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ego reigns and death triumphs as well as
a Higher Nature that transcends the ego
and is intrinsically indestructible, for it is
aligned with infinity and eternity. When
Sartre talks about the destructible element
in human beings, he actually refers to the
ego-bound lower nature where war and strife
exist as self-destructible human elements and
physical nature too offers resistances to the
Higher Forces resulting in catastrophes. When
Sri Aurobindo talks about the Supramental
creation, he refers to the gnostic Higher Nature
where newer elements of consciousness are
perpetually constructed and destruction as a
phenomenon disappears altogether.
harmony that can only be achieved after all
destructive potentials have been exhausted. References

“The term of our destiny is already known to 1. Sartre J-P. Being and Nothingness — Phenomenological
us; we have to grow from what we are into a Essay on Ontology, (translated by Barnes HE).
more luminous existence, from pleasure and New York: Washington Square Press; 1992,
pain into a purer and vaster and deeper bliss, p. 39.
from our struggling knowledge and ignorance
into a spontaneous and boundless light of 2. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,
consciousness, from our fumbling strength and Volume 21. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
weakness into a sure and all-understanding Trust; 2005, p. 206.
Power, from division and ego into universality
and unity (5).” 3. Sri Aurobindo. CWSA, Volume 33; 1997. p. 12.

Sartre relates the destruction in nature to 4. Sri Aurobindo. CWSA, Volume 12; 1997, p. 221.
the inherent destructibility in human life.
But nature also includes our ego-bound 5. Ibid.,p. 228.
surface personality. Indian metaphysics has
always described a lower nature where the — Dr. Soumitra Basu

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