{"id":440,"date":"2013-07-13T01:28:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=440"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:02","slug":"07-consciousness-psychogy-vol-17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17\/07-consciousness-psychogy-vol-17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17","title":{"rendered":"-07_Consciousness Psychogy.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n

\n
\nConsciousness
\n<\/span><\/b>\u2014
\n<\/span>Psychology<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n <\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/b>
\n                        A<\/font><\/b>LL<\/font>
\nthat exists or can exist in this or any other universe can be rendered into
\nterms of consciousness; there is nothing that cannot be known. This knowing need
\nnot be always a mental knowledge. For the greater part of existence is either
\nabove or below mind, and mind can know only indirectly what is above or what is
\nbelow it. But the one true and complete way of knowing is by direct knowledge.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

    All
\ncan be rendered into terms of consciousness because all is either a creation of
\nconsciousness or else one of its forms. All exists in an infinite conscious
\nexistence and is a part or a form of it. In proportion as one can share directly
\nor indirectly, completely or incompletely in the eternal awareness of this
\nInfinite, or momentarily contact or enter into, or formulate some superior or
\ninferior power of its consciousness or knowledge, one can know what it knows in
\npart or whole, by a direct knowing or an indirect coming to knowledge. A
\nconscious, half-conscious or subconscious participation in the awareness of the
\nInfinite is the basis of all knowledge.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

    All
\nthings are inhabited by this consciousness, even the things that seem to us
\ninconscient, and the consciousness in one form can communicate or contact with
\nthe consciousness in another or else penetrate or contain or identify with it.
\nThis in one form or another is the true process of all knowledge; the rest is
\nignorant appearance.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

    All
\nthings are one self; it is the one Knower who knows
\nhimself
\neverywhere, from one centre or another in the multiplicity of his play.
\nOtherwise no knowledge would be possible.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

    The
\nsense of a greater or even of an ultimate Self need not be limited to a negative
\nand empty wideness whose one character is to be without limitations or features.
\nThe first extreme push of our recoil from what we now are or think ourselves to
\nbe may and does often at first carry us over into this annihilating experience. A negation of our present error, a release from our petty<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n


\nPage
\n– 23<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

irksome
\naching bonds may seem to be the only thing worth having, the only thing true.
\nThe rest is infinity, freedom, peace. We feel an Infinite that needs nothing but
\nits own infinite to fill
\nit. <\/span>We rejoice in a freedom of which any form, name or descrip\u00adtion, any
\ncreative activity, any movement, any impulse would be a disturbing denial and
\nthe beginning of a relapse into the error of will and desire, the ignorance of
\nthe illusory finite. To accept nothing but the bare bliss of infinity is the
\ncondition of this peace. The mind escaping from itself denies all thought, all
\nform-making, all motion or play of any kind; for that would be a grievous return
\nto itself, a miserable imprisonment and renewed hard-labour. The life released
\nfrom the toil of labouring and striving and living demands only immobility and
\nno more to be, a sleep of force, the surety and rest of an immutable status. The
\nbody accepts denial and dissolution, for to be dissolved is to cease to breathe
\nand suffer. A bodiless, lifeless, mindless infinite breadth and supreme silence
\nshows to us that we are in contact with the Absolute….
\n<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

    All
\nexistence, \u2014 as the mind and sense know existence, – is manifestation of an
\nEternal and Infinite which is to the mind and sense unknowable but not
\nunknowable to its own self-awareness.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

    Whatever
\nthe manifestation may be, spiritual or material or other, it has behind it
\nsomething that is beyond itself, and even if we reached the highest possible
\nheights of the manifested existence there would be still beyond that even an
\nUnmanifested from which it came.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

    The
\nUnmanifested Supreme is beyond all definition and description by mind or speech;
\nno definition the mind can make, affirmative or negative, which can be at all
\nexpressive of it or adequate.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

    To
\nthe mind this Unmanifest can present itself as a Self, a supreme Nihil (Tao or
\nSunyam), a featureless Absolute, an Indeterminate, a blissful Nirvana of
\nmanifested existence, a Non-Being out of which Being came or a Being of silence
\nout of which a world-illusion came. But all these are mental formulas expressing the mind\u2019s approach to it, not That but impressions which fall<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n


\nPage
\n– 24<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

from
\nThat
\nupon the receiving consciousness, not the true essence
\n<\/font><\/span>or nature
\n(Swarupa) of the Eternal and Infinite. Even the words
\n<\/font><\/span>Eternal
\nand Infinite are only symbolic expressions through
\n<\/span><\/font>which the
\nmind feels without grasping some vague impression of
\nthis
\nSupreme.
\n<\/font><\/span> <\/p>\n

If
\nwe say of it net<\/i>i
\n<\/i>net<\/i>i<\/i>, <\/i>this can mean
\nnothing except that
\nnothing
\nin the world or beyond it of which the mind can take cognisance is the Supreme in
\nits entirety or its essence. If we
\n<\/font><\/span>say of
\nit iti iti, <\/font><\/span>this
\ncan mean at the most that what we see of it in the
\n<\/span>world or beyond is some indication of something that is
\n<\/span><\/font><\/font>there
\nbeyond and by travelling through all these indications to their absolutes we may
\nget a step or two nearer to the Absolute of all
\nabsolutes, this Supreme<\/span>.<\/b>
\nBoth f<\/span>ormulas have a truth in them, but neither
\ntouches the secret truth of the Supreme.<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n


\n 
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