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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 3, 15th October 2021

What if there was a different world-view! metaphysical Non-Being who is termed
Actually there can be many world-views, such as it surpasses our cognitive grasp but
all of which represent partial truths. And Sri is actually the Spirit who simultaneously
Aurobindo explains that the global cognitive holds the Transcendental, Universal and
field of the Overmind allows a plethora of Individual poises of Reality.
partial truths to flourish so as to constitute a
variegated manifestation. Thus was created Moreover, destruction per se is not merely
the world of multiplicity, which was also the opposite of creation and survival. On
Ignorance, as the unity of the manifestation the contrary, it is incorporated in the very
representing Knowledge had to be sacrificed programme of creation. It is perpetual
for uniqueness of the world-integers to flourish. destruction that assures a perpetual renewal
of forms. Sri Aurobindo views death not as
A synthesis of unity and multiplicity, of a denial of life but as a process of Life, “….
knowledge and ignorance cannot take place death is necessary because the eternal change of
in the global cognitive field of the Overmind form is the sole immortality to which the finite
for the simple reason that a global playing- living substance can aspire and eternal change
field has to support simultaneously all the of experience the sole infinity to which the finite
unique integers in a manifestation. (The mind involved in living body can attain (2).”
Mind-principle, which is a derivative of
the Overmind, cannot support all integers And can the witness be an extra-corporeal
simultaneously for it is not impartial in its being or even a temporal being? The actual
dealings). The synthesis can only take place witness is the unchanging Spirit or Jivatman
in the integral cognitive field of the supreme that supports the soul-element in evolution
creative consciousness of the Supermind. through itself, behind the manifestation,
supporting and upholding it. If Sartre contends
In an integral world-view, all denouements that it is not feasible to have a witness in the flux
change. of Time, he is not wrong. For the witness has
to be poised in timelessness — it is that which
Firstly, the being not only can extend to withstands aeonic vicissitudes and raises us
a non-being of nothingness, which is all from “the yoke imposed by birth in Time (3).”
where the ego can take us to, it can also
extend to a fourth-dimensional being of And finally the human being is not merely
fulfilment and plenitude which is the soul- a trans-phenomenal being in the sense that
principle in evolution. Thus the phenomenal behind the phenomenon of the apparent
being in time and space is supported by being is the Freudian unconscious being and
a noumenal being poised in infinity and the Sartre’s destructible being of nothingness
eternity. If destruction is programmed in and the metaphysical conception of the
the phenomenal world, the immortality soul; man is, in Aurobindonian terms, also
of consciousness is also programmed in a transitional being, “Man is not final, he is a
the trans-phenomenal perspective. In transitional being. Beyond him awaits formation
other words, if there is a perceived non- of the diviner race, the superman (4).”
being that heralds destruction; there is a The universe awaits a gradually unfolding

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