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M.G.Umar in his bbook, Sri Aurobindo, Thinker and Yogi of the Future observes, “What is consciousness, pure consciousness is an infinite self- aware existence- Sat- full of Bliss. This Supramental consciousness works at different levels and different modes. When it sees anything as an object of knowledge, it yet sees it as itself and in itself, and not as a thing other than or divided from it about which therefore it would at first be ignorant of the nature, constitution and workings and have to learn about them, as the mind is at first ignorant of its object and has to learn about it because the mind is separated from its object and regards and senses and meets it as something other than itself and external to its own being.” (Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, Part Four: The Yoga of Self-Perfection, Chapter 19, The Nature of the Supermind, pp. The Spirit is one everywhere and it knows all things as itself and in itself, so sees them always and therefore knows them intimately, completely, in their reality as well as their appearance, in their truth, their law, the entire spirit and sense and figure of their nature and their workings. Sri Aurobindo observes: “The fundamental nature of this supermind is that all its knowledge is originally a knowledge by identity and oneness and even when it makes numberless apparent divisions and discriminating modifications in itself, still all the knowledge that operates in its workings even in these divisions, is founded upon and sustained and lit and guided by this perfect knowledge by identity and oneness. Sri Aurobindo expostulates a gradual growth and development of consciousness until one reaches the Supramental consciousness. Man is part of evolution and he is not the last term of evolution.
Echoing the rishis of the Vedas and the Upanishads, Sri Aurobindo states that there is one Divine Reality that pervades and dominates all existence and is beyond all: Sarvam Khalidam Brahman. He uses the term Superman as someone who has exceeded the normal human mentality and embodied the Supramental Truth- Consciousness. Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy is a grand synthesis of the East and the West. He further states, “The spiritual experience and the general truths on which such an attempt could be based, were already present to us otherwise we should have had no right to make the endeavour at all but the complete intellectual statement of them and their results and issues had to be found.”(322) During the Arya’s seven years Sri Aurobindo wanted to bring out a ‘synthetic philosophy’ for ‘ the new age’ of a ‘humanity’. The Life Divine is Sri Aurobindo’s supramental manifesto.
Having attained in constant walking life, and not merely in a sealed Samadhi the reality which he terms Genesis he has but laid out in intellectual exposition what Gnostic consciousness is and what yogic possibilities it holds and what the results of its full descent into our earth existence will be. The Life Divine is nothing except his experience, his realisation. K.R.Srinivasa Iyengar in his biography of Sri Aurobindo calls it a treatise on metaphysics (415). It was revised by Sri Aurobindo and the first volume was published in book form in 1939 and the second in 1940. It provides his vision of the evolution of man. Prominence was given in The Arya to The Life Divine. Secondly, because I had to write down in the terms of the intellect all that I had observed and come to know in practising yoga daily, and philosophy was there automatically… (D.K.Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to me ,Jaico 1964. I was a poet and a politician, not a philosopher! How I managed to do it and why? First, Richard proposed to me to co- operate in a philosophical review and as my theory was that a yogi ought to be able to turn his hand to anything I could not I could not well refuse: and then he had to go to the war and left me in the lunch with sixty- four pages of philosophy all to write by my lonely self. I knew precious little about philosophy before I did the yoga and came to Pondicherry. And philosophy Let me tell you in confidence that I never ever was a philosopher- although I have written philosophy….
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