When Pavitra was guided into meditation by Sri Aurobindo, practising the separation of Purusha from Prakriti, aspiring for his personal liberation, Mukti, he got the descent of the Divine Power from above, and all his meditation changed; it got centered on it and he became more receptive, more open to it. In this process, he asked Sri Aurobindo about the completion of what he started to do: the separation of Purusha from Prakriti and his final liberation. Sri Aurobindo answered that it was surely going to happen, but was not important anymore, for the Shakti was already working in this ādhāra, the ready support, and she knew better what to do and how to do it.

This Shakti is of the nature of Ishwara-Shakti, where the separation of Purusha and Prakriti is no more an issue. In fact the whole Vedic tradition is based on this Ishwarakoti power, where the realization of the Self was seen in the context of manifestation and not as separation from it. The idea of liberation, Mukti, as we know it now, is a later idea. In the view of a Vedic scholar it cannot be sanctioned by the Divine Shakti; therefore we have only few liberated souls, and mainly Avatars and Vibhutis, who had something else to accomplish in the world.

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