{"id":762,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=762"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:15","slug":"70-argument-in-brief-and-synopsis-ch-i-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/27-supplement-volume-27\/70-argument-in-brief-and-synopsis-ch-i-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","title":{"rendered":"-70_Argument in Brief and Synopsis-Ch-I.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n

\nSUPPLEMENT
\nTO <\/font><\/span>VOLUMES
\n18-19
\n<\/font>THE LIFE DIVINE<\/b>
\nARGUMENTS TO "THE
\nLIFE DIVINE"<\/b>
\n
\n
\n<\/span>In response to the desire of some of our
\nsubscribers we
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

   
\nshall prefix henceforth a brief summary or argument to each 
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

                                              
\nchapter of The Life Divine.<\/i>
\n<\/span>                                                                                                                
\n<\/span> 
\n<\/span>Arya, <\/span><\/i>February, 1916<\/p>\n

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

\n

\n
\n
\n<\/span>These Arguments were written by Sri Aurobindo for  <\/p>\n

Chapters XIX to XXXIII of The
\nLife Divine <\/i>as it appeared originally\n<\/p>\n

 in tl1e Arya <\/i>(1914-1919).<\/p>\n

\nThe Life <\/span>Divine
\n<\/i>was revised in 1939-40 and divided into <\/p>\n

two parts, the order of the chapters was rearranged in
\nsome places
\n<\/span>and several new chapters were written for
\nit.<\/p>\n

The "Argument in Brief" and a
\n"Synopsis" of the first chapter of The Life Divine <\/i>were written
\nby Sri Aurobindo in the 1940’s in response to pressing requests for a model
\nindicating the lines upon which a – summary of The Life
\nDivine
\n<\/span> <\/i>could be attempted.<\/p>\n

\nWhere <\/span>necessary
\na note is given indicating to what chapter of the
\n(Centenary Edition) the Arya <\/i>chapter and its argument correspond.
\n 
\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nPage-377<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\nCHAPTER
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span> <\/font><\/span>I
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>The Human
\nAspiration<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/span><\/b>ARGUMENT 
\n<\/span>IN  <\/span>BRIEF
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

     <\/span>       
\nA SEARCH for God (for a spiritual or divine Reality
\n within oneself and behind, above or within the phenomenon of
\n existence), for perfection, for freedom, for an absolute Truth and Bliss, for
\n immortality has been the persistent preoccupation of the highest human thought
\n since the earliest times. This preoccupation seems to be a perpetual element
\n in man’s<\/span> nature;
\n for it survives the longest periods of scepticism.
\n  <\/span>          
\n <\/span> <\/span>This
\n aspiration is in contradiction with his present existence and normal
\n experience of himself which is that of a mortal being, full of imperfections,
\n ego-ridden, largely animal, subject to transitory joys
\n and much pain and suffering, bound by mechanical necessity. But the
\n direct contradiction between what he is and what he
\n seeks to be need not be a final argument against the validity of his
\n aspiration. For such contradictions are part of Nature’s general
\n method; the aspiration may be realisable either by a revolutionary individual
\n effort or by an evolutionary general process.
\n  <\/span>          
\n <\/span>The problems of existence are problems of harmony. Discords and
\n disorder of the materials, oppositions, demand a solution by
\n accordance, by the discovery of a harmony. Thus the accordance of an
\n inanimation and inertia in a containing Matter and the active indwelling
\n stress of Life is Nature’s first problem, its initial difficulty; its perfect
\n solution would be immortality in a material body. The accordance of an
\n unconscious Matter and an unconscious or half-conscious Life with a conscious
\n Mind and Will is her second problem; the possession of a direct and perfect,
\n instrumentation of knowledge in a living body would be its complete solution.
\n The accordance of a mortal mind, life and body with a secretly indwelling
\n immortal spirit is the final problem; the spiritualisation or divinisation of
\n mind, life and body, a divine<\/p>\n

\n\tPage-379
\n  <\/font>\n <\/p>\n

\n

life, would be the perfect solution. The search after these solutions
\nby the human being is not irrational; it is rather the<\/span> very; effort and
\nstriving of Nature within him.
\n        Life appears in Matter, Mind in Life, because they are al. ready there.
\nMatter is a form of veiled Life, Life a form of veiled. Mind; Mind may well be a
\nform and veil of a higher power, the spirit, which is supramental in its nature.
\nNature has implanted an impulse towards
\nlife in certain forms of Matter<\/span> and evolves<\/span>
\nit there, a similar evolutionary
\nimpulse towards mind in<\/span> certain; forms
\nof life, an impulse in certain minds towards what is<\/span> beyond Mind,
\ntowards the unveiling of Spirit or the evolution of a<\/span> spiritual being. Each impulse justifies itself by the creation of the necessary
\norgans and faculties.
\n        <\/span>There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility
\nby taking our present organisation or status of existence as final. The animal
\nis a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a
\nlaboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a
\ndivine being<\/span>, to evolve a divine nature.
\n<\/span> \n<\/p>\n

 \n<\/p>\n

\nSYNOPSIS<\/span><\/p>\n


\n
\n<\/span>
\nMan’s
\nhighest aspiration has been always a seeking for God, perfection, freedom, an absolute truth and bliss, immortality. <\/p>\n

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

       
\nA direct contradiction exists between this aspiration and his present
\nstate of mortality, imperfection, bondage to mechanical necessity, ego and
\nanimality.
\n        This contradiction between what he is now and what he<\/span> seeks
\nto
\nbe is not a final argument against his aspiration. Contradictions are part of
\nNature’s method; the aspiration may be achievable by individual effort or by an
\nevolutionary progress.
\n        The problems of existence are problems of harmony. <\/p>\n

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

       
\nThe accordance of an active life-principle with the inanimate
\nMatter containing it is Nature’s first evolutionary problem; its complete
\nsolution would be immortality in the body.<\/p>\n

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

       
\nThe accordance of conscious Mind with an unconscious Matter and
\nhalf-conscious Life is her second evolutionary<\/span> prob-<\/p>\n

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


\nPage-380<\/p>\n

 <\/font>
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n
\n <\/font>
\nlem;<\/span> a
\ndirect and perfect instrumentation of knowledge in a livi<\/span>ng body<\/span>
\nwould be its complete solution.\n<\/p>\n

   <\/span>     The
\naccordance of immortal spirit with a mortal mind, life
\nan<\/span>d body is her third and final
\nproblem; its complete solution c<\/span>ould be
\nthe evolution of a divine being and a divine nature. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

       
\nAs Nature has implanted the impulse to life in Matter, to mind in
\nlife, so she has implanted in mind the impulse towards <\/span>le evolution of
\nwhat is beyond mind, spiritual, supramental. Each<\/span>
\nimpulse justifies itself by the creation of the necessary organs
\nand faculties.
\n        <\/span>The animal is a laboratory in which she has worked out man; man
\nmay be a laboratory in which she wills to work out the superman, the being of a
\ndivine nature.\n<\/p>\n


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