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Namah Realms of the evolution of consciousness

ness is the field where effortless action his works are burned up as in a fire and
flows, as if in a state of Actionlessness his mind remains without any stain or
(3). Verse 4.18 mentions this as one who disfiguring mark from them, calm, silent,
experiences‘action’ in ‘inaction’ and ‘inaction’ unperturbed, white and clean and pure. To
in ‘action’.There is no experience of doership, do all in this liberating knowledge, without
only of enjoyership. Sri Aurobindo mentions the personal egoism of the doer, is the first
such a being as the Divine worker that, “... sign of the divine worker (4).”
in the full flood of action the soul is free
from its works, is not the doer, not bound 2. The control compass
by what is done, and he who lives in the
freedom of the soul, not in the bondage of The control compass specifies the governance;
the modes of Nature, alone has release from the where and how of the realm. The Realm
works. This is what the Gita clearly means of Inconscient Inactivity and Stillness is
when it says that he who in action can see completely driven by the external, since
inaction and can see action still continuing here the consciousness appears to be inert
in cessation from works, is the man of true and dormant. In effect it is the realm of
reason and discernment among men. This being acted upon. For example, a stone
saying hinges upon the Sankhya distinction appears inert and inconscient. It requires an
between Purusha and Prakriti, between the external force or agency to change its shape
free inactive soul, eternally calm, pure and or place. An example at the individual self
unmoved in the midst of works, and ever level is when we are acting from a state of
active Nature operative as much in inertia complete unawareness, having given our
and cessation as in the overt turmoil of remote to someone outside who is expected
her visible hurry of labour. This is the to decide our actions and responses for us.
knowledge which the highest effort of the
discriminating reason, the buddhi, gives to The Realm of Conscient Activity and Movement
us, and therefore whoever possesses it is is dynamic and is driven both by the external
the truly rational and discerning man, sa and internal. There is choice, agency and
buddhimaan manussyessu, not the perplexed effort available, which can be deployed
thinker who judges life and works by the for movement either towards inactivity,
external, uncertain and impermanent lower levels of awareness or towards Super-
distinctions of the lower reason. Therefore Conscient activity. The being has the choice
the liberated man is not afraid of action, to remain stationed in ignorance or move
he is a large and universal doer of all towards knowledge.
works, krrtsna-krrt; not as others do them
in subjection to Nature, but poised in the The Realm of Super-Conscient Activity
silent calm of the soul, tranquilly in Yoga and Stillness is fully driven by the internal
with the Divine. The Divine is the lord of compass connected with the Eternal. The
his works, he is only their channel through being is fully aligned, established and
the instrumentality of his nature conscious anchored within and requires no external
of and subject to her Lord. By the flaming triggers or motivations.
intensity and purity of this knowledge all

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