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Namah Consciousness — the Need for a New Paradigm

that would describe the movements of both faculties. In his magnum opus, The Life
planets and atoms. Divine, Sri Aurobindo elaborated how the
individual cognitive field would get linked
up with a global cognitive field and this
enlarged cognitive repertoire would
evolve to an integral poise (supra mental
cognition) where any creative movement in
consciousness would fulfil its trajectory. In
short, this would herald the appearance of
exceptional qualities that would practically
characterize a new species in terms of
consciousness. We would then need a new
However, The Mother (Mirra Alfassa, approach to understand the mysteries of
Sri Aurobindo’s spiritual collaborator) had life evolving beyond the capacities and
concrete spiritual experiences (recorded capabilities of the present human being. A
on 15 May, 1962) which in a way validated new and greater psychology would become
the ‘unified-field theory’ in terms of the pressing need of the hour.
consciousness. Her description of experiencing
a great undulating wave of consciousness,
expanding and contracting in a vast,
calm, tranquil and harmonious rhythm,
as the very movement of life, fits in with
the description in space of a sinusoidal
wave. A gripping spiritual experience
identifies her material and cellular body
as the ‘wave’ that carries the universe in its
infinite undulating movements and governs
the existence of atoms and galaxies. Such a
realisation not only means ‘living’ the unified-
field theory in experiential terms but opens Cellular mind
the possibility of a poise of consciousness
where one can not only be simultaneously When the mind-principle began to
conscious at different points in the universe, be conspicuous in the evolutionary
but one is actually capable of ‘being’ at journey, the ape-mind developed
every point in the universe (20). to become an important milestone
acting as a template for the progressive
Such a poise is not ordinarily possible unless unfolding of conscious mental faculties
we admit Sri Aurobindo’s vision that an that reached its acme in the human
evolution in consciousness can lead to a being. The Mother in her spiritual
transformation and transmutation of the journey that traversed the depths of
present human being into a greater being consciousness unravelled the secrets of
with hitherto unmanifest Supramental the ‘cellular mind’ that holds the key to

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