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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 3, 15th October 2023

reject, new-create, reveal out of itself a greater the Supermind, “… a luminous self-determining
self-formulation (13).” knowledge, will and action… (16)”, coeval with
perfect delight so as to be ”…always aware
”This power of the soul over its nature is of of the Divine and free from Ignorance and its
the utmost importance in the Yoga of self- consequences (17).”
perfection; if it did not exist, we could never
get by conscious endeavour and aspiration out Thus, a poise in any of the three aspects of
of the fixed groove of our present imperfect Sachchidananda can reflect oneness, though
human being; if any greater perfection were one or other aspect predominates but with
intended, we should have to wait for Nature the manifestation of the Supermind, the
to effect it in her own slow or swift process Sachchidananda experience becomes not only
of evolution. In the lower forms of being the unitary but simultaneously integral. A poise
soul accepts this complete subjection to Nature, in the higher Nature, that has transcended the
but as it rises higher in the scale, it awakes to a ego and even experienced the Sachchidananda,
sense of something in itself which can command cannot fully conquer the forces of Ignorance
Nature; but it is only when it arrives at self- and Inconscience unless the powers of the
knowledge that this free will and control becomes Supermind are manifested. The Supermind
a complete reality (14).” itself has higher and lower ranges; in its
higher gnosis, ”… unity is the basis, but
it takes its joy in diversity; in lower fact of
supermind diversity is the basis, but it refers
back always to a conscious unity and it takes
joy in unity (18).” Sri Aurobindo reminded,
“These ranges of consciousness are beyond
our present level; they are superconscious
to our normal mentality. That belongs to a
lower hemisphere of being (19).”
Indian spirituality has always considered
that when the soul-status shifts to the higher The Truth of the unitary Sachchidananda,
Nature, it can be poised in different ways in at the Higher Nature where Existence,
which Sachchidananda manifests, viz. in the Consciousness-Force and Bliss form an
principle of infinite unity of self-existence; in indivisible trio, gets projected in the divisive
the principle of infinite conscious energy or in principles of mind, life-energy and matter
the principle of infinite self-existent delight. at the lower Nature. This cleavage between
“In these three poises the consciousness of unity the Higher Nature and lower Nature and
dominates; the soul lives in its awareness of this divisibility between the principles of
eternity, universality, unity, and whatever mind, life-energy and matter in the lower
diversity there is, is not separative, but only Nature is necessary so that each individual
a multitudinous aspect of oneness (15).“ Sri principle develops its maximum potential at
Aurobindo has enlarged further the scope of the expense of others, ensuring the variety
the higher ranges of Nature to the poise where and richness of creation. However, it should
Sachchidananda manifests the creative power of be remembered that each principle has the

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