Riddle of this World-AUROBINDO part 6

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It is what is inherent in force of being that

manifests as becoming, but what the manifestation shall be,

its terms, its balance of energies, its arrangement

of principles depends on the consciousness which

acts in the creative force, on the power of

consciousness which Being delivers from itself for

manifestation. It is in the nature of Being to be able to grade

and vary its powers of consciousness and determine

according to the grade and variation its world or its

degree and scope of selfrevelation. The manifested

creation is limited by the power to which it belongs and

sees and lives according to it and can only see more,

live more powerfully, change its world by opening or

moving towards or making descend a greater power of

consciousness that was above it. This is what is happening in

the evolution of consciousness in our world, a world

of inanimate matter producing under the stress of

this necessity a power of life, a power of mind which

bring into it new forms of creation and still labouring

to produce, to make descend into it some supramental

power. It is further an operation of creative force

which moves between two poles of consciousness. On one

side there is a secret consciousness within and above

which contains in it all potentialities - there

eternally manifest, here awaiting delivery - of light,

peace, power and bliss. On the other side there is

another, outward on the surface and below, that starts

from the apparent opposite of unconsciousness,

inertia, blind stress, possibility of suffering and grows

by receiving into itself higher and higher powers

which make it always recreate its manifestation in

larger terms, each new creation of this kind bringing

out something of the inner potentiality, making it

more and more possible to bring down the Perfection

that waits above. As long as the outward personality

we call ourselves is centred in the lower powers of

consciousness, the riddle of its own existence, its purpose, its

necessity is to it an insoluble enigma; if something of the

truth is at all conveyed to this outward mental man, he

but imperfectly grasps it and perhaps misinterprets

and misuses and mislives it. His true staff of

walking is made more of a fire of faith than any

ascertained and indubitable light of knowledge. It is only by

rising toward a higher consciousness beyond the mental

line and therefore superconscient now to him that he

can emerge from his inability and his ignorance. His

full liberation and enlightenment will come when he

crosses the line into the light of a new superconscient

existence. That is the transcendence which was the object of

aspiration of the mystics and the spiritual seekers.