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Foucault’s idea could hold a truth. The only c. And one is never neglected if caught hold
difference is that while Foucault has to go to by the Truth that is as much impersonal as
the outside of the outsides to access the void, it is personal, for the Grace is a dynamic
the mystic’s Void is all-inclusive. However if reality.
we consider three other principles, the balance
can shift: It is in the depths and ranges of the inner beings
that stand behind the surface personality,
a. The void need not be a real zero but a where the true meaning of life is concealed.
phenomenal nothingness as it surpasses Once accessed, they open up new vistas of
any cognitive grasp; yet it is dormant with consciousness, new perspectives of psychology,
teeming potentialities; new orientation to the meaning of life, new
paradigms of health and well-being.
b. There is not only a movement ‘outside the
outside’ but if the inner ranges of the being References
are developed, a movement to the inside
of insides. The crystal doors of these inner 1. Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,
planes open up as one surpasses the ego. Volume 2. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
There are ranges of the being behind the Trust; 2009, p. 223.
outer being and if developed and activated,
allows a journey inwards to seize the now 2. Foucault M. Essential Works, Volume 2. London:
hidden fountainhead of immortality. Penguin; 1994, pp. 154-6.

— Dr. Soumitra Basu

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