With the release of the soul and the freedom of the spirit, Aswapati is now set on the Yoga of the Universe, Vishwa Yoga. If this is to be taken as an autobiographical description, Sri Aurobindo represented by Aswapati, then we could understand how rapidly, on the wings of an eagle, his yoga-tapasya was moving. At the beginning of the 1900s when Sri Aurobindo was in Baroda he wanted to acquire power to win freedom for his country. He started with long hours of Pranayama. Soon, in 1908, he had two major spiritual experiences, of the silent Brahman and the all-pervasive dynamic Brahman, things which take lives to have them. Similarly, by 1911 the Mother also had the knowledge of the Supermind and the necessity of it operating in the evolutionary process. This was the Yoga of Ascent and it was done, so to say, in no time. The entire effort of their life now lay in doing the Yoga of Descent. We may say that it is the Yoga of Ascent which is presented in the Book of the Traveller of the Worlds. The Yoga of Descent is what we have in the Book of the Divine Mother, it marking its beginning. While the Yoga of Ascent is echoed in the Vedic phrase “the ascending slope of heaven, ārodhanam divah” to reach the place where the riches are, Aswapati’s Ascent is of quite a different kind, and of it he has the intuition right from the beginning. The Yoga of Ascent is a preparation for the Yoga of Descent.

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