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FOUR AIDS BY SRI AUROBINDO

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Human Intermediary

FOUR AIDS BY SRI AUROBINDO

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Human intermediary -
Ishta Devata, the Avatar and the The spiritual progress of most human beings
Guru demands an extraneous support, an object of
faith outside us. It needs an external image
ApÝep[ÐdL$ rhL$pk dpV¡$ S>ê$fu dp“h-
õhê$‘“u L$X$uAp¡ : of God; or it needs a human representative,
— Incarnation, Prophet or Guru; or it
Cô$ v$¡hsp, Ahspf, Nyfy demands both and receives them.
By the Ishta Devata, the chosen deity, is meant,- not some inferior
Power, but a name and form of the transcendent and universal
Godhead. ....

Even then his nature calls for a human intermediary so that he may
feel the Divine in something entirely close to his own humanity
and sensible in a human influence and example. This call is satisfied by the
Divine manifest in a human appearance, the Incarnation, the Avatar- Krishna,
Christ, Buddha. Or if this is too hard for him to conceive, the Divine represents
himself through a less marvellous intermediary,- Prophet or Teacher. ....

This also is not enough; a living influence, a living example, a


present instruction is needed. For it is only the few who can make
the past Teacher and his teaching, the past Incarnation and his example and
influence a living force in their lives. For this need also the Hindu discipline
provides in the relation of the Guru and the disciple.
Sri Aurobindo
The Synthesis of Yoga
Ch-1, p:65-66

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