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\n\n\n
\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAppendix <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tto Part IV
\n<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSri Aurobindo began another chapter of “The Yoga of Self-Perfection” before deciding to discontinue the
\npublication of the Arya<\/i>. He wrote two versions of the opening of this
\n\t\t\tchapter, which are reproduced here from his typescript. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\t 
\nChapter XXVI <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Supramental Time
\n\t\t\t<\/a>
\n<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tConsciousness<\/a><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t [Version A]
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe supermind in its supreme status is the truth-consciousness of the Infinite, the inherent light and power of self-knowledge
\nand all-knowledge of the Supreme who is the self of all, the living eternal truth of all that is and of whom all objects and
\nbeings, all the universe and motion of things and happenings in time is a partial continually proceeding manifestation. The
\nSupreme organises through the power of self-realisation and self-manifestation that resides in this self-knowledge and allknowledge all truth of his being that he has the will and delight to put forth in his universal existence,
\n\u2014 to create, as we say from
\nour standpoint. But this creation is not a making or bringing into being of that which was non-existent, neither is it a construction of illusory phenomena in a self of dream, but a revelation in condition of being, substance of consciousness, movement of
\nforce, name, form, idea, significance, of the truths of being of the Eternal. All that manifests itself in time, is the coming into play,
\neffective disclosure, result, form, power, evolution, movement of some truth of being, a truth of Sat, of the eternal existence of
\nthe Supreme and Eternal. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe power that brings it into play is the infinite consciousness of the Supreme aware of itself and all that is itself, not a limited mental consciousness like ours but supramental and
\nillimitable, not bound by this or that condition, but determining out of an infinite truth of self-existence its own conditions, nor
\nby this or that relation or step and sequence, but capable of all possible relations and steps and sequences. It is a power or force
\ninherent in that consciousness which spontaneously, sovereignly <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPage \u2013 <\/font>907<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\tand imperatively compels into manifestation the truth it sees and
\ndwells on and evolves its play, combinations, sequences, not a limited mental will and power like ours, but a conscious force
\nsupramental and illimitable, Tapas, Chit-shakti, not bound to this or that movement and result of energy, but ordering out of
\nthe infinite truth of self-existence the movement and result of all possible energies. And it is finally an Ananda of the being
\nthat deploys itself, that ranges at will among the infinities of consciousness and of its power of manifestation, not a limited
\nmental joy or pleasure like our chequered delight of being and action and feeling, but supramental and illimitable, not subject
\nto a given set of reactions, but embracing and taking a free and sovereign and compelling delight of all that is possible in the
\ntruth of the infinite consciousness and existence.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t [Version B]
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt is necessary in order to understand the phenomena of the supramental time consciousness to realise very firmly certain
\ntruths which are strange to our ordinary mentality or presented to it only as constructions of the metaphysical intellect, intelligible but unsubstantial abstractions as all mere philosophical statements must be, but to the supermind are realised experience
\nand the normal and natural truth of the consciousness in which it lives, moves, acts and manifests its being. It is only in their light
\nthat we can grasp the truth and reality and the manifestation of things in time, otherwise only an illusion or else a flux of
\ntransient, inexplicable and incalculable actualities, and the law, source and order of their manifestation, otherwise only a process
\nof inscrutable Law or else a play of chance and probabilities and possibilities. The truths that reveal the inner meaning and way
\nof the universe are of a spiritual and supramental order. It is difficult however to express them at all in a language adapted to
\nthe mental intellect and one can at most try to indicate. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe first of the truths that thus becomes real to the consciousness is the truth of infinite being, a thing abstract to  <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPage \u2013 <\/font>908<\/font>
\n  <\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\tour present sense and intelligence to which only phenomena
\nare concrete and real, but to the supramental being always and absolutely and intimately present and real. This indeed is
\nthat which to its knowledge, sense, vision, idea, feeling is most concretely real and the phenomena which are now so close and
\nall-important to us, are to it less concrete, not self-existent at all but dependent on the support of the infinite consciousness
\nand its force of presentation: there is thus a complete reversal of the order in the conception of realities. It is not that the
\nphenomena in their turn become abstract, unreal, unsubstantial creations of consciousness,
\n\u2014 that is only the result of a certain
\nexclusive realisation, when there is an identification with the essence of absolute being to the exclusion of its power,
\n\u2014 but
\nthat they are felt as existing here only in a certain movement of the infinite, real only because they are made, as it were, out of
\nthe substance of infinite being. That which determines them, the truth of their essence and nature, svarū<\/font>pa<\/i>, svabhā<\/font>va<\/i>, that which
\ngives them the power to be, is not originally here, but above in the supreme being and consciousness of the infinite. All their true
\ntruth, all their real reality is there in that supreme consciousness and here only hidden in the inmost heart of their existence,  guhā<\/font>yā<\/font>m<\/i>, but not fully expressed in their overt outward phenomena. Therefore to know them only through the externals or through superficial inner movements which is all that our
\nmind now does, is to miss their true truth and reality and to know them only with a partial and mistaken knowledge subject
\nto the limitations, errors, incapacities of the mental ignorance. All that determines their manifestation in our time and space is
\nalso beyond and here only in the hidden secrecy within them, and therefore the mind following their line of manifestation
\nmisses that which determines them and can only see a part of the actually present outward executive play of forces that help to
\ngive them their immediate character and direction. It is only the consciousness that reigns above, that of the supreme Ishwara,
\n\u00b4  ..<\/i> and is present in their secret heart, hr<\/font>ddeś<\/font>e tis<\/font>t<\/font>hati<\/i>, that knows
\n.<\/i> and determines all their true truth and their manifestation in eternal
\n\t\t\ttime. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPage \u2013 <\/font>909<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\t  This supreme of infinite being is supreme in the sense of being above the manifestation in time, its eternal origin, support, control, itself beyond time and space. It is this of which the
\nsupermind, itself a luminous power of this supreme of infinite being, is always and fundamentally conscious. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPage \u2013 <\/font>910<\/font><\/p>\n

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