... all things that we see or do not see but are aware of,—men, things, ourselves, events, gods, titans, angels,—as one divine Brahman, and in action and attitude, an absolute self-surrender to the Paratpara Purusha, the transcendent, infinite and universal Personality who is at once personal and impersonal, finite and infinite, self-limiting and illimitable, one and many, and informs with his being not only... manifest and unmanifest existence, avyakto 'vyaktāt paraḥ . For behind the Sad Atman is the silence of the Asat which the Buddhist Nihilists realised as the śūnyam and beyond that silence is the Paratpara Purusha ( puruṣo vareṇya ādityavarṇas tamasaḥ parastāt ). It is he who has made this world out of his Page 76 being and is immanent in and sustains it as the infinite-finite Ishwara, ananta ...
... divinity by the murder of its self-expression. And to this we may arrive either by wilfulness of passion or by intellectual wilfulness. Instead of becoming gods, Suras, images of the Most High, the Paratpara Purusha in His effulgent glory, we may become misrepresentations of Him, false Page 385 because distorted images, distorted by imperfection, distorted by onesidedness, Titans, Asuras or else... purpose,—self-aware as the One & self-aware as the Many, self-aware as Sat & self-aware as Asat. This great self-aware transcendent more than universal existence we call Sa, Ishwara, "He", God, the Paratpara Purusha, the Higher than the Highest. We see therefore that these three names merely try to express in human language certain fundamental conceptions we have here of That which is not perfectly expressible... things which the Europeans call Nature or at the highest a resolution of our selves into that substratum of the objective in the Impersonal Brahman. The denial of the Transcendent Personality, the Paratpara Purusha is a strong tendency of the present-day Adwaita. "God", say these modern Adwaitins, "is a myth, or at most a Page 407 dream like ourselves. Just as there is no I, so there is no God ...
... knowableness in this partial manifestation,—for utterly That allows itself not to be known,—the Absolute first becomes—to the possibility of knowledge, not to its actuality—the Eternal Being or Paratpara Purusha, paro 'vyaktad avyaktah sanatanah, who beyond the uttermost darkness of the Asat, Sunyam Brahma or eternal nothingness which is the ultimate negation of this manifest existence shines ever with... perceives activity merely as the play of a dream on the surface of its imperturbable quiet. On the calm of the Nirgunam God next imposes Himself (adhyaropayati) as the Personality of the Eternal, the Paratpara Purusha manifest in relation to the world. Here first we get relation, quality, activity. At first, the Personality merely contains and informs the activity which plays in it not as unrealised dream, ...
... gives—they cannot get anything else. 9 January 1934 "For behind the Sad Atman is the silence of the Asat which the Buddhist Nihilists realised as the śūnyam and beyond that silence is the Paratpara Purusha (puruṣo vareṇya ādityavarṇas tamasaḥ parastāt)" [ p. 76 ]. The passage in Yoga and Its Objects is written from the point of view of the spiritualised Mind approaching the supreme Truth directly ...
... difficult medical case] sits; and the Purushottama crowns them all. I ask myself - whither, whither are you going, my friend, and what awaits you? Page 347 Sri Aurobindo: Perhaps the Paratpara Purusha beyond even the Purushottama. But why this pulled downness? You are not pulling down Purushottama or any other gentleman from the upper storey, are you? It is strain and want of rest, I suppose ...
... am feeling awfully pulled down, on top of that M 40 sits; and the Purushottama crowns them all. I ask myself—whither, whither are you going, my friend, and what awaits you? Perhaps the Paratpara Purusha beyond even the Purushottama. But why this pulled downness? You are not pulling down Purushottama or any other gentleman from the upper storey, are you? It is strain and want of rest, I suppose ...
... that Madangopal sits; and the Purushottam crowns them all. I ask myself—whither; whither are you going, Page 88 my friend and what awaits you? SRI AUROBINDO : Perhaps the Paratpara Purusha beyond even the Purushottama. But why this pulled downness? You are not pulling down Purushottama or any other gentleman from the upper storey, are you? It is strain and want of rest, I suppose ...
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