{"id":3998,"date":"2013-07-13T01:52:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:52:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:46","slug":"34-knowledge-of-the-scientist-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/03-questions-and-answers-volume-03\/34-knowledge-of-the-scientist-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-34_Knowledge of the Scientist.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n <\/font><\/span>Knowledge of the Scientist and the Yogi
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\nT<\/font><\/span>he climax of the ordinary consciousness is Science. For Science, what
\nis upon the earth is true, simply because it is there. What it calls Nature is
\nfor it the final reality, and its aim is to build up a theory to explain the
\nworkings of it. So it climbs as high as the physical mind can go and tries to
\nfind out the causes of what it assumes to be the true, the real world. But in
\nfact it adapts \u201ccauses\u201d to \u201ceffects\u201d, for it has already taken that which is
\nfor the true, the real, and seeks only to explain it mentally. For the yogic
\nconsciousness, however, this world is not the final reality. Rising above the
\nmind into the Overmind and then into the Supermind, it enters the divine world
\nof first truths, and looking down from there sees what has happened to those
\ntruths here. How distorted they have become, how completely falsified! So the
\nso-called world of fact is for the Yogi a falsehood and not at all the only
\ntrue reality. It is not what it ought to be, it is almost the very opposite;
\nwhereas for the scientist it is absolutely fundamental. <\/span><\/p>\n

Our aim is to change things. The scientist
\nsays that whatever is, is natural and cannot be changed at heart. But, really
\nspeaking, the laws of which he usually speaks are of his own mental making; and
\nbecause he accepts Nature as it is as the very basis, things do not and cannot
\nchange for him in any complete sense. But, according to us, all this can be
\nchanged, because we know that there is something above, a divine truth seeking
\nmanifestation. There are no fixed laws here; even Science in its undogmatic
\nmoments recognises that the laws are mere mental constructions. There are only
\ncases, and if the mind could apply itself to all the circumstances it would
\nfind that no two cases are similar. Laws are for the mind’s convenience, but
\nthe process of the supramental manifestation is different, we may even say it
\nis the reverse of the mind. In the supramental realisation, each thing will
\ncarry in itself a truth which will manifest <\/span>
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at each instant without being bound by what has been or what will
\nfollow. That elaborate linking of the past with the present, which gives things
\nin Nature such an air of unchangeable determinism is altogether the mind’s way
\nof conceiving, and is no proof that all that exists is inevitable and cannot be
\notherwise. <\/span><\/p>\n

The knowledge possessed by the Yogi is
\nalso an answer to the terrible theory that all that takes place is God’s direct
\nworking. For once you rise to the Supermind you immediately perceive that the
\nworld is false and distorted. The supramental truth has not at all found
\nmanifestation. How then can the world be a genuine expression of the Divine?
\nOnly when the Supermind is established and rules here, then alone the Supreme
\nWill may be said to have authentically manifested. At the same time, we must
\nsteer clear of the dangerous exaggeration of the sense of the falsehood of the
\nworld, which comes to those who have risen to the higher consciousness. What
\nhappened with Shankara and others like him was that they had a glimpse of the
\ntrue consciousness, which threw the falsehood of this world into such sharp
\ncontrast that they declared the universe to be not only false but also a really
\nnon-existent illusion which should be entirely abandoned. We, on the other
\nhand, see its falsehood, but realise also that it has to be replaced and not
\nabandoned as an illusion. Only, the truth has got mistranslated, something has
\nstepped in to pervert the divine reality, but the world is in fact meant to
\nexpress it. And to express it is indeed our Yoga<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 162<\/span><\/p>\n

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