157.-158.
157 – Thus said Ramakrishna and thus said Vivekananda. Yes, but let me know also the truths which the Avatar cast not forth into speech and the prophet has omitted from his teachings. There will always be more in God than the thought of man has ever conceived or the tongue of man has ever uttered.
158 – What was Ramakrishna? God manifest in a human being; but behind there is God in His infinite impersonality and His universal Personality. And what was Vivekananda? A radiant glance from the eye of Shiva; but behind him is the divine gaze from which he came and Shiva himself and Brahma and Vishnu and OM all-exceeding.
Will the Avatars still need to take birth on earth once the supramental consciousness is firmly established?
This question will be easier to answer when the supermind is manifested in living beings on earth.
I had always heard that Sri Aurobindo was “the last Avatar”; but he is probably the last Avatar in a human body— afterwards, we do not know....
23 September 1969