... in this, as Mr. Ranade reminds us, from Anaximander who like our Mayavadins denied true reality to the Many and from Empedocles who thought the All to be alternately one and many, believed unity and multiplicity to be both of them real and coexistent. Existence is then eternally one and eternally many,—even as Ramanuja and Madhwa have concluded, though in a very different spirit and from a quite different ...
... Brahman and a universe of Maya which is not Brahman and yet somehow exists. In this view which is that of the Gita and some other Vedantic schools the Para Shakti and the Maya are also Brahman. Unity and Multiplicity are aspects of the Brahman, just as are Personality and Impersonality, Nirguna and Saguna. * "This central being has two forms - above, it is Jivatman...below, it is the psychic ...
... universal Will-force, so ignorance is a particular action of the universal Knowledge.—Consciousness, which is Power, takes three poises; its plenitude of the divine knowledge invariable in unity and multiplicity and beyond; its dwelling upon apparent oppositions, the extreme being the superficial appearance of complete nescience in the Inconscient; and a mediary term or compromise between the two which ...
... in Janaloka is one in delight of being with all manifestation and through that bliss one also in conscious energy and in essence of being. All these are states of consciousness in which unity and multiplicity have not yet been separated from each other. All is in all, each in all and all in each, inherently, by the very nature of conscious being and without effort of conception or travail of perception ...
... there is the splendid many-sided unity of the genuine one, a grand harmony of a thousand truths. Its fundamental tenet is the old Rig-Vedic formula: "The One whom the sages call by many names." Unity and multiplicity, simplicity and complexity, the supra-cosmic and the cosmic, the universal and the individual - all these are blended together in Hinduism and express themselves in the large number of aspects ...
... First, this Light is not absolutely sovereign, and ignorance itself has resulted inevitably by the lessening or, rather, by a crucial poise-change of Supermind's Light which harmonises or fuses unity and multiplicity. In the grades of Spiritual Mind, multiplicity is in the forefront and unity, although not concealed as in the lower planes, is only in the background. These grades, therefore, are impotent ...
... world-manifestation. 23 The One and the Many are both of them eternal aspects of the Absolute Parabrahman which is Itself neither one nor many in an exclusive sense. It is beyond unity and multiplicity in its essential truth as it is beyond all other oppositions, but neither unity nor Page 193 multiplicity, neither the One nor the Many are illusions, they are both of them truths ...
... controversy into even the quiet atmosphere of an Ashram of Yoga. His intellect was indeed keyed to a different note of controversy than was mine: I was argumentative about problems like unity and multiplicity, free-will and determinism, the personal God and the impersonal Absolute, and wanted the supra-sensible to be logically of a piece, amenable to analytic systematisation, while he had the sceptic's ...
... Absolute is beyond personality and beyond impersonality, and yet it is both the Impersonal and the supreme Person and all persons. It is seen that the Absolute is beyond the distinction of unity and multiplicity, and yet it is the One and the Innumerable Many in all the universes. It is further seen that it is beyond all limitation by quality and yet it is not limited by a quality-less void but it ...
... and movement, we must remember, are only our psychological representations of the Absolute, even as are oneness and multitude. The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. But it takes its eternal poise in the one and the stable and whirls round itself infinitely, inconceivably, securely in the moving and multitudinous. World-existence is the ecstatic dance ...
... shadow of the Real cast down on it from planes of existence beyond its reach." 3 It is because of this inherent propensity to divide and overstress that the Mind cannot hold at once Unity and Multiplicity, consciousness and action, being and becoming; it cannot possess simultaneously the active and the passive Brahman. And because of Mind's inability to possess the Infinite, if instead of ...
... perception and inseparable from it is a synthetic view in which things that are usually supposed to be contraries find their harmony and union, viz; God and the World, Permanence and Flux, Unity and Multiplicity, the Universal and the Individual. The equal reality of the two poles of an integral truth is characteristic of many of the modern philosophical systems. In this respect Whitehead echoes a ...
... perception and inseparable from it is a synthetic view in which things that are usually supposed to be contraries find their harmony and union, viz., God and the World, Permanence and Flux, Unity and Multiplicity, the Universal and the Individual. The equal reality of the two poles of an integral truth is characteristic of many of the modern philosophical systems. In this respect Whitehead echoes a ...
... of descending hierarchies, the Powers and Principles that sway the varying rhythms and patterns of manifestation and creation. Majestic and august She stands, above Time and Space, above all unity and multiplicity, above the Gods and their orchestral movements, releasing out of the unfathomable abyss of the ultimate Being the infinite possibilities of His self-formulation and self-expression. She is ...
... Puranic trinity and the forms of its female energies have on the contrary no meaning to the physical mind or imagination, but are philosophic and psychic conceptions and embodiments of the unity and multiplicity of the all-manifesting Godhead. The Puranic cults have been characterised as a degradation of the Vedic religion, but they might conceivably be described, not in the essence, for that remains ...
... and Space and beyond the conceptual opposites of finite and infinite. But in cosmos It uses Its liberty of self-formation, Its Maya, to make a scheme of Itself in the complementary terms of unity and multiplicity, and this multiple unity It establishes in the three conditions of the subconscient, the conscient and the superconscient. For actually we see that the Many objectivised in form in our material ...
... supreme Infinite. The Absolute is beyond personality and beyond impersonality, and yet it is both the Impersonal and the supreme Person and all persons. The Absolute is beyond the distinction of unity and multiplicity, and yet it is the One and the innumerable Many in all the universes. It is beyond all limitation by quality and yet it is not limited by a qualitiless void but is too all infinite qualities ...
... not inherent and insuperable in the multiplicity of souls, are not the very nature of the multiplicity of Brahman. Brahman, as he exceeds the passivity and the activity, so too exceeds the unity and multiplicity. He is one in himself, but not with a self-limiting unity exclusive of the power of multiplicity, such as is the separated unity of the body and the mind; he is not the mathematical integer ...
... Unity,—Something ineffable and mentally inconceivable not because of its unity and indivisibility, but because of its freedom from even these formulations of our mind,—Something beyond both unity and multiplicity? That would be the utter Absolute and Real which yet justifies to us both our knowledge of God and our knowledge of the world. But these terms are large and difficult to grasp; let us come ...
... accordance with their self-existent Page 276 Truth and in harmony with the significances of its manifestation. The creation depends on and moves between the biune principle of unity and multiplicity; it is a manifoldness of idea and force and form which is the expression of an original unity, and it is an eternal oneness which is the foundation and reality of the multiple worlds and makes ...
... not material; it is the energy of active consciousness which, by its motion and multiplication in different principles (different in appearance, the same in essence), creates oppositions of unity and multiplicity, divisions of Time and Space, relations and groupings of circumstance and Causality. All these things are real in consciousness, but only symbolic of the Being, somewhat as the imaginations ...
... Brahman and a universe of Maya which is not Brahman and yet somehow exists. In this view which is that of the Gita and some other Vedantic schools the Para Shakti and the Many are also Brahman. Unity and Multiplicity are aspects of Page 129 the Brahman, just as are Personality and Impersonality, Nirguna and Saguna. 18 March 1936 " ... if the mental is strongly developed, then the mental ...
... is the ordering out, by this Conscious Force, of the truths implicit in the Supreme, the organization of these truths in a perfect interrelation and interaction by a faculty of harmonizing unity and multiplicity in a universal self-deployment. This faculty is Vijnana, the maker of a detailed design, at once a mass of particulars and a gestalt, on a divine scale. Vijnana is the Aurobindonian Supermind ...
... supreme Infinite. The Absolute is beyond personality and beyond impersonality, and yet it is both the Impersonal and the supreme Person and all persons. The Absolute is beyond the distinction of unity and multiplicity, and yet it is the One and the innumerable Many in all the universes. It is beyond all limitation by quality and yet it is not limited by a qualityless void but is too all infinite qualities ...
... the pursuit of knowledge of unity and oneness, and it insists on the pursuit of that knowledge through the development of the faculties of intuition and concrete realisation. The knowledge of unity and multiplicity, and the knowledge as grounded in unity is the ideal that Indian pedagogy puts forward in its total scheme of knowledge. Jnana: Illumination through Intuition of the Self There is ...
... the Gita makes abundantly clear and conclusive, or in the Purusha of the Veda and the Upanishads, the eternal oneness of Matter and Spirit, annam Brahma, of the Self and the universe, of unity and multiplicity, vidyā and avidyā. That would have been, indeed, the true, the perfect Adwaita without the bewildering, inexplicable shadow of Maya hanging about it. But that was not to be. That was not ...
... And yet the individual persists as one of the multiple centers of the transcendent Consciousness, participating at once in the transcendent freedom and the universal movement, in unity and. Page 202 multiplicity, and finding its own fulfillment in the fulfillment of all. Light, Force, Bliss and Beauty reveal their inexhaustible riches in a mounting harmony of varied relations, and descend ...
... why Sri Aurobindo considered the divinisation of the body not only possible but in the long stretch of earthly evolution inevitable. The Supermind is the complete dynamic Divine, a creative Unity-in-Multiplicity from whom our universe has derived and by whom secretly it is being worked out with its starting-point in apparently the opposite end of perfection — an immense Inconscience, the Rigveda's original... by what Sri Aurobindo names the psychic being, the true soul which is the immortal spark in us of the Eternal, a delegate of the individual aspect which subsists in the Supermind's flawless unity-in-multiplicity. That is why immortality, which is the nature of the Divine and represented inwardly here by the developing and reincarnating soul, is the goal of all evolutionary terms, including the physical ...
... quality which was not there, so to say, which is the fruition or summation of its long journey of material evolution. It is the delight of union, or fusion of two in place of mere unity – the delight of unity in multiplicity. Page 323 ...
... quality which was not there, so to say, which is the fruition or summation of its long journey of material evolution. It is the delight of union, or fusion of two in place of mere unity—the delight of unity in multiplicity. Page 25 ...
... Soul, the psychic being, that real and lasting harmony can be established. Sri Aurobindo says: "Harmony is the natural rule of the Spirit, it is the inherent law and spontaneous consequence of unity in multiplicity" The Life Divine (p. 922). Music is one of the arts that can help us in realising this harmony, as it is capable of bringing down the vibrations of the deeper Soul, or the Higher Self ...
... conditions and yet all. I do not live in this limited body all the time, but I feel a living presence in each and every atom, which links the whole universe with one inconceivable unity in universal multiplicity... There does not exist any "I", but the hierarchy of the universal planes full of the one reality, the sole support—the Divine Presence. There are rainbow colours on all planes ...
... puts "a yonder to all ends" while holding for each term its legitimate climax and consummation. The universal Divine is suggested generally by the sense of wideness and equality, the sense of unity-in-multiplicity, the sense of a greatly diversified yet persistent order. The general sign of the individual Divine is the sense of plastic form, the sense of adventurous variation without losing balance, the ...
... Divine's pure essence and absolute unity. The differentiation or variability there in the Immutable is a play immanent in the integral self-nature of the Supreme. The one and the many form on that level a single entity, an undivided whole: the unity running in and through and holding the multiplicity and the multiplicity being the playfulness of the unity. Multiplicity however implies Page 1 ... arrived at a mode which brought about a shift and an impulsion meaning a rift and a clear separation: the momentum of the free movement carried the individual formation beyond the range of its sense of unity and identity with all and the One. More and more it isolated itself, limiting itself to its own orbit and to its own fund of energy. This isolation, it must be noted, occurs at the origin without any ...
... Divine's pure essence and absolute unity. The differentiation or variability there in the Immutable is a play immanent in the integral self-nature of the Supreme. The one and the many form on that level a single entity, an undivided whole: the unity running in and through and holding the multiplicity and the multiplicity being the playfulness of the unity. Multiplicity, however, implies freedom of movement... at a mode which brought about I a shift and an impulsion meaning a rift and a clear separation: I the momentum of the free movement carried the individual formation beyond the range of its sense of unity and identity with all and the One. More and more it isolated itself, limiting itself to its own orbit and to its own fund of energy. This isolation, it must be noted, occurs at the origin without any ...
... They speak of 33 crores of Gods. The earth is the playfield of all godlings. In this way we come very far from the Supreme Brahman, Page 19 the Mayavadin's inane Unity. The Puranic multiplicity is perhaps a corrective of the Vedantin's empty Absolute. The Vedantin's negation of the world for the realisation of the Brahman, the Supreme Consciousness, is an effective way ...
... number of Gods and Goddesses. They speak of 33 crores of Gods. The earth is the playfield of all godlings. In this way we come very far from the Supreme Brahman, the Mayavadin's inane Unity. The Puranic multiplicity is perhaps a corrective of the Vedantin's empty Absolute. The Vedantin's negation of the world for the realisation of the Brahman, the Supreme Consciousness, is an effective way so far ...
... the world's multiplicity. The soul in Tapas is pure force of divine will & knowledge and possesses universe omnisciently and omnipotently as its extended self. Page 354 The soul in Ananda is pure delight and multiplies itself in universal self-creation and unmixed joy of being. The soul in Mahas is pure idea, perceives itself in order and arrangement of comprehensive unity in multiplicity... transcends world and is not bound by any law of Nature. He uses laws, laws do not use Him. God transcends world and is not bound to any particular state of consciousness in the world. He is not unity-consciousness nor multiple consciousness, not Personality nor Impersonality, not stillness, nor motion, but simultaneously includes all these self-expressions of His absolute being. Page 353 ... multiplicity, all things in their unity & each thing in its right place, time and circumstance. It is not subject to the tyranny of impressions, but contains & comprehends the objects it knows. The soul in Manas is pure mentality & receives the pure impression of separate objects & from their sum receives the impression of the whole. It is Manas that measures, limits & divides. The soul in Prana is ...
... universe it has its reality in the Transcendence whose complementary manifested formulations are the universe and the individual. In a general sense we may say that the original Consciousness is a unity-in-multiplicity and that for the purposes of the world-play the same Consciousness is divided into an infinite number of focal points. There is nothing impossible here: in fact it is the only possibility. It... Mukta, a liberated soul. He was also a Yogi in a new sense by virtue of wide-awake possession of what is called the Supermind. The Supermind is the creative Truth-Consciousness, the divine harmony of unity in diversity in which the perfect truth of all manifestation resides, both singly and innumerably, as Lord of the universe as well as the universe's m-dwelling Godhead. By the Supermind's integral ...
... cal points you have raised. First, "what is the value of diversity?" I don't think any philosophy of unity-in-multiplicity ever posits "repetitions of one original pattern". Naturally, there has to be an essential oneness within the many if unity in the true sense is to be present. But multiplicity in the true sense would be otiose if there was not to be diversity. On a diabolical plane I can imagine... is the Being and Consciousness and Bliss which is what you have termed "some primary and ultimate Unity" but which actually can be no other than a state where the Page 309 democratic Divine is not annulled or contradicted but subsists in a hidden form. It is not that the multiplicity and diversity are obliterated by absorption but that the whole democratic Divine is indrawn and se... dimension. But, when in the Consequent Unity "the oneness and the manyness of the whole imply one another and depend on one another for their being and their meaning", aren't they creatively unfolding a truth already present in another manner in the Primordial Unity? Without the Primordial Unity having the potentiality or secret pre-existence of the Consequent Unity, the latter would not at all become ...
... we must arrive before we can enter into the gnosis,—for in that all exists and from that all originates on the gnostic plane,—is, first of all, a truth of unity, of oneness, but of unity originating diversity, unity in multiplicity and still unity Page 489 always, an indefeasible oneness. State of gnosis, the condition of vijñānamaya being, is impossible without an ample and close sel... there they become unified and the Divine is no longer veiled in Maya. All is his action. The Jiva no longer says "I think, I act, I desire, I feel"; he does not even say like the sadhaka striving after unity but before he has reached it, "As appointed by Thee seated in my heart, I act." For the heart, the centre of the mental consciousness is no longer the centre of origination but only a blissful channel ...
... cosmos, and therefore Nature and the individual soul must always be conceived as necessarily coexisting with the Divine, and the Divine as not a vast void but as an inexplicable yet genuine unity-in-multiplicity; for otherwise there would be no ground of truth in the Ultimate to support and correspond to Its phenomenal manifestation. It is this ground of truth or perfection that It brings out... them both. But he unmistakably said that the presence of Nature and the individuality of the soul were a bar to the highest realisation since the One alone truly existed and could not suffer any multiplicity in Its all-consuming Ananda. Confronted with the question how, if the One alone existed, the many had ever come to be, he sought refuge in Shankara's indescribable Maya. Not that he entirely rejected... the matter -namely, that if this is true the union of Jnana could never be exclusively non-dual, since Bhakti even in its intensest fusion of "I" and "Thou" implies, as all love must, a difference-in-unity. Thus his very tribute to Bhakti was the result of the pro-Jnana temper of his intellect and based on a philosophical misunderstanding of the ultimate essence of love. This misunderstanding helped ...
... assumed or conceived or presented, the power that creates multiplicity. Multiplicity, according to Sri Aurobindo, is inherent in the ultimate oneness of the ultimate reality; it is not created by the Ignorance. (i)Firstly, Ignorance is, as emphasized by Sri Aurobindo, the act of ignoring the unity behind the multiplicity, — the multiplicity that becomes manifest as a result of an operation of the... that Ignorance can be corrected by Knowledge in which multiplicity is realized to be grounded in the ultimate unity and oneness, but in the state of Knowledge what evaporates necessarily is not multiplicity but the error of thinking and believing that multiplicity exists as the only existence without any grounding in the ultimate oneness and unity. In the integral knowledge, the attainment of which is... and ascending movement of Ignorance, the ignorant perception of multiplicity of the world vanishes, Page 30 but at the same time the multiplicity of the world is seen with freshness of luminosity where not only the unity and oneness are seen but there is a further perception of the flooding of the knowledge of multiplicity of the world in its fullness and its right significance. That knowledge ...
... law prevails all along the path, through all its steps and returns, in all the million transactions of the wayside. There is everywhere the law of exchange and interchange, amoibē . The unity and the multiplicity have at every moment this active relation to each other. The One is constantly exchanging itself for the many; that gold has been given, you have instead these commodities, but in fact they... there is no destruction. Energy distributes itself, but never really dissipates itself; change and unalterable conservation of energy in the change are the law, not destruction. If this world of multiplicity is destroyed in the end by Fire, yet there is no end and it is not destroyed, but only exchanged for the Fire. Moreover, there is exchange between all these becomings which are only so many active ...
... equal unity of the full realisation of Sachchidananda. Here the last difficulty of mind meets him, its inability to hold at once the unity and the multiplicity. It is not altogether difficult to arrive at and dwell in a pure infinite or even, at the same time, a perfect global experience of the Existence which is Consciousness which is Delight. The mind may even extend its experience of this Unity to... by a partial and parcelled exercise of will corresponding to the partial and parcelled method of its knowledge. The divine founds itself upon unity and is master of the transcendences and totalities of things; the human founds itself on separated multiplicity and is the subject even when the master of their division and fragmentations and their difficult solderings and unifyings. Between the two there... to the multiplicity so as to perceive it immanent in the universe and in each object, force, movement in the universe or at the same time to be aware of this Existence-Consciousness-Bliss containing the universe and enveloping all its objects and originating all its movements. It is difficult indeed for it to unite and harmonise rightly all these experiences; but still it can possess Sachchidananda at ...
... "es-eno-plastic". It is the incorrect form, however, that has passed into currency. Page 138 But, if Imagination were itself exclusive instead of being an integrated manifold, a unity-in-multiplicity, it could hardly be "esemplastic", hardly exercise the function "by which one image or feeling is made to modify many others, and by a sort. of fusion to force many into one". The harmony it ...
... great, for it is found that then alone the largest body of phenomenal fact is comprehended and the simplest and fewest basic axioms compatible with this body are creatable, so that the utmost unity-in-multiplicity is achieved. The ideal is to go on increasing the length between the two ends of the theory and further and further "mysticise" those axioms. The function of the Einsteinian intuition is to... of Motion went a long way towards it - holding together the smallest particles and the hugest heavenly bodies within the terms of the same mathematical equations. And this sense and discernment of unity and uniformity in the physical universe - this reduction of that universe to a harmonious seizability by the thinking mind which looks Page 120 always for simple fundamental all-integrating ...
... the One. This is a Consciousness constituting, pervading and comprehending everything. The second strand is a Consciousness that apprehends no less than comprehends. In its own vast unity of multiplicity it creates distinguishable centres and from these centres views everything else, yet everything is known by each centre to be essentially itself: the multiple stands out as an infinite ... vast Identity equably constitutes and pervades and comprehends everything and no multiplicity stands out at all, is likely to be the main Godhead that delivers. On the other hand, since mind is the least obscure member of the lower trinity and has a quicker and larger turn towards essentiality, infinity, unity, totality than its associates, the second and first strands of the Supermind... nature going for a while, nothing appears to have the strength to stand against the invasion of the finite and the divided by the Infinite and the divinely One. The vast inalienable unity-in-multiplicity of the Truth-Consciousness seems to send forth a fiat which is automatically self-fulfilling. And, not seldom, on the individual who is gathered into the divine harmony this fiat works ...
... ineffugable, of a multiplicity which appears, a unity concealed which yet the mind insists on as the sole truth of the multiplicity. Nor is the unity which our mind thus asks us to perceive, a sum of factors; that oneness exists, but behind it there is an essential unity out of which both the sum & its factors emerge. Yet, divorce that essential unity from all notion of multiplicity expressed or latent... latent, & it ceases to be unity; it becomes something else of which unity & multiplicity are mutually related aspects. But when we have arrived at this coexistent & coincident unity & multiplicity, before we can proceed to the something else which is neither one nor many, logic has already taken alarm. It cannot be, it says, that two opposites really coexist & coincide as the nature of Being. If we ask... no essential reality. But what have we said, after all? Merely this, that we do not find the Many existing except in some relation to a unity behind, established in that Unity and, as far as we can see, existent by Page 577 that unity, as indeed the unity itself exists in a certain relation to the eternally existent Many either in their manifestation or in their substratum of Maya. How much ...
... stuff and is "transcendent in the sense that though the created is dependent upon the Creator, the Creator is not dependent upon the created. God thus is held to be the highest type of Unity, viz., a Unity in Multiplicity". 44 Teilhard's system can legitimately be summed up as panentheism with regard to the core we have perceived of its spiritual insight. However, panentheism a la Krause... have in all these quotations? From the beginning of the world, the divine Unity, that is Christ, immersed itself in the utter Multiple that is, according to Teilhard, the "creatable nothingness" from which the universe of space and time has been gradually and laboriously brought forth by the working of that divine Unity. This Unity is the "form" animating and shaping and synthesising that universe, the... announcing is a genuine pantheism sub specie Christi. And such a thesis emerges if we rightly gauge several of his pronouncements: "The concentration of the Multiple in the supreme organic unity of Omega represents a most arduous task. Every element, according to its degree, shares in this laborious synthesis, but the effort called for from the upper term of unification has necessarily to be ...
... and Avidya, the consciousness of Unity and the consciousness of Multiplicity. They are the two aspects of the Maya, the formative self-conception of the Eternal. Unity is the eternal and fundamental fact, without which all multiplicity would be unreal and an impossible illusion. The consciousness of Unity is therefore called Vidya, the Knowledge. Multiplicity is the play or varied self-expansion... represents the point at which the multiplicity in the universe becomes consciously capable of this turning and fulfilment. His own natural fulfilment comes by following the complete path of Avidya surrendering itself to Vidya, the Multiplicity to the Unity, the Ego to the One in all and beyond all, and of Vidya accepting Avidya into itself, the Unity fulfilling the Multiplicity, the One manifesting Himself... consciousness, inhabits many formations of energy in the universal Movement. Multiplicity is implicit or explicit in unity. Without it the Unity would be either a void of non-existence or a powerless, sterile limitation to the state of indiscriminate self-absorption or of blank repose. But the consciousness of multiplicity separated from the true knowledge in the many of their own essential oneness ...
... essential unity of all existence, and of the divine origin of this fettering and deluding Nature. The human soul has to transcend its individuality and realise the oneness of all existence; for, an indivisible oneness is the ultimate and fundamental truth of existence. And beyond this unity, it has to widen into That which is at once one and multiple and yet transcendent of both its unity and its... its multiplicity, and in which we perceive the transcendental divine aspect and original term of what we here know as prakrti. The knowledge Page 376 of that highest Ground of all existence and the omni- present Reality of our being is, therefore, the completest knowledge to which we have to aspire and attain. Beyond the knowledge of the soul there is the knowledge of the universal... meshes of Nature, and cured of all self-identification with her passing modes, may, if it will, enter into the infinite unity and immutability of the Brahman. This is a realisation which is higher and wider than the final goal of the Sânkhya and Jainism. One realises in it the unity of the universal Self, and may even rise from it into an experience of the utter Transcendence—calm, still and ineffably ...
... to be one always,—a unity governs even its utmost multiplicity; but the multiplicity is also on the face of things undeniable. We have found unity pursuing us everywhere: even, when we go below the surface, we find that there is no binding dualism; the contradictories and oppositions which the intellect creates exist only as aspects of the original Truth; oneness and multiplicity are poles of the same... power has three ways of operating. First, we find that there is a consciousness behind all, embracing all, within all, which is eternally, universally, absolutely aware of itself whether in unity or multiplicity or in both simultaneously or beyond both in its sheer absolute. This is the plenitude of the supreme divine self-knowledge; it is also the plenitude of the divine all-knowledge. Next, at the... The Knowledge is that which tends towards unification and, attaining to the supramental faculty, seizes the oneness, the essence, the self-law of existence and views and deals with the multiplicity of things out of that light and plenitude, in some sort as does the Divine Himself from the highest height whence He embraces the world. It must be noted however that the Ignorance in this conception of it ...
... realising the Self as at once one and many; for we have to realise each thing and being as That; we have to realise the unity of all as That, both in the unity of sum and in the oneness of essence; and we have to realise That as the Transcendent who is beyond all this unity and this multiplicity which we see everywhere as the two opposite, yet companion poles of all existence. For every individual being is... individual Self converts itself into a centre of consciousness through which the divine Will, one with the divine Love and Light, pours itself out in the multiplicity of the universe. We arrive in the same way at our unity with all our fellow-beings through the identity of this self with the Supreme and with the self in all others. At the same time in the action of Nature we preserve by it as soul-form... habits of our mentality so that it shall live entirely in this knowledge reconciling all differences in the One, we do not live in the real Truth, because we do not live in the real Unity. The accomplished sense of Unity is not that in which all are regarded as parts of one whole, waves of one sea, but that in which each as well as the All is regarded wholly as the Divine, wholly as our Self in a supreme ...
... —just as the supreme state of human love likewise is described as the unity of one soul in two bodies. The ego-sense is not indispensable to the world-play in which it is so active and so falsifies the truth of things; the truth is always the One at work on itself, at play with itself, infinite in unity, infinite in multiplicity. When the individualised consciousness rises to and lives in that truth... unification there is the sole existence of the Beloved but no extinction or absorption of the lover. It is the highest unity which is the express direction of the path of knowledge, the call to absolute oneness is its impulse, the experience of it its magnet, but it is this very highest unity which takes as its field of manifestation in him the largest possible cosmic wideness. Obeying the necessity to withdraw ...
... the problems of your life and all the activities of your being, all the elements of your consciousness, then they begin to be organised in such a way that your being becomes one unity―a single multiplicity, a multiple unity―complex, but organised and centralised around a fixed point, so well that the central will or central consciousness or central truth has the power to govern all the parts, for ...
... existence, from subjection to the sons of Danu or Diti. The idea is evidently identical with that of the Isha Upanishad which declares the possession of the Knowledge and the Ignorance, the unity and the multiplicity in the one Brahman as the condition for the attainment of Immortality. We then come to the seven divine seers. "The seers unconquered declared the Seer (the Deva, Agni) holding him within... seer-will, is the principal godhead who enables us to effect the sacrifice; he leads it on the path of the Page 202 Truth, he is the warrior of the battle, the doer of the work, and his unity and universality in us comprehending in itself all the other godheads is the basis of the Immortality. The plane of the Truth to which we arrive is his own home and the own home of the other gods, and ...
... multiplicity, of unity in diversity, of a various manifestation of oneness. In a pure and blank unity there could be indeed no place for harmony, for there is nothing to harmonise; in a complete or a governing diversity there must be either discord or a fitting together of differences, a constructed harmony. But in a gnostic unity in multiplicity the harmony would be there as a spontaneous expression of... nature of self-knowledge, inner mutual knowledge, inner realisation of unity, concord of our inner forces of being and inner forces of life. In our social building we labour to establish some approach to unity, mutuality, harmony, because without these things there can be no perfect social living; but what we build is a constructed unity, an association of interests and egos enforced by law and custom and... Reason and Science can only help by standardising, by fixing everything into an artificially arranged and mechanised unity of material life. A greater whole-being, whole-knowledge, whole-power is needed to weld all into a greater unity of whole-life. Page 1091 A life of unity, mutuality and harmony born of a deeper and wider truth of our being is the only truth of life that can successfully ...
... the problems of your life and all the activities of your being, all the elements of your consciousness, then they begin to be organised in such a way that your being becomes one unity — a single multiplicity, a multiple unity — complex, but organised and centralised around a fixed point, so well that the central will or central consciousness or central truth has the power to govern all the parts, for ...
... sagehood; he was, again, dynamic and heroic, since he battled from early boyhood and throughout his life for the upholding of justice and unity of people; and he was full of divine love, which has been sung as an immortal theme of harmonious unity, duality and multiplicity; and he readily agreed to serve with consummate skill as the charioteer of his friend and disciple, Arjuna. III ... intense sympathy, Page 132 compassion, spiritual love and harmony; secondly, of concentration and contemplation of internal communion with the subjective and the objective forces of unity and diversity, and thirdly, of internal union with the highest possible source or sources of love, joy and beauty. Sainthood consists of effortless inspiration to be engaged in works of friendliness... There are also those who feel that spiritual education will foster communalism; but this is only a superstition. In reality, communalism can rightly be combated only if we can foster universality and unity, — which, in the ultimate Page 137 analysis can be accomplished through spiritual education. The greatest antidote to communalism, we might affirm, is spiritual education. •But ...
... and the Law of Truth; from that the Night, from the Night the flowing ocean of being. Rig Veda. (X. 190. 1.) Since Brahman is in the essentiality of its universal being a unity and a multiplicity aware of each other and in each other and since in its reality it is something beyond the One and the Many, containing both, aware of both, Ignorance can only come about as a subordinate ... interplaying finite phenomena; rather that is its natural self-expression. The One is not limited by its capacity for multiplicity in which it enjoys variously its own being; rather that is part of the true description of an infinite as opposed to a rigid, finite and conceptual unity. Page 616 So too the Ignorance, considered as a power of manifoldly self-absorbed and self-limiting concentration... coverture. That action is the absorbed looking downward of Mind on the diversity which is its characteristic movement and away from the supreme unity which that diversity expresses, until it forgets altogether to remember and support itself by the unity. Even then the unity supports it and makes its activities possible, but the absorbed Energy is unaware of its own origin and greater, real self. Since Mind ...
... Ignorance, according to the Upanishads, is the apprehension of multiplicity without the awareness of the underlying light of unity. The apprehension of the multiplicity is analogous to the prisoners perception of shadows. Knowledge, according to the Upanishads, is the concentrated vision of wily and a comprehending consciousness of unity-multiplicity. The Upanishads also declare that we are in a state of bondage... myths of Greek polytheism were crude and misleading. He does seem to have believed (like most Greeks) in a supreme god, but he would not have regarded that belief as precluding the existence of a multiplicity of spiritual powers of whom many could rank as (subordinate) gods. This is the sort of theology we meet in the Timaeus and Laws. 8. Techne. 9. Arete. Page 129 ... together the benefits which each individually can confer on the community; and its purpose in fostering this attitude is not to leave everyone to please himself, but to make each man a link in the unity of the whole." "You are right; I had forgotten," he said. "You see, then, Glaucon," I went on, "we shan't be unfair to our philosophers, but shall be quite fair in what we say when we compel ...
... of sagehood; he was dynamic and heroic, since he battled from early boyhood and throughout his life for the upholding of justice and unity of people; and he was full of divine love, which has been sung as an immortal theme of harmonious unity, duality and multiplicity; and he readily agreed to serve with consummate skill as the charioteer of his friend and disciple, Arjuna. III Underlying... being that is capable of intense sympathy, compassion, spiritual love and harmony, secondly, of concentration and contemplation of internal communion with the subjective and the objective forces of unity and diversity, and thirdly, of internal union with the highest possible source or sources of love, joy and beauty. Sainthood consists of effortless inspiration to be engaged in works of friendliness... There are also those who feel that spiritual education will foster communalism; but this is only a superstition. In reality, communalism can rightly be combated only if we can foster universality and unity, — which in the ultimate analysis can be accomplished through spiritual education. The greatest antidote to communalism, we might affirm, is spiritual education. There are, however, those who maintain ...
... Yes, Paternal Deity is, as another phrase has it, in His "secrecy... alone"; yet His unity is neither sterile nor self-blocked. He can be ever productive, and His oneness is essential, not numerical, not broken or abrogated by many-ness. Being infinite, He runs His unity through all multiplicity and holds all "numbers" realized eternally in Himself. And even what we may consider distinct ...
... and the warring "wrath" are already there, and if bright thunderous majestic forms are newly created there to meet warlike or other occasions, then with a possible disturbance of the blissful unity-in-multiplicity that is Christ and of the loving harmony-in-difference that is Jerusalem a beast of prey could come in bright-burning anger, fashioned by the poetic "fury" of the "immortal Imagination", the... Christ. So The Tyger's drama may legitimately be pitched in Heaven and interpreted as the going forth of the Divine Fire in a destructive symbol-form expressive of Christ, the heavenly unity-in-multiplicity, to quell Satan-Urizen and his partners in revolt. Our essentially Miltonic reading of the poem gets certainly a general support in Blake's other writings. Do these writings support also... tal Unity of Divine Supernature. He is this Unity in two ways. The first, of course, is when all the Eternals are seen as a single all-comprehending reality. The second is when in each of them this whole is, as it were, reflected, and every individual Eternal stands as a multiplication of the Divine Vision that is Christ: the same Jesus innumerably existing. This second aspect of the Unity, already ...
... the spiritual Ananda. The Being is one, but this oneness is infinite and contains in itself an infinite plurality or multiplicity of itself: the One is the All; it is not only an essential Existence, but an All-Existence. The infinite multiplicity of the One and the eternal unity of the Many are the two realities or aspects of one reality on which the manifestation is founded. By reason of this f... reality in which is put in front the unity of the Divine Existence, the power of the Divine Consciousness, the bliss of the Divine Delight of existence,—not concealed or disguised as here, for we can possess them in their full independent reality. A fourth principle of supramental truth-consciousness is associated with them; manifesting unity in infinite multiplicity, it is the characteristic power of... individual Self in the Many. But the multiplicity permits of a phenomenal division of consciousness, an effectual Ignorance in which the Many, the individuals, cease to become aware of the eternal self-existent Oneness and are oblivious of the oneness of the cosmic Self in which and by which they live, move and have their being. But, by force of the secret Unity, the soul in becoming is urged by its ...
... lavished by Diti and which aspires the protection of Adit This prayer may become clearer when we read the Ishopanishad which declares the possession of the Knowledge and Ignorance, the unity and the multiplicity in the one Brahman as the condition of the attainment of Immortality. The central concept of the Veda, it may be said, is that of the conquest of the Knowledge of the Truth that rises... relationship with God by pursuit of the Vedic integral process of yoga. In the light of the Vedic knowledge, therefore, one can say that God exists; the multiplicity of God and the peculiar nature of His complexity is a fact manifesting itself as the multiplicity of gods, human beings and creatures and the peculiar nature of each being and each creature. The Vedic Rishis, through the processes of yoga, discovered... the linguistic secret of the Rishis and re-emphasised one central idea of the Vedic religion, the idea of the One Being with the Devas expressing in numerous names and forms the many-sidedness of His unity."² Psychological Theory of the Vedic Interpretation The psychological theory of Sri Aurobindo has been explained and illustrated in two volumes, 'The Secret of the Veda’ and 'Hymns to ...
... but in Himself He is beyond conception. Neither Unity nor multiplicity can describe Him, for He is not limited by numbers. Unity is His parabhava, it is His supreme manifestation of being, but it is after all a manifestation, not the utter & unknowable reality. IV The object of these two verses which have amplified the idea of monistic Unity in the universe, so as to remove any essential opposition... existence consists with, stands in and is not really different from the original unity. Starting from the multitudinous world they resolve it back into a single transcendental existence, starting back from the transcendental they show us its extension within itself in phenomena. Both the multitudinousness & the Unity, the manifestation & the Manifested they establish in the unknowable Absolute of which... lofty but so misleading an answer. The problem resolves itself into a few primary & fundamental questions. Since we have here a great unconditioned unity and a great phenomenal multitudinous manifestation, what is the essential relation between this unity & this manifestation? Given the coexistence & identity of the reality & the phenomenon where is the key to their identity? what is the principle which ...
... self-evident indeed that the Absolute cannot be limited; it can be limited neither by formlessness nor by form, neither by unity nor by multiplicity, neither by immobile status nor by dynamic mobility. If it manifests form, form cannot limit it; if it manifests multiplicity, multiplicity cannot divide it; if it manifests motion and becoming, motion cannot perturb nor becoming change it: it cannot be limited... infinite multiplicity. This phenomenon is got rid of by declaring it to be a perpetual Illusion, Maya. But this brings in, in effect, a self-contradictory dual status of consciousness of the One to annul a self-contradictory dual status of being of the One. A phenomenal truth of multiplicity of the One is annulled by setting up a conceptual falsehood in the One creating an unreal multiplicity. The One... Reality as an eternal oneness, status, immutable essence of pure existence supporting an eternal dynamis, motion, infinite multiplicity and diversity of itself. The immutable status of oneness brings out of itself the dynamis, motion and multiplicity,—the dynamis, motion and multiplicity not abrogating but bringing into relief the eternal and infinite oneness. If the consciousness of Brahman can be dual ...
... synthetic path, where neither multiplicity nor oneness is exclusively pursued. In that path, a point is reached in the pursuit of the multiplicity, where one crosses beyond death; once one reaches this point, one begins the pursuit of unity and oneness; but one does not ignore multiplicity. In the realization of unity and oneness, multiplicity is seen as rooted in unity and oneness; as a consequence... sensed and willed is marked by plurality and multiplicity. The realm of multiplicity is thus the field of all that is known within the spectrum of human consciousness. It is true that some sense of unity and even of oneness does emerge in the higher or highest ranges of the powers of reasoning in human consciousness. But even if the certainty of unity and oneness is sometimes glimpsed or seized by... seen the supreme godhead of the embodied gods."55 The knowledge of multiplicity that is gained at higher and higher levels of avidya is a brilliant golden lid that covers the face of Truth — Truth which transcends the multiplicity, the Truth which reveals the Unity and Oneness. But when Oneness is manifested in multiplicity, one has the vision of the law of the multiple manifestation of the Truth ...
... Vijnana when analysed & realised reduces itself to the selective & disposing self-action of Chit-Tapas omnisciently aware of the eternally stable unity & eternally potential multiplicity of Brahman and omnipotently able to arrange the terms of that multiplicity from any & every standpoint of Brahman's self-consciousness. It is essential act of knowledge in an essential status of knowledge; its movement... matter, formulated in matter, resolved back into matter, what else can they be than modifications of the sole-existing material principle? The human mind seeks a unity always, and the one unity which seems reasonably established here, is this unity of matter. Therefore, in the fine & profound apologue of the Taittiriya Upanishad, we are told that when Bhrigu Varuni was bidden by his father Varuna to discover... the faculty of Vijnana which, while always resting in their eternal, indefeasible & indivisible oneness, yet casts them into triune figures of being & originates in world their mutual play & their multiplicity. It is vijnana that expresses & arranges the cosmic self-expression of being by looking at Brahman now predominantly in one aspect, now predominantly in another aspect even while it perceives all ...
... existence, God and pure multiplicity. Even so, God was all alone... For all eternity God saw the shadow of his unity in a diffused state of disarray beneath his feet; and this shadow was not another God." The suggestion is that the same existence has two aspects and that this existence is basically God, and what is non-basic is the shadow of the basic so that God's own substance of unity is in a shadowy... and is "transcendent in the sense that though the created is dependent upon the Creator, the Creator is not dependent upon the created. God thus is held to be the highest type of Unity, viz., a Unity in Multiplicity". I may remark that the words "created" and "Creator" used here are not in the Christian connotation but in the Vedantic-Gita connotation which is also the Aurobindonian: namely,... shadowy form the multiplicity at the opposite pole. A brand of monism or pantheism peeps out here, though Teilhard tries not to accord it any recognition. But once he 45 is bold enough to face the issue squarely and assert straightforwardly: "We without doubt present a very incomplete idea of the Godhead if we described it exclusively by personal attributes: some aspects of the supreme Being can ...
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