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Namah Vol. 32, Issue 3, 15th October 2024

just as we are, because it is Thyself who hast so continuous: Mean-ing, Its Own Meaning
made us (4)!” eternally found anew, eternally renewed,
meaning everything and transcending every
The meaning is thus what we awake to.… as meaning, progressively unfurling.…
we awake, gradually, in keeping with our
progressive receptivity to the Divine, and “All kneels in mute devotion before this ever-
awake thus to the Divine’s multitude of renewed miracle (5).”
creations and instruments through which the
Divine leads us to Itself.… within and without Meaning thus is never complete, each a
— through which and whom It makes us to new find enabled by the One Who-That
seek and find It in all and everything. can never be defined, can never be confined
to a meaning.… each valid even in its
Divine, the Meaning, the Eternal Present incompleteness, each a reflection of It and yet
Continuous and hence Meaning in itself ever dynamic,
like a flowing river that touches the many
As the Scribe writes within us, so we ascribe banks of meanings but belongs to none…: the
the meaning — as to It, so to the happenings, Divine and Meaning rendered One, Meaning
and so to the words too.… and so to Meaning finding Itself in the Infinite One, ever Present,
too! The Scribe, Indefinable, The Meaning of ever Continuous… ever Meaningful, beyond
all and everything, can we deny, is the Eternal every Meaning, the Divine the Meaning of
Presence, the Constant, the Continuous: The being… for ever Mean-ing.…
Eternal Present Continuous? Likewise, this word,
Meaning, while we search for the meaning “His human portion, we must grow Divine
of words and while the very meanings keep (6).”
changing subject to our evolving experiences
and perceptions, this too, in itself: Is it not To the All-Meaning, All-Exceeding, All-
in itself a present continuous, Mean-ing what Fulfilling, is offered the very Meaning of
it means? Whenever we seek and find and Meaning, the Meaning of being… Meaning
state that the “meaning is this.…” do we finds itself finally, finally finds its own
not proclaim: It means and continues to meaning…
mean what it means, and thus the recorded
meanings in the dictionary? Albeit a preview “O Supreme and only Guide, Thou who never
and glimpse and promise of many more gainsayest our highest will because it is Thou
meanings that they can be, that they hold in Thyself who willest in it (7)!”
their bosom, that the Divine holds back to
unfold when the Time is deemed ready to References
redeem the new meaning?
1. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,
It seems that this too is a part of the Play, the Volume 12. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Lila, of the Omnipresent, the Eternal Present Trust; 1997, p. 456.
Continuous, hiding in the word Meaning.…
rendering the word too an eternal present 2. The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother,

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