everything in its true
place; and the chief spirit or force, the Shakti active at present
is Mahasaraswati, the Goddess of perfect organisation.
CWM 3: 178-79 The Mother

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