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... this for the simple reason that the birth of Maya, if it had any birth, took place on the other side of phenomena, before the origin of Time, Space and Causality; and is therefore not cognizable by the intellect which can only think in terms of Time, Space and Causality. A little reflection will show that the existence of Maya is necessarily involved even in the casting of the luminous shadow called ... Oneness which ties together and governs phenomena and rolls out the evolution of the worlds, is really the thing we call Time , since of the three original conditions of phenomenal existence, Time, Space and Causality, Time is a necessary part of the conception of Causality and can hardly be abstracted from the conception of Space, but neither Space nor Causality seems necessary to the conception of Time... . It may be otherwise expressed by Page 371 the word Freedom or by the word Immortality. All phenomenal things are bound by laws and limitations imposed by the triple idea of Time, Space and Causality; in Brahman alone there is absolute Freedom; for He has no beginning, middle or end in Time or Space nor, being immutable, in Causality. Regarded from the point of view of Time, Brahman is ...

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... although it is not in reality fluid or shifting, but constant, eternal and immutable, sanātana . It is the variety of its enjoyment in Time, Space and Causality that makes it kṣara . The enjoyment of the akṣara puruṣa is self-existent, beyond Time, Space and Causality, aware of but undisturbed by the continual multitudinous flux and reflux of Prakriti. The enjoyment of Purushottama is both in Prakriti... Space, bound by the work which he sanctions. He himself, being a part of God, is made in His image, of one nature with Him. Therefore what God is, he also is, only with limitation, subject to Time, Space and Causality, because he has, of his own will, accepted that bondage. He is the witness, and if he ceased to watch, the drama would stop. He is the source of sanction, and what he declares null and void ...

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... labour to produce an effect. Brahman has no cheshta. He wills and His Will spontaneously produces its effect. But it produces it in time, space and causality. To demand a result now here and under given conditions is Ajnanam. The time, space and causality of every event and its development have been fixed ages ago by yourself and Parameswara, when the Kalpa began. It is ignorance to struggle ...

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... other than Avidya, the great Illusion. She is that impalpable indeterminable source of subtle and gross matter, Matter in the abstract, the idea of difference and duality, the impression of Time, Space and Causality. The limited is limited not in reality, but by walls of Avidya which shut it in and give it an impression of existence separate from that of the illimitable, just as a room is shut off from... Spirit then has only three positive attributes, infinite and undefinable existence, consciousness and bliss, so original Matter has only three positive attributes, infinite and undefinable Time, Space and Causality—or, as Hindu thought phrases it, Condition. For the essence of Condition being change from one state to another, and each change standing in the relation of cause or origin to the one that ...

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... all their knots is egoism, the delusion that we have an individual existence sufficient in itself, separate from the universal and only being, ekamevadwitiyam, who is one not only beyond Time, Space and Causality. Not only are we all Brahman in our nature and being, waves of one sea, but we are each of us Brahman in His entirety, for that which differentiates and limits us, nama and rupa, exists only ...

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... limited by ahankara , but the will of the higher self is beyond ahankara and cannot be limited by it. It is omnipotent. But so long as it works through the body, it works under the laws of time, space and causality, and we have to wait for its fulfilment till the time is ready, the environment prepared, the immediate causes brought about. The will once at work infallibly brings about the necessary c ...

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... law and free. It is this power of sanction that forms the element of free will in our lives. The spirit consents not that itself shall be bound, but that its enjoyment should be bound by time, space and causality and by the swabhava and the dharma. It consents to virtue or sin, good fortune or evil fortune, health or disease, joy or suffering, or it refuses them. What it is attached to, that Nature ...

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... concerns a particle yet extends over more than one point of space and more than one instant of time and can be measured only by probabilities. The introduction of a fundamental probability amounts to an admission that in regard to the elementary particles the spatio-temporal scheme of our universe with its implication of physical causality is exceeded to a small degree. Could we interpret this... is in nature cannot be decided by merely logical causality: where physics is concerned physical observation is the deciding factor. Logical causality is neutral as between the statements of the two conflicting schools vis-a-vis Heisenberg's principle. It is not violated by the dropping of physical causality - and by jettisoning physical causality we do not cease to be scientific, for what is at the... basic quantities together and that, since correct predictions demand the knowledge of both of them at the same time, we can never have anything except a play of probability at the core of our knowledge in microphysics. From these admissions it can further be said that the law of causality which in physics would make for correct predictions from an accurate calculation of the "state" of a system - that ...

... then, the old causality come back - operating secretly? Must we endorse the opinion of D.J. Struik: "Statistical regularity is a result of causal relationships. No probability without causality"? Well, the old causal law cannot be accepted ~ unless we wish to negate the very principle on which modem physics is based. The negation would not only bring back the causal law but at the same time shut out both... Now, the principle of causality, as the physicist under- stands it, may be formulated, in the words of Ernst Zimmer, as follows: "When the state of a 'system' - that is, the position and velocity of all its parts - is known at a given moment, together with the forces which are operative in it Page 135 and on it, the state at any other moment of time can calculated." But, if... arrive at the making of certain predictions (or even predictions of approximate certainty)." So, we may dismiss the claim, anywhere or at any time in science, for an actually observed or observable operation of anything beyond very high probability. Causality, as scientifically understood, has been nothing more than a fond hope: no consideration on even macrophysical grounds can scientifically be adduced ...

... in the course of Nature is only a working out (Prakriti), by Causality, in Time and Space, of something that Brahman already possesses. Even in Its universal being Brahman exceeds the Movement. Exceeding Time, It contains in Itself past, present and future simultaneously and has not to run to the end of conceivable Time. Exceeding Space, It contains all formations in Itself coincidently Page... existence and non-existence are He. He is stable or unmoving, because motion implies change in Space and change in Time, and He, being beyond Time and Space, is immutable. He possesses eternally in Himself all that is, has been or ever can be, and He therefore does not increase or diminish. He is beyond causality and relativity and therefore there is no change of relations in His being. Page 21 ... We have to perceive all things in Space and Time, the far and the near, the immemorial Past, the immediate Present, the infinite Future with all their contents and happenings as the One Brahman. We have to perceive Brahman as that which exceeds, contains and supports all individual things as well as all universe, transcendentally of Time and Space and Causality. We have to perceive It also as that ...

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... timeless and spaceless and causeless infinity of the eternal containing all the infinities of space and time and the endless succession which humanly we call causality. But in fact causality is only an inferior aspect and translation into mental and vital terms of something which is not mechanical causality, but the harmonies of a free self-determination of the being of the Eternal. Truth is truth ...

... and determinism to be working from past to present to future. In the four-dimensional continuum of actually fused space and time, where the three times co-exist, there is evidently no one such unique direction for causality and determinism to work in. So the scientific use of causality and determinism may be considered as representing for practical purposes the truth only if the experience which leads... as if they them- selves were spread out in space. . Our heads are bound to grow dizzy with this import. But that is no test of its not being the truth. Nor can truth stop being truth when our heads grow dizzier still on our under­standing what the scientific concept of causality and deter­minism becomes in connection with this import. Strict causality and determinism are there in the sense of... though the Newtonian absolutes of space and time are abolished the relative space and time of Einstein are in fundamental nature the same as Newton's: Newton too was aware that at different stand- points different quantities are obtained for space and time and if he believed that the difference could be adjusted and a uniformity calculated in terms of absolute space and time it was because he did not know ...

... was erected. The chief among them were: (1) conservation of matter, (2) conservation of energy, (3) uniformity of nature and (4) the chain of causality and continuity. Above all, there was the fundamental implication of an independent—an absolute—time and space in which all things existed and moved and had their being. The whole business of experimental science was just to find the absolutes of... motion) that sought to replace the laws. of gravitation did away also with the concepts of force and causality: it stated that. things moved not because they were pulled or pushed but because they followed the natural curve of space (they describe geodesies, i.e., move in the line of least distance). Space is not a plain surface, smooth and uniform, 1 The constancy of the velocity of light, it... strewn about in an independently existing time and Page 234 an independently existing space. Einstein has demonstrated, it seems, successfully that there is no Time and no Space actually, but times and spaces (this reminds one of a parallel conception in Sankhya and Patanjali), that time is not independent of space (nor space of time) but that time is another coordinate or dimension necessary ...

... the account of the past and an unrealised infinite deposit to be taken from the future so as to be made valuable for Time-experience and valid for Time-activity. But, behind, all is known and ready for use according to the will of the Self in its dealings with Time and Space and Causality. Page 491 ... Knowledge and the Ignorance and so only can one arrive at the status of immortality.—Ignorance is therefore the consciousness of being in the succession of Time, and it is so called because, actually self-divided by the moments of Time, the field of space and the forms of the multiplicity, it cannot know either eternal Being or the World, either the transcendent or the universal reality. Its knowledge is... self is the Eternal who is capable simultaneously of the mobility in Time and the immobility basing Time. All object of knowledge is that real and eternal self whether seen in essence and stability or in phenomenon and instability of Time.—The Ignorance is a means by which it is rendered into values of knowledge and action, Time being a sort of bank on which we draw for valuation and action in the ...

... erected. The chief among them were: (I) conservation of matter, (2) conservation of energy, (3) uni­formity of nature and (4) the chain of causality and continuity. Above all, there was the fundamental implication of an independent – an absolute – time and space in which all things. existed and moved and had their being. The whole business of experimental science was just to find the absolutes... motion) that sought to replace the laws of gravitation did away also with the concepts of force and causality: it stated that things moved not because they were pulled or pushed but because they followed the natural curve of space (they describe geodesics, i.e., move in the line of least distance). Space is not a plain surface, smooth and uniform, -------------------------------------------... strewn about in an independently existing time and Page 314 an independently existing space. Einstein has demonstrated, it seems, successfully that there is no Time and no Space actually, but times and spaces (this reminds one of a parallel conception in Sankhya and Patanjali) , that time is not independent of space (nor space of time) but that time is another co-ordinate or dimension ...

... timeless absolute of conscious existence that is bliss; but the world is, on the contrary, an extension in Time and Space Page 153 and a movement, a working out, a development of relations and possibilities by causality—or what so appears to us—in Time and Space. The true name of this Causality is Divine Law and the essence of that Law is an inevitable self-development of the truth of the thing... is not therefore limited to one poise or one form of action. We, human beings, are phenomenally a particular form of consciousness, subject to Time and Space, and can only be, in our surface consciousness which is all we know of ourselves, one thing at a time, one formation, one poise of being, one aggregate of experience; and that one thing is for us the truth of ourselves which we acknowledge; all... and Force are the twin essential aspects of the pure Power of existence; Knowledge and Will must therefore be the form which that Power takes in creating a world of relations in the extension of Time and Space. This Knowledge and this Will must be one, infinite, all-embracing, all-possessing, all-forming, holding eternally in itself that which it casts into movement and form. The Supermind then is Being ...

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... svabh ā va, which is "determined by the compelling truth of the Real-Idea" in each thing. The world is a movement in time and space, its development is "a regulated interaction of related things in space to which succession of time gives the aspect of causality." The causality perceived by mind is not a law without exception. The mind is tempted to connect two consecutive events and establish... cases in which one finds that it is cured. Time and Space are the Conscious-Being viewing itself in extension subjectively as Time, objectively as Space. Space is, thus, the self-extension of the Infinite—the Brahman. Space is not empty, it is filled with the silence of the Infinite. "Mind measures time by event and space by matter." Time and Space are only two aspects of the universal force of... succession of time and divisions of space. When we say Supermind embraces and unifies the whole it means it does so "in a succession of developing harmony". If the Eternity of which we speak was static then all would exist in it and not be worked out. One has to use an analogy and imagine the creator of the universe as a poet or a dreamer. Things are worked out from within even in time, and not from ...

... self-knowledge in such a way as to make it valuable for Time-experience and valid for Time-activity; what we do not know is what we have not yet taken up, coined and used in our mental experience or have ceased to coin or use. Behind, all is known and all is ready for use according to the will of the Self in its dealings with Time and Space and Causality. One might almost say that our surface being is only... self-knowledge. For it would be irrational to suppose that the superconscient Knowledge is so aloof and separate as to be incapable of knowing Time and Space and Causality and their works; for then it would be only another kind of Ignorance, the blindness of the absolute being answering to the blindness of the temporal being as positive pole and negative pole of a conscious existence which is incapable... is a time-transcending eternity, the mind is still more ignorant of it; for it only knows the little of it that it can itself seize from moment to moment by fragmentary experience of its surface self-manifestation in Time and Space. If, then, mind is all or if the apparent mind in us is the index of the nature of our being, we can never be anything more than an Ignorance fleeting through Time and ...

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... such as those of infinity, eternity, universality, essence, explanation, causality and others have come to be dealt with during the last hundred years. 3 All these concepts have been scrutinized with the microscopic lens which permits only those deliverances which are ultimately warranted by physical senses. At one time, the knowledge of the phenomena was sought to be understood in the light... freak and fantasy of the world-phenomena, various theories have been developed to explain induction empirically without the need to acknowledge non-empirical belief in the laws of universality and causality. As a result, philosophers of science have largely come to the conclusion that scientific knowledge is bound to remain subject to various shades of scepticism or fallibility. It is against this... Descartes, who described matter as 'extended substance' and consciousness as 'thinking substance'. Evidently, by 'extended substance' Descartes meant something made up of distinct forms existing in space, in an order of extension and separation Page 7 basically similar to the one that we have been calling explicate. By using the term 'thinking substance' in such sharp contrast to ''extended ...

... of the cosmos. First there is the Brahman, the highest immutable self-existent being which all existences are behind the play of cosmic Nature in time and space and causality, deśa-kāla-nimitta . For by that self-existence alone time and space and causality are able to exist, and without that unchanging support omnipresent, yet indivisible they could not proceed to their divisions and results and measures... of being of each becoming, she creates the varied mutations by which she strives to express it, unrolls all her changes in name and form, in time and space and those successions of condition developed one out of the other in time and space which we call causality, nimitta . All this bringing out and continual change from state to state is Karma, is action of Nature, is the energy of Prakriti, the... supracosmic and although it is eternally unmanifest,—still "that supreme Purusha has to be won by a bhakti which turns to him alone in whom all beings exist and by whom all this world has been extended in space." In other words, the supreme Purusha is not an entirely relationless Absolute aloof from our illusions, but he is the Seer, Creator and Ruler of the worlds, kavim anuśāsitāram, dhātāram , and it is ...

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... spatial dimension that is time but fused with time to form a single four-dimensional continuum of "world-lines" in which space and time lose their difference and separateness to become equal and interchangeable - a single continuum of space-time which is describable in terms of deterministic causality in the sense that it is unbroken in its "world-lines" but in which causality and determinism lose their... with its fused and interchange- able space and time and of past and present and even future co-existing in it and leaving deterministic causality without any significant physical direction, or of matter not only exchanging its own description with energy but appearing in some properties to be a mere singularity of what is symbolised as "curvature" of the space-time continuum where there is neither matter... independence of physical space and time, though having contact with them all, and as operating with a telepathic and precognitive faculty that can best be termed intuition and that, as the provisionally epiphenomenalist Margaret Knight admits, entails the causing of an event in the present by an event in the future, thus revolutionising the whole meaning of time and causality accepted by materialism ...

... the advent of Einstein this lucidity disappeared: a "curved" non-euclidian four-dimensional continuum of fused space and time is "mist and clouds" with quite a vengeance. So too is the world or quanta in which we are asked by Bohr to choose between non-causality in space and time or causality without them! Even the fact that no mechanical model can represent now the ultimate processes of physical Nature... . Even in the realm of modern science we have passed far beyond ordinary lucidity. Not that the ideas of what is called classical or Newtonian physics were in themselves axiomatic: absolute space, for instance - an utter omnipresent void which is yet a substantial stationary entity determining and affecting measurements of physical processes - is hardly a very clear idea. Neither is the force... is precisely one who has, to say the least, transcended the physical body-formula. Mystical experience brings to light several "sheaths" other than the physical. The Yogi is awake in them at the same time he lives in the latter, and he can at any moment put his body in a state of trance and move out in them. Death, in the common connotation, is to him merely a permanent leaving of the physical sheath ...

... writes to us from Pondicherry:— While thanking you for the generous appreciation in your review of the "Arya", may I also crave the indulgence of your columns,—if indeed you can spare so much space at such a time when the whole world is absorbed in the gigantic homicidal conflict convulsing Europe,—for an answer to your criticisms on my "Secret of the Veda", or rather to an explanation of my standpoint... records have either been lost or are to be found in the Veda itself. I cannot see how this argument involves a regressus ad infinitum except in so far as the whole idea of evolution and progressive causality lies open to that objection. As to the origins of the Vedic religion, that is a question which cannot be solved at present for lack of data. It does not follow that it had no origins or in other words... of Aryan Speech". I hope also to lead up to a recovery of the sense of the ancient spiritual conceptions of which old symbol and myth give us the indications and which I believe to have been at one time a common culture covering a great part of the globe with India, perhaps, as a centre. In its relation to this methodical attempt lies the only originality of the "Secret of the Veda". The Hindu ...

... are adepts in hypothesis, speculation and bold generalisation; they can reduce to an algebraic formula or an equation in Tensor Calculus the mysterious and manifold workings in four-dimensional Space-Time; and they can psycho-analyse the Cosmic-self itself! These are the symbol Einsteins, Plancks, Rutherfords and Freuds who draw Necessity's logarithmic tables and derive "the calculus of Destiny"... Not Heaven, not quite earth, this is a transitionary rest-place, inhabited by powers and presences who maintain a fruitful commerce with the human world. Thanks to them, the elementary laws of causality are deduced, matter's movements are conned, and knowledge is "built from the cells of inference into a fixed body flasque and perishable". The observance of new facts leads to new formulations of... determined to revisit his native place, and so he makes the supreme effort:   On meditation's mounting edge of trance Great stairs of thought climbed up to unborn heights Where Time's last ridges touch eternity's skies And Nature speaks to the spirit's absolute. 105   Fust to meet Aswapati is "a triple realm of ordered thought", which is reached by "a triple flight" ...

... of Time, a relation in Space and a regulated interaction of related things in Space to which the succession of Time gives the aspect of Causality. Time and Space, according to the metaphysician, have only a conceptual and not a real existence; but since all things and not these only are forms assumed by Conscious-Being in its own consciousness, the distinction is of no great importance. Time and Space... ing harmony to the Supermind because it views all things in a multiple unity. Besides, the mind sees only a given time and space and views many possibilities pell-mell as all more or less realisable in that time and space; the divine Supermind sees the whole extension of Time and Space and can embrace all the mind's possibilities and very many more not visible to the mind, but without any error, groping... Space are that one Conscious-Being viewing itself in extension, subjectively as Time, objectively as Space. Our mental view of these two categories is determined by the idea of measure which is inherent in the action of the analytical, dividing movement of Mind. Time is for the Mind a mobile extension measured out by the succession of the past, present and future in which Mind places itself at a certain ...

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... process or order of things it prefers. Nimitta, 2 process or order, figured in relation, succession & causality, is the third symbol of consciousness by which cosmos is rendered possible; for it makes possible arrangement of things in the idea of Space & arrangement of happenings in the idea of Time. Will is in its nature Power of Knowledge or Act of Knowledge; therefore, Page 540 when analysed... that the change is not really a change, but only a successive presentation of ever recurrent phenomena to the Time-governed eye of conscious Mind. These changes are a play of self-ideas in Conscious Being existing for ever beyond Time & Space, but represented for us in the symbols of Time & Space. Such as they are, the succession of these changes affected by action of man or action of Nature are not binding... Pure-Self-Awareness; Sat = Chit,—this is the first formula on which becoming depends. Atman extends itself in the secondary terms of Space & Time, which are conscious values of this biune Being that is Consciousness, Space in this formula representing the term of Being, Time the term of Consciousness; but when analysed or realised, they inevitably reduce themselves back into mere figures of extension of ...

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... manuscript. See the footnote on page 378 . ] The world & God. What is the world? It is jagati, says the Rishi, she who is constantly moving. The essence of the world is not Space nor Time nor Circumstance which we call Causality—its essence is motion. Not only so, but every single force & object in it is of the same nature, it is a jagat, a knot of habitual motion. The ancient Hindus knew that the earth ...

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... what the time-space fusion implies. Not that time becomes a space-dimension but it acquires the character, in time-terms, of what a fourth dimension would have in space-terms, exactly as all points of length, breadth and height have to be conceived as coexistent in space, so also by being held in a single though not necessarily sym­metrical formula with these points all moments of time ­past, present... wrong and showed the physical universe to be inexplicable in their terms. This is the fundamental revolu­tion by relativity theory: its crowning concept is the "curved" continuum in which space-measures and time-measures are indistinguishably fused, a mysterious continuum underlying the world we study with our instruments. The revolution has been interpreted in several ways by philosophers and, though... have to be conceived as co-existent as if in the totality of an ever-standing Now. There seems to be here a physical suggestion of the mystic's vision of Eternity. Again, what was understood as causality or determinism, the linkage of events by a power from the past, so to speak, assumes a new complexion. If the past, present and future are co-existent, a power from the present such as we feel in ...

... Sa paryagāt . In this extension we have, therefore, two aspects, one of pure infinite relationless immutability, another of a totality of objects Page 43 in Time and Space working out their relations through causality. Both are different and mutually complementary expressions of the same unknowable "He". To express the infinite Immutability the Upanishad uses a series of neuter adjectives... as "Manishi", becomes form of Himself in the movement in Space and Time as "Paribhu". These three are one operation appearing as successive in the relative, temporal and spatial Consciousness. It follows that every object holds in itself the law of its own being eternally, śāśvatībhyaḥ samābhyaḥ , from years sempiternal, in perpetual Time. All relations in the totality of objects are thus determined... executive Force contained and inactive. It is "bodiless",—without form, indivisible and without appearance of division. It is one equal Purusha in all things, not divided by the divisions of Space and Time,—a pure self-conscious Absolute. It is without scar, that is, without defect, break or imperfection. It is untouched and unaffected by the mutabilities. It supports their clash of relations ...

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... manifest. They are already there in Being, not in Time. The universal Thought expressing itself as Time reaches them, they seem to be born; It passes away from them, they seem to perish; but there they still are, in Being, but not in Time. These Page 282 two greatnesses of the appearance of things in Time & Space & their disappearance in Time & Space act always & continuously so long as the Horse... this image about Time the idea of it as an unknown power—for Time which is its self or body, is itself an unknown quantity. The reality which expresses itself to us through Time—its body—but remains itself ungrasped, must be still what men have always felt it to be, the unknown God. In the images that immediately follow we have the conception of Space added to the conception of Time and both are brought... & intentionally of the connection of Time to Space. The seasons, determined for us by the movements of the sun & stars, are the flanks of the horse and he stands upon the months and the fortnights—the lunar divisions. Space, then, is the flesh constituting materially this body of Time which the Sage attributes to his Horse of the worlds,—by movement in Space its periods are shaped & determined. Therefore ...

... the stellar cycle of "contraction and re-expansion" which the Time-extract speaks of. The world in which lives Man turned Godlike cannot remain subject to the laws we scientifically regard as inexorable. Not only his own being but also his environment will be subject to the Divine Will set active fully in the universe of time and space. The physical sun is a symbol of the highest supramental creative... from matter and pass into a non-spatial non-temporal dimension. The Omega Point postulated by the Anthropic Principle is unlike Teilhard's, a perpetual fullness of being within the framework of time and space. There it makes contact from the scientific side with the Page 86 vision of the Integral Yoga. But there is no sign in it, as there is none also in Teilhard's "super-consciousness"... A spur to it was given by the role of the "observer" in current quantum mechanics, a role which is sometimes taken to be such that, in a world which is subject to probability instead of classical causality, the observer, by choosing a particular set-up of observational apparatus, gets a particular picture of the physical world realised: he thus creatively turns its probability into a fact. Whether this ...

... ineluctable dominion of an unending causality. If it can be shown that the dominion is not ineluctable or man himself is or may be above causality, its master and not under its control, then the whole elaborate chain forged for us by outward world-appearances crumbles in a moment to pieces. For Indian philosophy the main practical application for man of the chain of causality was the Law of Rebirth,—a law... of all time & space & to exceed & go beyond all time & all space, a principle we can not only perceive, feel & possess but in which we can live. Hallucination or no hallucination, this is a thing which can be seen, can be grasped, can be sensed by the mind, can be entered into, can be lived. Fact of material existence or no, it is an indubitable fact of spiritual experience and seems for a time to be... explain to itself its own existence. What then is the cause of these thinkings, doings, happenings? Obviously, they must be the workings of material Force of which the chief process is a mechanical causality. Previous workings produce as causes by an unchanging, inherent law of action other workings of Force which stand to them as effects; they in their turn join the general sum of causation, helping ...

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... there is, as well as a shifting or change of Time-point and Space-field, a constant modifying change of the sum of circumstances experienced in Time and Space and as the result a constant modification of the mental personality which is the form of our superficial or apparent self. All this change of circumstance is summed up in philosophical language as causality; for in this stream of the cosmic movement... substance of being in Space is a flowing sea not divided in itself, but only divided in the observing consciousness because our sense-faculty is limited in its grasp, can see only a part and is therefore bound to observe forms of substance as if they were separate things in themselves, independent of the one substance. There is indeed an arrangement of things in Space and Time, but no gap or division... without theorising, studying it only in its facts. We see it first as a purely subjective phenomenon. There is a constant rapid shifting of Time-point which it is impossible to arrest for a moment. There is a constant changing, even when there is no shifting of Space circumstance, a change both in the body or form of itself which the consciousness directly inhabits and the environing body or form of things ...

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... conception of Time, Space & Causality; it does not move in reality, because these are mere symbols, conceptual translations of the actual truth, & movement itself is only such a symbol. The Habitation is the creation of a formative movement of Prakriti, who is indeed always recurrent in her doings because she & her ways are eternal, but also always mutable & inconstant because she works in Time, Space & Causality... achalah sanatanah, one, motionless, without change or end. This side of the Sun or that side of Lyra are to Him one point, or rather no point at all. Space is a symbol into which Thought has translated an arrangement in supraspatial Consciousness. Time & Causality are not different. Therefore it appears that both jagati & jagat are no movement of matter or material force, (that is expressly excluded in the... mysterious activity the essence of which is limitless & absolute Awareness not expressible in language, but translated Page 393 in the symbols of our Thought here into a movement in Time, Space & Causality. This universal tenet of Vedanta, although not expressly stated, is yet implied in the Rishi's thought & follows inevitably from his expression. He could very well in his age & surroundings ...

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... only given the poet his best chance to complete his complex play of idea, emotion and image at one stretch but also helped him convey to us the sense of a long sustained continued movement through time and space, a life's journey of repeated risks with yet the Divine's presence subtly assured as going with it. And both the companionship and the risks are hinted at as being constant by the r-note running... past nor wholly affected by concern for the future but can choose our line of action as we want, in however limited and momentary a measure. This intuition has always been a puzzle in a cosmos of causality in the scientific view, a cosmos of foreknowledge and fate in the spiritual vision. But, if at each instant there is no determination from either the past or the future and the cosmos is born straight... us at all times to the Mother's revelation of what a phrase in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri calls the Divine Magician's freedom pacing in the same step with law and thus leaving for us also a breathing-space, as it were, of liberty - this clue is our intuition of "freewill". Without knowing the reason - namely, that the world emerges fresh and new all the while from the Divine's depth — we have continually ...

... geometry! Next we arrive at the most fruitful epoch of modern science, the 19th century, of which the representative spirit was Laplace. It was the hey-day of 'determinism', 'principle of strict causality' and the 'mechanistic view-point'. According to this view all phenomena in the universe could be reduced to the motion of particles and bodies under the influence of forces; and the ideal description... with respect to the state of the system in question at a given instant, determined that system's behaviour at all later moments. This programme of determinism based itself on the principle of strict causality applied to all physical phenomena and since in physics we deal in particular with those aspects which can be expressed in terms of numbers, this causal correlation took the form of mathematical equations... December 5, 1956. Page 54 Adventure Beckons Science Now, what should science do in this "God's stupendous hour"? All the three pillars - mathematics, logic and causality - on which it tried to base its materialistic creed have lost their inviolable character. The man of science has been forced by the advancing tide of knowledge to change and reconstruct these again ...

... covering Page 198 not space alone but time also. At least Dr. Jacobi, with Jung's authority behind her, has written: "The unconscious manifests itself in such a way that it seems to stand outside of space and time: it is spaceless and timeless." We have, on the other hand, no reason to think of brains as being free of time- limitations any more than of space-limitations. A physical e... essence of the specific mystery of precognition - is not avoided by Saltmarsh's theory. Even to Page 196 touch the future 3 seconds ahead is to revolutionise the whole meaning of time and causality and to raise the query whether the new meaning is compatible with materialism. Mrs. Knight records that most workers in the field of ESP argue that no physical cause can account for a subject's... H.F. Saltmarsh. Saltmarsh pointed out that (as has long been recognised) what we experience as 'now' has always some extension in time. Experiences, one might say, do not drop into the past, but fade into the past; a moment of time with no duration, like a point in space with no magnitude, is a mere conceptual artefact. Furthermore, the duration of the 'specious present', as it is technically called ...

... also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; He is Space and all that Page 338 is in Space; He is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and... status of consciousness in which they manifest. In other words there is a different Time and Space for each status of our consciousness and even different movements of Time and Space within each status; but all would be renderings of a fundamental spiritual reality of Time-Space. In fact, when we go behind physical Space, we become aware of an extension on which all this movement is based and this extension... reality of Space begins to become apparent when we draw back from the physical: for then we become aware of a subjective Space-extension in which mind itself lives and moves and which is other than physical Space-Time, and yet there is an interpenetration; for our mind can move in its own space in such a way as to effectuate a movement also in space of Matter or act upon something distant in space of Matter ...

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... y accepted regularity. Although there are stretchings and squeezings of temporal experience in different spatial locations, under normal circumstances, time is more or less uniform, in given situations, at least its effect is uniformly spaced. Time, decay, old age and death are real for all living beings, however varied be the response to them. Consider Corneille's famous observation: "Every moment... as a residual gift of the visionary eye. Transience is a truth but once we internalise this we learn to see the Page 343 world afresh, unbound from the wheel of change and causality.   The creative surfaces in the deeps of subjectivity, offering a momentary respite, endowing the humblest phenomenon with the appearance of sublimity . Even the meanest flower that blows... Eliot.   Time could be seen in different aspects - the conventional and the biological. As we measure conventional time by the swinging of the pendulum or the lengthening of the shadows, or the movements of the hands of a watch, we realise the internal time by the change of our inner perceptions. If we are eagerly awaiting an event or a person we might feel the drag of time, but on the other ...

... expresses an insatiable thirst for knowledge, is working out something like a terrestrial omnipotence for humanity. Space and Time are contracting to the vanishing-point in its works, and it strives in a hundred ways to make man the master of circumstance and so lighten the fetters of causality. The idea of limit, of the impossible begins to grow a little shadowy and it appears instead that whatever man... unreality. They may satisfy for a time the logical reason which deals only with pure ideas, but they cannot satisfy the mind's sense of actuality. For the mind knows that there is something behind itself which is not the Idea; it knows, on the other hand, that there is something within itself which is more than the vital Breath. Either Spirit or Matter can give it for a time some sense of ultimate reality;... bankruptcy in the things of the Spirit. Nor has the intellect, which sought the solution of all problems in the one term of Matter, found satisfaction in the answer that it has received. Therefore the time grows ripe and the tendency of the world moves towards a new and comprehensive affirmation in thought and in inner and outer experience and to its corollary, a new and rich self-fulfilment in an integral ...

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... from this seeing there arises the idea of a free and infinite Will, a Will of illimitable potentiality which determines all these innumerable marvels of its own universal becoming or creation in Space and Time. That means the absolute freedom of a Spirit and Power which is not determined by Karma, but Page 344 determines Karma. Apparent Necessity is the child of the spirit's free self-de... always in some sort questionable. We get a perception of a law of Karma, the constant unavoidable successions of the acts of energy and its insistent stream of consequences and reactions, the chain of causality, the great mass of past causes behind us from which all future consequence ought infallibly to unroll itself, and by this we try to explain the universe; but then immediately there arises the opposite... moment of the present and separates it by ignorance, by an abstraction of the mind from its determining past, so that I seem at every critical moment to exercise a free and virgin choice, while all the time my choice is dominated by its own previous formation and by all that obscure past which I ignore? Granted that Nature works through our will and can create and change, can, that is to say, produce a ...

... eternal, not in time, not at a particular date & season, but eternally, before Time was. The Law did not spring into being, but was, is & for ever shall be. The forms of objects, it is true, vary in Time, but the law of their nature is of eternal origin. In the act you do today, you are obeying a Law which has existed during the whole of eternity. Try to realise it, and you will see Time & Space vanishing... implies. And yet all the time He who outstrips all others, is not running, but standing. While we are toiling after Him, He is all the time here, at our side, before, behind us, with us, in us. Really He does not move at all; all this motion is the result of our own Avidya which by persuading us to imagine ourselves as limited, subjects our thoughts to the conditions of Time & Space. Brahman in all his... only—do not cling to a man, do not bind him in their invisible chains but fall from him as the water from the wings of the swan. They cannot bind him, because he is freed from the woven net of causality. Causality springs from the idea of duality, the idea of sorrow & happiness, love & hate, heat & cold which arises from Avidya and he, having renounced desire and realised Unity, is above Avidya and above ...

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... human senses. To some beings space is one-dimensional, to others two-dimensional, to others three dimensional—but there are other dimensions also. It is well recognised in metaphysics that the Infinite can be in a point and not only in extension of space—just as there is an eternity of Page 400 extension in Time but also an Eternity which is independent of Time so that it can be felt in the... very act mould his infinity into a limited finite? How then does he still continue to rule over the universe? Do you imagine that the Divine is at any time not everywhere in the universe or beyond it? or that he is living at one point in space and governing the rest from it, as Mussolini governs the Italian Empire from Rome? 11 May 1937 The Avatar and the Vibhuti Is it true that the Avatar... Middle Narayan oil—there have been several—have appeared only as meaningless foam and froth on the excited crest of the dispute. I fear you have not grasped the internalities and modalities and causalities of my high and subtle reasoning. It is not surprising as you are down down in the troughs of the rigidly logically illogical human reason while I am floating on the heights amid the infinite plasticities ...

... resurrection, my point was that the appearances of Jesus after the resurrection were in space and time, though his body did not obey the normal laws of Page 208 causality. That is why I spoke of a subtle body. It was only after the ascension that it became a spiritual body beyond time and space. But this again depends on how you conceive the whole 'mystery' of the resurrection... Spirit; the actual cells were trans- Page 203 formed, appearing first as a 'subtle' body, then at the ascension as a 'spiritual' body no longer subject to the laws of space, time and causality. I admit that the Virgin Birth does not stand at the same level as the Resurrection. It is not one of the foundation beliefs of Christianity and as Raymond Brown says, it could be... the end you go a little wrong: a body that could enter a room whose doors and windows were shut, and that could appear and disappear at will is already "no longer subject to the laws of space, time and causality". On the evidence of both Luke and John (if Page 205 acceptable as factual and not, as Catholic exegetes are now free to believe, exemplifying "dramatisation"), we ...

... unreal all that mind has known, All that the labouring senses still would weave Prolonging an imaged unreality. Self's vast spiritual silence occupies space; Only the Inconceivable is left, Only the Nameless without space and time: .Abolished is the burdening need of life: Thought falls from us, we cease from joy and grief; The ego is dead; we are free from being and care... rebirth makes accessible to it. The whole problem changes its aspect when viewed from the standpoint of evolution. The traditional idea subjects rebirth to the rigid determinism of the chain of causality, and regards it as a bondage and burden of the soul, from which an escape is the only release; while, according to Sri Aurobindo, rebirth is the only means of evolution and liberation, and once they... what are these new factors? They are the different lines of evolution that the psychic being takes up for development in its successive births. For, the psychic being is not bound by the chain of causality; it is the determining agent, in union with the divine Will in it, of the purpose and processes of its incarnations. It freely accepts the conditions and inherent limitations of the material life ...

... Ablaze in the will of the mortal, design the wonder of thy plan, Image of Immortality, outbreak of the Godhead in man... 91   Time waits, vacant, the Lightning that kindles, Page 41 the Word that transfigures: Space is a stillness of God building his earthly abode... 92   And a huddle of melancholy hills in the distance... 93   In several... casual by-product of the political period, Prince of Edur has undertones that strike responsive chords within, and albeit the play is unfinished, one can infer the conclusion in terms of poetic causality. Love is the supreme reality—although it may assume different forms like compassion, adoration, love of the woman, love of the mother. Be it Andromeda, Vasavadutta, Rodogune, Anice-al-jalice, Aslaug... splendour, and the trees       Of rain-time waving wide their lavish bloom       Fan me...the mountains are my citizens,       They pour out all their streams to swell my greatness... 104   It is natural to pass on from The Hero and the Nymph to Sri Aurobindo's own plays. Of these latter, only one— Perseus the Deliverer —appeared in his own life-time. Four other five act plays— Vasavadutta ...

... wallowing in the dirt and the same child cleaned by his mother and resplendent, but each time I trembled before his utter purity. 32) What I wished or thought to be the right thing, does not come about; therefore it is clear that there is no All Wise one who guides the world but only blind Chance or a brute Causality. 33) The Atheist is God playing at hide & seek with Himself; Page 426 ... of Immortality, live not thou according to Nature, but according to God; and compel her also to live according to the deity within thee. 130) Fate is God's foreknowledge outside Space & Time of all that in Space & Time shall yet happen; what He has foreseen, Power & Necessity work out by the conflict of forces. 131) Because God has willed and foreseen everything, thou shouldst not therefore sit... art thou on the straight path to liberation. 180) There are lesser & larger eternities, for eternity is a term of the soul & can exist in Time as well as exceeding it. When the Scriptures say "śaśwatih samah", they mean for a long space & permanence of time or a hardly measurable aeon; only God Absolute has the absolute eternity. Yet when one goes within, one sees that all things are secretly eternal; ...

... confines of a two-dimensional space and makes a futile attempt to explain it in that impossible way. This cannot but lead to various types of self-contradictions. And mind wonders confusedly how to reconcile the pairs of apparently 'irreconcilable' opposite truths; such as, personal effort and the action of Grace; free-will and determinism; law and miracles; causality and finalism; etc. (4)Mind... (4)Mind is by nature exclusive in its tendency. It fails to hold all the facets of a truth in the bosom of a harmonised synthesis. Hence its intolerant declaration: "Both cannot be true at the same time; either A or B but surely not A and B; if P is possible, Q is bound to be impossible." In this way mind becomes the progenitor of numerous dogmas and inflexible opinions. (5)Mind moves from... at any moment of one's life, it becomes very difficult for the mind of the sadhaka to come to any sure decision. Man has lost the surity of the species-instinct of sub-human creatures but at the same time has not gained the far greater certainty of spiritual in-tuition. Hence is the sadhaka' s mind always in a state of vacillation . For his mind can, with its so-called logical dexterity, furnish equally ...

... own being and you will possess the integral God-union, the whole and flawless Yoga. "The Supreme is the Purushottama, eternal beyond all manifestation, infinite beyond all limitation by Time or Space or Causality or any of his numberless qualities and features. But Page 577 this does not mean that in his supreme eternity he is unconnected with all that happens here, cut off from world... faith and made real and living to the mind, heart and life? It is the knowledge of the supreme Soul and Spirit in its oneness and its wholeness. It is the knowledge of One who is for ever, beyond Time and Space and name and form and world, high beyond his own personal and impersonal levels and yet from whom all this proceeds, One whom all manifests in manifold Nature and her multitude of figures. It is... partiality, preference or attachment to any person or thing or happening or feature all this infinite manifestation in Time and the universe. This pure and equal Self does not act, but supports impartially all the action of things. And yet it is the Supreme, but as the cosmic Spirit and the Time Spirit, who wills and conducts and determines the action of the world through his multitudinous power-to-be, that ...

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... nor assign to them the same significance. In particular, the principle of causality which governs our comprehension of the universe—but which the subatomic world eludes—and, consequently, which dominates our sense of Good and Evil and retribution, extending to the notion of the Last Judge ment and the "End of Time"—are purely and simply a matter of our sensory instruments. It should be stressed... actions. Relative to time and place, the latter will not entail any definitive retribution. In the absence of a judgment, we shall begin to understand what the new beings will spontaneously know: that nothing in Time and Space results of nothing; contrary to what the mental imagines in the linearity of its perception, all is a single movement which goes beyond Space and Time. As long as we believe... statement to the Corinthians (I, 15, 51), "...we shall all be changed", should be understood. This does not mean that a metamorphosis must occur in a brief space of time in some distant future, but that we are all in the process of being transformed. A time will come when we understand this, for we shall then see how different we are from man as he now is and recognize that this difference has resulted of ...

... and we have to posit a necessary Being as the ground of the contingent. The other form of proof makes use of the principle of causality. In our experienced world effects are always preceded by causes, and these in turn are the effects of other causes. So the chain of causality runs back step by step. But an infinite line of causes is impossible, and there must come a point in the series at which we arrive... the idea of God as the absolute Being is in a different position. On this ground Hegel tried to rehabilitate the Ontological Proof. In the Hegelian terminology, the being of a finite object in space and time is discrepant from its notion. "God, on the contrary, expressly has to be what can only be 'thought as existing'; His notion involves being." "Certainly it would be strange if the notion, the very... seeks to embrace experience in all its fulness. Hence postulates made from a partial point of view may require to be modified or supplemented from the point of view of the whole. At the present time there are special grounds why those who Page 25 are sincerely interested in religion should not shrink from facing the problem raised by its data. The spirit of positivism and agnosticism ...

... beyond our notions of space and time; the centre is everywhere, the circumference is nowhere. Dante's triple worlds, although superficially geographical, are actually psychological states. Where Dante is religious, theological and mediaeval, Sri Aurobindo is spiritual, scientific and modem; what Dante did with such superb psychological and clinical precision for his time, Sri Aurobindo has done... able to invade the occult Invisible: A voyager upon uncharted routes Fronting the viewless danger of the Unknown, Adventuring across enormous realms, He broke into another Space and Time. 30 After a Divina-Commedia-like journey covering the world-stair — Ascending and descending twixt life's poles The seried kingdoms of the graded Law — 31 Aswapati... description of the earth Athwart the vain enormous trance of Space, Its formless stupor without mind or life, A shadow spinning through a soulless Void, Thrown back once more into unthinking dreams, Earth wheeled abandoned in the hollow gulfs... 56 because, after all, only half the earth is dark at any time, Sri Aurobindo answered: I am not writing a scientific treatise ...

... do, today. While this has not come into being yet it has advanced so far that space and time have been reduced to the vanishing point. You start on the 20th and go to a place on the 19th ! Even science has done it, it wants to make man the master of circumstances and to make him outgrow his limits,—to overcome causality, if he can. Of course, he does not do it individually. Today scientific research... complete translation of all the hymns to Agni in the ten Mandalas which kept close to the text; the renderings of those hymns in the second and sixth Mandalas are now published in this book for the first time as well as a few from the first Mandala. But to establish on a scholastic basis the conclusions of the hypothesis it would have been necessary to prepare an edition of the Rig Veda or of a large part... to solve it, and has not to be satisfied with it. If man is satisfied with contradiction as he finds it, he does not progress. The present contradiction cannot therefore be taken to be final. At one time the mastery over Nature was inconceivable but now man has actually established it. It was impossible to cross the sea. It has now become possible to cross the sea. It was impossible to fly in the air ...

... what we call the universe (sah paryāgat). In that extension, there are two aspects, one of pure infinite relationless immutability, another of a totality of objects in Time and Space working 'out their relations through causality. .Both are different and Page 46 yet complementary expressions of the same unknowable "He". To express the infinite Immutability, the Isha Upanishad uses... in the universe, — all names and forms (nāma rūpa) and the infinite multiplicity of things and beings; that reality, the essence remains always identical with itself, since the concepts of Space and Time do not apply to it; it is the one unmoving, it is That which moves dot. But this is not the full description of the ultimate reality. That Brahman, although inactive, is not impotent; all the energy... reality is described as bright because it is concentrated Self-awareness; it is bodiless, as it is without form, indivisible and without appearance of division; it is not divided by the division of Space and Time, — a pure self-conscious Absolute. It is without scar because it is without defect or break and it is untouched by the mutabilities. It is without sinews, since it does not dispense forth in multiple ...

... vyapti, but cannot perceive consistently decisive event or true order. It is now being shown, more convincingly than before, that all false arrangements are true arrangements elsewhere, in other space or time or both, but here effective as only true type of a potential or actual possibility working as one of the forces of conscious knowledge in the world Page 358 which determine partially... the eventuality of things; first; arrangement of potential possibilities and their event, proper to the imagination, which may be eventually fulfilled but usually are not, except in quite another space or time or under quite other circumstances; 2, arrangement of actual possibilities and their reasonable event, proper to the judgment & reasoning intelligence, which often are fulfilled, but quite as often... violence certain features of the old asamata and duhkham connected with the asraddha. The effects were entirely physical and mechanical and had no psychological reality or importance or any just causality. They seem to be a physical adjunct always possible by mechanical revival of old sanskara when dwelling on the plane of mortal mind or in any condition exposed to shadows from the martya manas in ...

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... beyond our notions of space and time; the centre is everywhere, the circumference is nowhere. Dante's triple worlds, although superficially geographical, are actually psychological states. Where Dante is religious, theological and medieval, Sri Aurobindo is spiritual, scientific and modem; what Dante did with such superb psychological and clinical precision for his time, Sri Aurobindo has done... able to invade the occult Invisible: A voyager upon uncharted routes Fronting the viewless danger of the Unknown, Adventuring across enormous realms, He broke into another Space and Time. 38 After a divina-commedia-like. journey covering the world-stair - Ascending and descending twixt life's poles The seried kingdoms of the graded Law - 39 Aswapathy... earth - Athwart the vain enormous trance of Space, Its formless stupor without mind or life, A shadow spinning through a soulless Void, Thrown back once more into unthinking dreams, Earth wheeled abandoned in the hollow gulfs... 64 because, after all, only half the earth is dark at any time, Sri Aurobindo answered: I am not writing a ...

... and for a space consider the circumstances of the people near, that he might do them good. And, at the fall of the day, the folk from the neighbouring villages or towns would gather together at the place he was lodging, and to them, seated in the lecture hall, would he, in a manner suitable to the occasion, and to their beliefs, discourse on the Truth. Then, seeing that the proper time had come, he... t, which only the wise can grasp. Man moves in an earthly sphere, in an earthly sphere he has his place and finds his enjoyment. For him, it will be ' difficult to grasp this matter, the law of causality, the chain of causes and effects, the extinction \ of all conformations; the withdrawal from all that is earthly, the extinction of desire, the i cessation of longing, the end, the Nirvana. And... eventually achieved Nirvana. Page 85 Tevigga Sutta At one time when the Buddha was journeying through Kosala in the company of about five hundred disciples, he came to the Brahmin village of Manasakata. There he stayed in the mango grove on the bank of the river Akiravati to the south of Manasakata. At that time, many distinguished and wealthy Brahmins were living at Manasakata; among ...

... but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the timeless and Time; he is Space and all that is in Space; he is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances... existence by taking refuge in our concept of Time. In reply to that argument, Sri Aurobindo points out that Time, as we know or conceive it, is only our means of realizing things in succession, it is a condition and cause of conditions, it varies on different planes of existence, it varies even for beings on one and the same plane. In other words, Time is not Absolute and cannot explain the primary... detail by Time and seem to our mental and vital being to be determined by it; but that seeming does not carry us back to their sources and principles. "We make the distinction of conditioned and unconditioned," Sri Aurobindo points out, "and we imagine that the unconditioned became conditioned, the Infinite became finite at some date in Time, and may cease to be finite at some other date in Time, because ...

... Middle Narayan oil -there have been several — have appeared only as meaningless foam and froth on the excited crest of the dispute. I fear you have not grasped the internalities and modalities and causalities of my high and subtle reasoning. It is not surprising as you are down down in the troughs of the rigidly logically illogical human reason while I am floating on the heights amid the infinite plasticities... A street beggar cannot have any spirituality or at least not so much as , let us say, a University graduate - because, well, one doesn't know why the hell not. No. 5. (and last because of want of space) Because I am a doctor, I can't see a joke when it is there. NB: But how terrifying is your "Look here"! What I have heard about your extreme seriousness in former days, is quite enough not to... since I was the Divine and nothing could touch me and none follow me. That is truly a discovery, a downright knock-out which leaves me convinced, convicted, amazed, gasping. I won't go on, there is no space; but there are a score of other luminous convictions that your logic has forced on me. But what to do next? You have put me in a terrible fix and I see no way out of it. For if the Way, the Yoga is ...

... you will possess the integral God-union, the whole and flawless Yoga. "The Supreme is the Purushottama, eternal beyond all manifestation, infinite beyond all limitation by Time or Space Page 80 or Causality or any of his numberless qualities and features. But this does not mean that in his supreme eternity he is unconnected with all that happens here, cut off from world and Nature... living to the mind, heart and life? It is the knowledge of the supreme Soul and Spirit in its oneness and its wholeness. It is the knowledge of One who is for Page 78 ever, beyond Time and Space and name and form and world, high beyond his own personal and impersonal levels and yet from whom all this proceeds, One whom all manifests in manifold Nature and her multitude of figures. It is... partiality, preference or attachment to any person or thing or happening or feature all this infinite manifestation in Time and the universe. This pure and equal Self does not act, but supports impartially all the action of things. And yet it is the Supreme, but as the cosmic Spirit and the Time Spirit, who wills and conducts and determines the action of the world through his multitudinous power-to-be, that ...

... 5) (and last because of want of space) Because I am a doctor, I can't see a joke when it is there. N's temperature is varying from 98˚6-99˚2. Why the deuce doesn't it become normal? What about his blessed lungs? He wants to come to evening meditation, will he? Depends on you. The nights are not yet quite warm and he would be there for a long time. February 11, 1935 But... Middle Narayan oil—there have been several—have appeared only as meaningless foam and froth on the excited crest of the dispute. I fear you have not grasped the internalities and modalities and causalities of my high and subtle reasoning. It is not surprising as you are down down in the troughs of the rigidly logically illogical human reason while I am floating on the heights amid the infinite plasticities... story of blood-vomiting several times that made Mother suspect ulcer and insist on the hospital. February 4, 1935 N is keeping better. Temperature actually came down to 99.4˚, the first time in his illness. He is already aspiring to do his gate duty on Darshan day. What more evidence? Yesterday during meditation he felt a lot of Force on his chest, he said. It is evidence of a subjective ...