Sri Aurobindo's Message

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Existence is not an illusion

Existence is not a fluke, a random creation bv nobody, a thing that unaccountably happened to be. It carries in itself the Word of God, it is full of a hidden Divine Presence.

Existence is not a blind machine that somehow came and started a set ignoble motion without object or sense or purpose. Existence is a Truth of things unfolding by a gradual process of manifestation, an evolution of its own involved Reality.

Existence is not an illusion, a Maya that had no reason, no business to exist, could not exist, does not exist but only seems to be. A mighty Reality manifests in itself this marvelous universe.

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Manifestation is not an episode of the Eternal. It is his face and body of glory that is imperishable, it is the movement of his joy and power...

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The Divine that we adore is not only a remote extra-cosmic Reality, but a half-veiled Manifestation present and near to us here in the universe. Life is the field of a divine manifestation not yet complete: here, in life, on earth, in the body, — ihniva,1 as the Upanishads insist, — we have to unveil the Godhead; here we must make its transcendent greatness, light and sweetness real to our consciousness, here possess and, as far as may be, express it.

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... man is a developing spirit trying here to find and fulfil itself in the forms of mind, life and body...

Sri Aurobindo

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1. here itself.

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