{"id":2255,"date":"2013-07-13T01:40:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:40:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:40:24","slug":"28-the-secret-of-secrets-vol-19-essays-on-the-gita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/19-essays-on-the-gita\/28-the-secret-of-secrets-vol-19-essays-on-the-gita","title":{"rendered":"-28_The Secret of Secrets.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n<b>IV <\/b><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n<b><font size=\"4\">The Secret of Secrets <\/font><\/b><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n<b><font size=\"5\">A<\/font>LL THE<\/b> truth<br \/>\nthat has developed itself at this length step by step, each bringing forward a<br \/>\nfresh aspect of the integral knowledge and founding on it some result of<br \/>\nspiritual state and action, has now to take a turn of immense importance. The<br \/>\nTeacher therefore takes care first to draw attention to the decisive character<br \/>\nof what he is about to say, so that the mind of Arjuna may be awakened and<br \/>\nattentive. For he is going to open his mind to the knowledge and sight of the<br \/>\nintegral Divinity and lead up to the vision of the eleventh book, by which the<br \/>\nwarrior of Kurukshetra becomes conscious of the author and upholder of his being<br \/>\nand action and mission, the Godhead in man and the world, whom nothing in man<br \/>\nand the world limits or binds, because all proceeds from him, is a movement in<br \/>\nhis infinite being, continues and is supported by his will, is justified in his<br \/>\ndivine self-knowledge, has him always for its origin, substance and end. Arjuna<br \/>\nis to become aware of himself as existing only in God and as acting only by the<br \/>\npower within him, his workings only an instrumentality of the divine action, his<br \/>\negoistic consciousness only a veil and to his ignorance a misrepresentation of<br \/>\nthe real being within him which is an immortal spark and portion of the supreme<br \/>\nGodhead.<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">This vision is to remove whatever doubt may still remain within his mind; it is<br \/>\nto make him strong for the action from which he has shrunk, but to which he is<br \/>\nirrevocably commanded and can no more recoil from it, \u2014 for to recoil would be<br \/>\nthe negation and denial of the divine will and sanction within him already<br \/>\nexpressed in his individual consciousness but soon to assume the appearance of<br \/>\nthe greater cosmic sanction. For now the world Being appears to him as the body<br \/>\nof God ensouled by the eternal Time-spirit and with its majestic and dreadful<br \/>\nvoice missions him to the crash of the battle. He is called by it to&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 301<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\">the liberation of his spirit, to the fulfilment of his action in the cosmic<br \/>\nmystery, and the two \u2014 liberation and action \u2014 are to be one movement. His<br \/>\nintellectual doubts are clearing away as a greater light of self-knowledge and<br \/>\nthe knowledge of God and Nature is being unfolded before him. But intellectual<br \/>\nclarity is not enough; he must see with the inner sight illumining his blind<br \/>\noutward human vision, so that he may act with the consent of  <\/p>\n<p> his whole being, with a perfect faith in all his members, <i><br \/>\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">&#347;<\/font>raddh<font face=\"Times New Roman\">&#257;<\/font><\/i>,<br \/>\nwith a perfect devotion to the Self of his self and the Master of his being and<br \/>\nto the same Self of the world and Master of all being in the universe. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">All that has gone before laid the foundations of the knowledge or prepared its<br \/>\nfirst necessary materials or scaffolding, but now the full frame of the<br \/>\nstructure is to be placed before his unsealed vision. All that is to come after<br \/>\nwill have its great importance because it will analyse parts of this frame, show<br \/>\nin what this or that in it consists; but in substance the integral knowledge of<br \/>\nthe Being who is speaking to him is to be now unveiled to his eyes so that he<br \/>\ncannot choose but see. What has gone before showed him that he is not bound<br \/>\nfatally to the knot of the ignorance and egoistic action in which he had<br \/>\nhitherto remained contented till its partial solutions sufficed no longer to<br \/>\nsatisfy his mind bewildered by the conflict of opposite appearances that make up<br \/>\nthe action of the world and his heart troubled by the entanglement of his works<br \/>\nfrom which he feels himself unable to escape except by renunciation of life and<br \/>\nworks. He has been shown that there are two opposed ways of working and living,<br \/>\none in the ignorance of the ego, one in the clear self-knowledge of a divine<br \/>\nbeing. He may act with desire, with passion, an ego driven by the qualities of<br \/>\nthe lower Nature, subject to the balance of virtue and sin, joy and sorrow,<br \/>\npreoccupied with the fruits and consequences of his works, success and defeat,<br \/>\ngood result and evil result, bound on the world machine, caught up in a great<br \/>\ntangle of action and inaction and perverse action which perplex the heart and<br \/>\nmind and soul of man with their changing and contrary masks and appearances. But<br \/>\nhe is not utterly tied down to the works of the ignorance; he may do if he will<br \/>\nthe&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 302<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">works of knowledge. He may act here as the higher thinker, the knower, the<br \/>\nYogin, the seeker of freedom first and afterwards the liberated spirit. To<br \/>\nperceive that great possibility and to keep his will and intelligence fixed on<br \/>\nthe knowledge and self-vision which will realise and make it effectual, is the<br \/>\npath of escape from his sorrow and bewilderment, the way out of the human<br \/>\nriddle. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">There is a spirit within us calm, superior to works, equal, not bound in this<br \/>\nexternal tangle, surveying it as its supporter, source, immanent witness, but<br \/>\nnot involved in it. Infinite, containing all, one self in all, it surveys<br \/>\nimpartially the whole action of nature and it sees that it is only the action of<br \/>\nNature, not its own action. It sees that the ego and its will and its<br \/>\nintelligence are all a machinery of Nature and that all their activities are<br \/>\ndetermined by the complexity of her triple modes and qualities. The eternal<br \/>\nspirit itself is free from these things. It is free from them because it knows;<br \/>\nit knows that Nature and ego and the personal being of all these creatures do<br \/>\nnot make up the whole of existence. For existence is not merely a glorious or a<br \/>\nvain, a wonderful or a dismal panorama of a constant mutation of becoming. There<br \/>\nis something eternal, immutable, imperishable, a timeless self-existence; that<br \/>\nis not affected by the mutations of Nature. It is their impartial witness,<br \/>\nneither affecting nor affected, neither acting nor acted upon, neither virtuous<br \/>\nnor sinful, but always pure, complete, great and unwounded. Neither grieving nor<br \/>\nrejoicing at all that afflicts and attracts the egoistic being, it is the friend<br \/>\nof none, the enemy of none, but one equal self of all. Man is not now conscious<br \/>\nof this self, because he is wrapped up in his outward-going mind, because he<br \/>\nwill not learn or has not learned to live within; he does not detach himself,<br \/>\ndraw back from his action and observe it as the work of Nature. Ego is the<br \/>\nobstacle, the linch-pin of the wheel of delusion, the loss of the ego in the<br \/>\nsoul&#8217;s self the first condition of freedom. To become spirit, no longer merely a<br \/>\nmind and ego, is the opening word of this message of liberation. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Arjuna has been therefore called upon first to give up all desire of the fruits<br \/>\nof his works and become simply the desireless&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 303<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\">impartial doer of whatever has to be done, \u2014 leaving the fruit to whatever power<br \/>\nmay be the master of the cosmic workings. For he very evidently is not the<br \/>\nmaster; it is not for the satisfaction of his personal ego that Nature was set<br \/>\nupon her ways, not for the fulfilment of his desires and preferences that the<br \/>\nuniversal Life is living, not for the justification of his intellectual<br \/>\nopinions, judgments and standards that the universal Mind is working, nor is it<br \/>\nto that petty tribunal that it has to refer its cosmic aims or its terrestrial<br \/>\nmethod and purposes. These claims can only be made by the ignorant souls who<br \/>\nlive in their personality and see everything from that poor and narrow<br \/>\nstandpoint. He must stand back first from his egoistic demand on the world and<br \/>\nwork only as one among the millions who contributes his share of effort and<br \/>\nlabour to a result determined not by himself, but by the universal action and<br \/>\npurpose. But he has to do yet more, he has to give up the idea of being the doer<br \/>\nand to see, freed from all personality, that it is the universal intelligence,<br \/>\nwill, mind, life that is at work in him and in all others. Nature is the<br \/>\nuniversal worker; his works are hers, even as the fruits of her works in him are<br \/>\npart of the grand sum of result guided by a greater Power than his own. If he<br \/>\ncan do these two things spiritually, then the tangle and bondage of his works<br \/>\nwill fall far away from him; for the whole knot of that bondage lay in his<br \/>\negoistic demand and participation. Passion and sin and personal joy and grief<br \/>\nwill fade away from his soul, which will now live within, pure, large, calm,<br \/>\nequal to all persons and all things. Action will produce no subjective reaction<br \/>\nand will leave no stain nor any mark on his spirit&#8217;s purity and peace. He will<br \/>\nhave the inner joy, rest, ease and inalienable bliss of a free unaffected being.<br \/>\nNeither within nor without will he have any more the old little personality, for<br \/>\nhe will feel consciously one self and spirit with all, even as his outer nature<br \/>\nwill have become to his consciousness an inseparable part of the universal mind,<br \/>\nlife and will. His separative egoistic personality will have been taken up and<br \/>\nextinguished in the impersonality of spiritual being; his separative egoistic<br \/>\nnature will be unified with the action of cosmic Nature. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">But this liberation is dependent on two simultaneous, but&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 304<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">not yet reconciled perceptions, the clear vision of spirit and the clear vision<br \/>\nof Nature. This is not the scientific and intelligent detachment which is quite<br \/>\npossible even to the materialistic philosopher who has some clear vision of<br \/>\nNature alone, but not the perception of his own soul and self-being. Nor is it<br \/>\nthe intellectual detachment of the idealistic sage who escapes from the more<br \/>\nlimiting and disturbing forms of his ego by a luminous use of the reason. This<br \/>\nis a larger, more living, more perfect spiritual detachment which comes by a<br \/>\nvision of the Supreme who is more than Nature and greater than mind and reason.<br \/>\nBut even this detachment is only the initial secret of freedom and of the clear<br \/>\nvision of knowledge, it is not the whole clue to the divine mystery, \u2014 for by<br \/>\nitself it would leave Nature unexplained and the natural active part of being<br \/>\nisolated from the spiritual and quietistic self-existence. The divine detachment<br \/>\nmust be the foundation for a divine participation in Nature which will replace<br \/>\nthe old egoistic participation, the divine quietism must support a divine<br \/>\nactivism and kinetism. This truth which the Teacher has had in view all along<br \/>\nand therefore insisted on the sacrifice of works, the recognition of the Supreme<br \/>\nas the master of our works and the doctrine of the Avatar and the divine birth,<br \/>\nhas yet been at first kept subordinate to the primary necessity of a quietistic<br \/>\nliberation. Only the truths which lead to spiritual calm, detachment, equality<br \/>\nand oneness, in a word, to the perception and becoming of the immutable self,<br \/>\nhave been fully developed and given their largest amplitude of power and<br \/>\nsignificance. The other great and necessary truth, its complement, has been left<br \/>\nin a certain obscurity of a lesser or relative light; it has been hinted at<br \/>\nconstantly, but not as yet developed. Now in these successive chapters it is<br \/>\nbeing rapidly released into expression.<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Throughout Krishna, the Avatar, the Teacher, the charioteer of the human soul in<br \/>\nthe world-action, has been preparing the revelation of the secret of himself,<br \/>\nNature&#8217;s deepest secret. He has kept one note always sounding across his<br \/>\npreparatory strain and insistently coming in as a warning and prelude of the<br \/>\nlarger ultimate harmony of his integral Truth. That note was the idea of a<br \/>\nsupreme Godhead which dwells within man and Nature,&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 305<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\">but is greater than man and Nature, is found by impersonality of the self, but<br \/>\nof which impersonal self is not the whole significance. We now see the meaning<br \/>\nof that strong recurring insistence. It was this one Godhead, the same in<br \/>\nuniversal self and man and Nature who through the voice of the Teacher in the<br \/>\nchariot was preparing for his absolute claim to the whole being of the awakened<br \/>\nseer of things and doer of works. &quot;I who am within thee,&quot; he was saying, &quot;I who<br \/>\nam here in this human body, I for whom all exists, acts, strives, am at once the<br \/>\nsecret of the self-existent spirit and of the cosmic action. This `I&#8217; is the<br \/>\ngreater I of whom the largest human personality is only a partial and<br \/>\nfragmentary manifestation, Nature itself only an inferior working. Master of the<br \/>\nsoul, master of all the works of the cosmos, I am the one Light, the sole Power,<br \/>\nthe only Being. This Godhead within thee is the Teacher, the Sun, the lifter of<br \/>\nthe clear blaze of knowledge in which thou becomest aware of the difference<br \/>\nbetween thy immutable self and thy mutable nature. But look beyond the light<br \/>\nitself to its source; then shalt thou know the supreme Soul in which is<br \/>\nrecovered the spiritual truth of personality and Nature. See then the one self<br \/>\nin all beings that thou mayst see me in all beings; see all beings in one<br \/>\nspiritual self and reality, because that is the way to see all beings in me;<br \/>\nknow one Brahman in all that thou mayst see God who is the supreme Brahman. Know<br \/>\nthyself, be thyself that thou mayst be united with me of whom this timeless self<br \/>\nis the clear light or the transparent curtain. I the Godhead am the highest<br \/>\ntruth of self and spirit.&quot; <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Arjuna has to see that the same Godhead is the higher truth too not only of self<br \/>\nand spirit but of Nature and his own personality, the secret at once of the<br \/>\nindividual and the universe. That was the Will universal in Nature, greater than<br \/>\nthe acts of Nature which proceed from him, to whom belong her actions and man&#8217;s<br \/>\nand the fruits of them. Therefore has he to do works as a sacrifice, because<br \/>\nthat is the truth of his works and of all works. Nature is the worker and not<br \/>\nego, but Nature is only a power of the Being who is the sole master of all her<br \/>\nworks and energisms and of all the aeons of the cosmic sacrifice. Therefore&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 306<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">since his works are that Being&#8217;s, he has to give up all his actions to the<br \/>\nGodhead in him and the world by whom they are done in the divine mystery of<br \/>\nNature. This is the double condition of the divine birth of the soul, of its<br \/>\nrelease from the mortality of the ego and the body into the spiritual and<br \/>\neternal, \u2014 knowledge first of one&#8217;s timeless immutable self and union through it<br \/>\nwith the timeless Godhead, but knowledge too of that which lives behind the<br \/>\nriddle of cosmos, the Godhead in all existences and their workings. Thus only<br \/>\ncan we aspire through the offering of all our nature and being to a living union<br \/>\nwith the One who has become in Time and Space all that is. Here is the place of<br \/>\nbhakti in the scheme of the Yoga of an integral self-liberation. It is an<br \/>\nadoration and aspiration towards that which is greater than imperishable self or<br \/>\nchanging Nature. All knowledge then becomes an adoration and aspiration, but all<br \/>\nworks too become an adoration and aspiration. Works of nature and freedom of<br \/>\nsoul are unified in this adoration and become one self-uplifting to the one<br \/>\nGodhead. The final release, a passing away from the lower nature to the source<br \/>\nof the higher spiritual becoming, is not an extinction of the soul, \u2014 only its<br \/>\nform of ego becomes extinct, \u2014 but a departure of our whole self of knowledge,<br \/>\nwill and love to dwell no longer in his universal, but in his supracosmic<br \/>\nreality, a fulfilment, not an annullation. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Necessarily, to make this knowledge clear to the mind of Arjuna, the divine<br \/>\nTeacher sets out by removing the source of two remaining difficulties, the<br \/>\nantinomy between the impersonal self and the human personality and the antinomy<br \/>\nbetween the self and Nature. While these two antinomies last, the Godhead in<br \/>\nNature and man remains obscure, irrational and unbelievable. Nature has been<br \/>\nrepresented as the mechanical bondage of the <\/span> <span lang=\"en-gb\"> <i>gun<font face=\"Times New Roman\">&#61477;<\/font>as,<\/i> the soul as the egoistic<br \/>\nbeing subject to that bondage. But if that be all their truth, they are not and<br \/>\ncannot be divine. Nature, ignorant and mechanical, cannot be a power of God; for<br \/>\ndivine Power must be free in its workings, spiritual in its origin, spiritual in<br \/>\nits greatness. The soul bound and egoistic in Nature, mental, vital, physical<br \/>\nonly, cannot be a portion of the Divine and itself a divine being; for such a<br \/>\ndivine being must be itself of&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 307<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\">the very nature of the Divine, free, spiritual, self-developing,<br \/>\nself-existent,<br \/>\nsuperior to mind, life and body. Both these difficulties and the obscurities<br \/>\nthey bring in are removed by one illumining ray of truth. Mechanical Nature is<br \/>\nonly a lower truth; it is the formula of an inferior phenomenal action. There is<br \/>\na higher which is the spiritual and that is the nature of our spiritual<br \/>\npersonality, our true person. God is at once impersonal and personal. His<br \/>\nimpersonality is to our psychological realisation an infinite of timeless being,<br \/>\nconsciousness, bliss of existence; his personality represents itself here as a<br \/>\nconscious power of being, a conscious centre of knowledge and will and the joy<br \/>\nof multiple self-manifestation. We are that one impersonality in the static<br \/>\nessence of our being; we are each of us the multitude of that essential power in<br \/>\nour spiritual person. But the distinction is only for the purposes of<br \/>\nself-manifestation; the divine impersonality is, when one goes behind it, at the<br \/>\nsame time infinite He, a supreme soul and spirit. It is the great &quot;I&quot; \u2014<br \/>\n<i>so<br \/>\naham<\/i>, I am He, from which all personality and nature proceed and disport<br \/>\nthemselves here diversely in the appearance of an impersonal world. Brahman is<br \/>\nall this that is, says the Upanishad, for Brahman is one self which sees itself<br \/>\nin four successive positions of consciousness. Vasudeva, the eternal Being, is<br \/>\nall, says the Gita. He is the Brahman, consciously supports and originates all<br \/>\nfrom his higher spiritual nature, consciously here becomes all things in a<br \/>\nnature of intelligence, mind, life and sense and objective phenomenon of<br \/>\nmaterial existence. The Jiva is he in that spiritual nature of the Eternal, his<br \/>\neternal multiplicity, his self-vision from many centres of conscious self-power.<br \/>\nGod, Nature and Jiva are the three terms of existence, and these three are one<br \/>\nbeing. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">How does this Being manifest himself in cosmos? First as the immutable timeless<br \/>\nself omnipresent and all-supporting which is in its eternity being and not<br \/>\nbecoming. Then, held in that being there is an essential power or spiritual<br \/>\nprinciple of self <\/p>\n<p>becoming, <i>svabh&#257;va<\/i>, through which by spiritual self-vision it determines<br \/>\nand expresses, creates by liberation all that is latent or contained in its own<br \/>\nexistence. The power or the energy of that self-becoming looses forth into<br \/>\nuniversal action, Karma, all&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 308<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">that is thus determined in the spirit. All creation is this action, is this<br \/>\nworking of the essential nature, is Karma. But it is developed here in a mutable<br \/>\nNature of intelligence, mind, life, sense and form-objectivity of material<br \/>\nphenomenon actually cut off from the absolute light and limited by the<br \/>\nIgnorance. All its workings become there a sacrifice of the soul in Nature to<br \/>\nthe supreme Soul secret within her, and the supreme Godhead dwells therefore in<br \/>\nall as the Master of their sacrifice, whose presence and power govern it and<br \/>\nwhose self-knowledge and delight of being receive it. To know this is to have<br \/>\nthe right knowledge of the universe and the vision of God in the cosmos and to<br \/>\nfind out the door of escape from the Ignorance. For this knowledge, made<br \/>\neffective for man by the offering up of his works and all his consciousness to<br \/>\nthe Godhead in all, enables him to return to his spiritual existence and through<br \/>\nit to the supracosmic Reality eternal and luminous above this mutable Nature.<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">This truth is the secret of being which the Gita is now going to apply in its<br \/>\namplitude of result for our inner life and our outer works. What it is going to<br \/>\nsay is the most secret thing of all.<sup><font size=\"2\">1<\/font><\/sup> It  <\/p>\n<p>is the knowledge of the whole Godhead, <i>samagram m&#257;m<\/i>, which the Master of<br \/>\nhis being has promised to Arjuna, that essential knowledge attended with the<br \/>\ncomplete knowledge of it in all its principles which will leave nothing yet to<br \/>\nbe known. The whole knot of the ignorance which has bewildered his human mind<br \/>\nand has made his will recoil from his divinely appointed work, will have been<br \/>\ncut entirely asunder. This is the wisdom of all wisdoms, the secret of all<br \/>\nsecrets, the king-knowledge, the king-secret. It is a pure and supreme light<br \/>\nwhich one can verify by direct spiritual experience and see in oneself as the<br \/>\ntruth: it is the right and just knowledge, the very law of being. It is easy to<br \/>\npractise when one gets hold of it, sees it, tries faithfully to live in it.<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">But faith is necessary; if faith is absent, if one trusts to the critical<br \/>\nintelligence which goes by outward facts and jealously questions the revelatory<br \/>\nknowledge because that does not square<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">1 Gita, IX. 1-3.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n310 <\/font> <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211; 309<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\">with the divisions and imperfections of the apparent nature and seems to exceed<br \/>\nit and state something which carries us beyond the first practical facts of our<br \/>\npresent existence, its grief, its  <\/p>\n<p>pain, evil, defect, undivine error and stumbling, <i>a&#347;ubham<\/i>, then there is<br \/>\nno possibility of living out that greater knowledge. The soul that fails to get<br \/>\nfaith in the higher truth and law, must return into the path of ordinary mortal<br \/>\nliving subject to death and error and evil: it cannot grow into the Godhead<br \/>\nwhich it denies. For this is a truth which has to be lived, \u2014 and lived in the<br \/>\nsoul&#8217;s growing light, not argued out in the mind&#8217;s darkness. One has to grow<br \/>\ninto it, one has to become it, \u2014 that is the only way to verify it. It is only<br \/>\nby an exceeding of the lower self that one can become the real divine self and<br \/>\nlive the truth of our spiritual existence. All the apparent truths one can<br \/>\noppose to it are appearances of the lower Nature. The release from <\/p>\n<p> the evil and the defect of the lower Nature, <i>a&#347;ubham<\/i>, can only<br \/>\ncome by accepting a higher knowledge in which all this apparent evil becomes<br \/>\nconvinced of ultimate unreality, is shown to be a creation of our darkness. But<br \/>\nto grow thus into the freedom of the divine Nature one must accept and believe<br \/>\nin the Godhead secret within our present limited nature. For the reason why the<br \/>\npractice of this Yoga becomes possible and easy is that in doing it we give up<br \/>\nthe whole working of all that we naturally are into the hands of that inner<br \/>\ndivine Purusha. The Godhead works out the divine birth in us progressively,<br \/>\nsimply, infallibly, by taking up our being into his and by filling it with his<br \/>\nown <\/p>\n<p>knowledge and power, <i>j\u00f1&#257;nad&#299;pena bh<font face=\"Times New Roman\">&#257;<\/font>svat<font face=\"Times New Roman\">&#257;<\/font><\/i>; he lays hands on our obscure<br \/>\nignorant nature and transforms it into his own light and wideness. What with<br \/>\nentire faith and without egoism we believe in and impelled by him will to be,<br \/>\nthe God within will surely accomplish. But the egoistic mind and life we now and<br \/>\napparently are, must first surrender itself for transmutation into the hands of<br \/>\nthat inmost secret Divinity within us.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page &#8211;<br \/>\n\t\t\t310<\/font><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IV &nbsp; The Secret of Secrets &nbsp; ALL THE truth that has developed itself at this length step by step, each bringing forward a fresh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19-essays-on-the-gita","wpcat-47-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}