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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 3, 15th October 2022

they develop. The event is Brahman, already (16). Without the presence and direction of
accomplished from of old, it is now manifesting a higher force or guiding will, molecules by
(13).” This remarkable spiritual insight themselves could not build a cell and similarly
indicates that all actions at the material plane are cells by themselves would not build a body;
supplemented by pre-programmed antecedents their growth would result in an amorphous
in the subtle plane. It seems that not only actions mass (17). Finally, yogic insight reveals that
but even objects that exist have subtle precedents knowledge itself is pre-existent and there is
in a fourth-dimensional supra-sensorial world. a subtle plane of consciousness — “….. the
mind of knowledge in which all things and all
truths are perceived and experienced as already
present and known and immediately available
by merely turning the inner light upon it (18).”

It cannot be denied that one of the hallmarks of
modern science is its perceptible shift towards
subtleties to fill in explanatory gaps. It is not
surprising that great physicists like Einstein,
However, Sri Aurobindo also cautioned that Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Max Planck and
the presence of invisible forces behind the Eddington acknowledged that the universe
visible manifestation had nothing to do with could not make sense or be satisfactorily
predetermination (14). In fact, Sri Aurobindo explained by excluding consciousness.
believed that the visible manifestation was (19) It is against this background that the
neither due to rigid predetermination nor an characteristics of the spiritual paradigm of
act of blind inconscient Chance but a play in consciousness should be studied and seen
which there was a working out of possibilities how it enriches our understanding of the
in Time (15). Mystics describe that such play scientific paradigm at the level of matter-
of forces working out different possibilities energy and psychology. We shall attempt
has been sanctioned by a creative Intelligence to construct a model of consciousness which
and allowed to be worked out by a guiding gives due recognition to both the paradigms.
Will. The possibilities that are sustainable
have to be acknowledged, the possibilities Unified-field theory in the consciousness
that are not sustainable have to be ignored perspective
or rejected, in the saga of existence. When
Sri Aurobindo was told about Ouspensky’s It is also interesting that the spiritual
view (in his Tertium Organum) that for each paradigm can not only expand our repertoire
solid form we see here, there corresponds a of knowledge by illumining the explanatory
subtler form of it in the fourth dimension, he gaps left out by our reasoning mind, it can also
had quipped that that was true and the cube validate through supra-rational realisations,
would not be held together and therefore hypotheses which are empirically difficult
would not be solid if something in the subtle to be established. Thus, Einstein failed to
dimension did not maintain it; only it was validate his own ‘unified-field theory’
not discernible except to the subtle vision through a single mathematical equation

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