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The King has the Supramental Consciousness. He lives in immeasurable and blissful unity. He experiences a new and marvelous creation, rising out of the Spirit, where all are joined by spiritual links and all are the One. Matter is density of Spirit and substance is a resonant harp of Self. All that passes here lives immortal there.

The Traveller is nearing his goal, but he still feels the resistance of his inconscient base and the ignorant No in the origin of things. Something in his earthly being keeps its kinship with the inconscient. He searches Nature’s spaces in his being with heaven’s pure cleansing flame and tears out desire. A mighty transformation comes and his nature becomes a movement of the All. The Traveller King stands fulfilled on the worlds highest line and all grows still. A Universal Force awaits the Transcendent’s ultimate decree.

King Aswapathy has attained the consciousness of the infinite, eternal, sole Supreme Master. He has reached the silence of the Self, but only half God’s cosmic work is done. The Divine Mother can now reveal something of herself to his seeking soul, and once he has seen her he only wants to draw her presence and power into all of his being. He wants her healing touch for the suffering world. His soul is freed and given to her alone.

The Great Yogi-King reached the top of all that can be known, and finds it is not enough. Now he must pursue the Unknowable, He must have the realization of the infinite, eternal, Supreme Master of Creation along with the realization of the Divine Mother. The king reaches a height where he must make a tremendous choice; “All he had been and all towards which he grew must now be left behind or else transform into a self of That which has no name….The separate self must melt or be reborn into a Truth beyond the mind’s apeal”. Then the yogi-king can realize the One by whom all live, who lives by none.

King Aswapathy awakens in the colorless purity of his own soul. All once perceived and lived was far away. He had risen out of the sphere of Mind and he saw the undivided splendor of the Spirit in its complete unity of all things. This canto describes the overmind consciousness and Sri Aurobindo writes that the king scanned the secrets of the overmind. King Aswapathy’s finite parts approached their absolutes, his actions framed the movements of the Gods, his will took up the reigns of cosmic Force.

The great Yogi-King is called by a mysterious sound which is all sounds in turn and yet the same, and he enters a mystic passage to the deep heart of the world. There, where all is soul, he finds the silent soul of all the world, and he sees the fashioning chamber of the worlds where souls return to rest between births. Along a road of pure interior light his soul passes on towards the end which ever begins again. There he sees, for the first time in his long, long journey, the Divine Mother.

The Traveller is reaching the summit of the triple stairs of the Greater Mind. He sees the sovereign Kings of Thought whose thoughts are partners in the vast control of the commanding thoughts of the creator Self. With their abstract purity of godless sight they brought to mind what mind could never reach. This was the play of the bright gods of Thought, attracting into time the timeless Light. They have planned to snare the feet of Truth and keep her captive for the thinker’s joy. Sri Aurobindo shows us how each of us relates to Truth and how we each use Truth for our own purposes, but Truth is greater than her forms. She remains herself and infinite.

Sri Aurobindo describes the ascent into Greater Mind, starting with the first two levels of what he calls “a triple realm of ordered thought”. He describes the wardens who meet the heaven-bound soul, interpreters between man’s mind and God’s mind, and the Masters of Things Actual whose thoughts give form to Natures moods; the are the creators of matter by hid stress of mind; the beings who fill life with Thought’s immensities. Then he describes the subtle archangel race who live in the mind and know truth from within. Still, no mental power can receive the whole Truth of the Mighty Mother’s vast work of the creation of our universe.