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

has an evolutionary role and place in this that looks after the development of our body,
totality. Nothing is discarded. For instance, emotions, intellect and soul; not just any one
from the view of harmony, pain and suffering aspect. These will surely help in bringing
are not seen as bad, but as tools of Nature at harmony.
perfecting the human instrument.
But mind, in its ordinary existence, cannot
Secondly, harmony has a centre that gives truly contain the complexity of true harmony
equilibrium and balance. Harmony comes that carries the largest possibility with the
through equilibrium between different parts, smallest little detail. Imposition of the
a balance that gives the perfect hierarchy. In mental will more often than not produces
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an individual, at the centre is the psychic. The standardisation and fixity, which is contrary
psychicbeing is the evolving soul in nature. to the Forces of Nature. Nature finds joy in
It is this part which forms a conscious and diversity, variety and idiosyncrasies.
living relationship with the Divine and has
the potential of harmonising different parts Further, these characteristics can help us
of the being. understand the movement of harmony
metaphysically, but one may ask, is there a part
Thirdly, harmony consists of multiplicity. It in our psyche that can carry the entire spectrum
involves not eliminating anything but putting from infinity to minute detail seamlessly,
each thing in its place in total harmony with embodied moment to moment into one’s
the rest. actions? According to Sri Aurobindo, there
is. The next sections talk about this.
Fourthly, harmony is the dynamic form of
Bliss or Enanda. The Force of harmony

This simple childlike scheme of harmony Sri Aurobindo talks about harmony as one of
involving totality, centre, multiplicity and the four fundamental Powers of the Divine:
joy is dynamic and progressive. Wisdom, Power, Harmony and Perfection in
Work. He describes the Conscious Force of
Mental harmony Harmony as Mahalakshmi. The following are
a few of his descriptions of Mahalakshmi (12):
Using the above characteristics of harmony,
we can make mental models that respect “Above them [Wisdom and Force] is the
principles such as multiplicity and diversity miracle of eternal beauty, an unseizable secret
over a mechanical uniformity and implement it of divine harmonies, the compelling magic of
in our lives. For instance, we can consciously be an irresistible universal charm and attraction
more inclusive of diversity in our communities that draws and holds things and forces and
and work or make a routine for ourselves beings together and obliges them to meet

1 The perfect hierarchy is a spiritual hierarchy, wherein parts fall around a centre, without a sense
of superiority and inferiority, but rather according to their svabhaava (true nature) and svadharma
(individualised purpose).

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