Supermind sees the universe and its contents as itself in a single indivisible act of knowledge. The first operative principle of supermind is “a cosmic vision which is all-comprehensive, all-pervading, all-inhabiting.” In this consciousness “the knower, knowledge and the known are not different entities, but fundamentally one.” That which is an apparent discord to the mind because it considers each thing separately in itself, is an element of the general ever-present and ever-developing harmony to the Supermind because it views all things in a multiple unity. For the inner and inherent law of the one and whole, which is necessarily a harmony, governs the outer and processive laws of the parts or forms which appear to be in collision and to the supramental vision this greater and profounder truth of harmony is always present. In reality, there is a spontaneous working out of things from within and the external shock and struggle are only the superficial aspect of this elaboration. Different potentialities are embodied, placed, related in this field of Time and Space, each with its powers and possibilities fronting other powers and possibilities, and as a result the successions of Time become in their appearance to the mind a working out of things by shock and struggle and not a spontaneous succession. This development and progress of the world according to an original truth of its own being implies a succession 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. This play of all in each and each in all is concealed at first from us by the mental play or the illusion of Maya which persuades each that he is in all but not all in him and that he is in all as a separated being not as a being always inseparably one with the rest of existence. It is by Maya that static truth of essential being becomes ordered truth of active being-or, to put it in more metaphysical language, out of the supreme being in which all is all without barrier of separative consciousness emerges the phenomenal being in which all is in each and each is in all for the play of existence with existence, consciousness with consciousness, force with force, delight with delight. This power was known to the Vedic seers by the name of Maya. And what presides over the cosmic manifestation is “a capacity in self-awareness of infinite existence to perceive a certain Truth in itself and direct its force of creation along the line of that Truth.” Yet “nfinite consciousness in its infinite action can produce only infinite results to settle upon a fixed Truth or order of truths and build a world in conformity with that which is fixed, demands a selective faculty of knowledge commissioned to shape finite appearance out of the infinite Reality.” What is ultimately real, according to Sri Aurobindo, is a self-existent consciousness the nature of which is infinite, unconditioned delight.
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