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Namah Vol. 26, Issue 4, 15th January 2019

the events leading to the war from dynamics Etman needs a transcendence of the ego and
arising from the past, they could be its usual instrumentation. That is precisely
understood as upheavals induced by the why psychology is incomplete without a
pressure of the new idea that was to be born, metaphysical base.
“The immediate cause seems to lie in an attempt
at vindicating some mentally conceived ideal of While it is justifiable to find some motivation
social justice, but in reality it is the pressure of or the other to explain the genesis of any
a new idea to be born that works from behind, experience, it is not possible to do that for a
and its birth-throes assume the character of a new idea appearing from the unborn Future.
cataclysm sweeping away everything before Mystical insight that works through supra-
it (5).” This means that an experience need rational means, like intuition, confirms that
not always be analysed from the past but such a new idea arises from motiveless Bliss
can also be interpreted from a futuristic — from the sheer joy of spontaneity, a reason
standpoint. Such a futuristic vision needs why it is essentially irreducible.
to be poised in a supra-cognitive status of
consciousness. The new experience from the unborn Future
has been a summum bonum for poets. One must
There is another important aspect of the admit that poetic experience can carry equal
being which needs to be considered. The validity as psychological analysis. Tagore
Etman or the real Self in the Indian tradition expressed his existential restlessness in his
that supports the manifest being is an thirst for the unborn. And Sri Aurobindo,
unborn and undying fourth-dimensional the seer-poet, describes how the unborn Idea,
entity. It is different from the soul in the like a great heaven-bird, waiting to manifest
Western tradition which is a constructed for the adventure in consciousness, is indeed
entity from components of the being. ‘The a yearning for the Unmanifest:
difference between the Semitic conception
of the soul and the Hindu idea of the Etman “… the unborn Idea
arises from the fact that the Etman is an Remembering the future that must be
uncreated but the soul a created reality. Looks down upon the works of labouring Force,
Also, it must be noted that man is, according Immutable above the world it made.
to Hinduism, essentially Etman inhabiting In the vast golden laughter of Truth’s sun
a mind-life-body aadharaa, container; but Like a great heaven-bird on a motionless sea
man in the Semitic tradition is a unity of Is poised her winged ardour of creative joy
soul meaning …. “mind-life and body(6).” On the still deep of the Eternal’s peace,.. (7)”
Thus the Etman does not originate from the
Freudian unconscious or the matrix of Darwinian References
phylogenesis and can neither be understood
through dialectical dynamics. An appreciation 1. Sartre J-P.BetweenExistentialism and Marxism
of the unborn Future and the interpretation (translated by Matthews J.) London: Verso;
of a new idea originating thereof need the 1983, pp. 38-9.
development of supra-rational faculties.
Likewise, the experiential contact with the 2. Ibid., p.39.

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