CHAPTER XXVIII The Divine Life O seeing Flame, thou carriest man of the crooked ways into the abiding truth and the knowledge. Rig Veda.1 I purify earth and heaven by the Truth. Rig Veda.2 His ecstasy, in one who holds it, sets into motion the two births, the human self-expression and the divine, and moves between them. Rig Veda.3 May the invincible rays of his intuition be there seeking immor- tality, pervading both the births; for by them he sets flowing in one movement human strengths and things divine. Rig Veda.4 Let all accept thy will when thou art born a living god from the dry tree, that they m

CHAPTER XIX Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge Seven steps has the ground of the Ignorance, seven steps has the ground of the Knowledge. Mahopanishad.¹ He found the vast Thought with seven heads that is born of the Truth; he created some fourth world and became universal.... The Sons of Heaven, the Heroes of the Omnipotent, thinking the straight thought, giving voice to the Truth, founded the plane of illumination and conceived the first abode of the Sacrifice.... The Master of Wisdom cast down the stone defences and called to the Herds of Light,... the Herds that stand in

CHAPTER XXI The Order of the Worlds Seven are these worlds in which move the life-forces that are hidden within the secret heart as their dwelling-place seven by seven. Mundaka Upanishad.¹ II. 1. 8. May the Peoples of the five Births accept my sacrifice, those who are born of the Light and worthy of worship; may Earth protect us from earthly evil and the Mid-Region from calamity from the gods. Follow the shining thread spun out across the mid-world, protect the luminous paths built by the thought; weave an in- violate work, become the human being, create the divine race.... Seers of truth are you, sharpen the shining

CHAPTER XX The Philosophy of Rebirth An end have these bodies of an embodied soul that is eternal;... it is not born nor dies nor is it that having been it will not be again. It is unborn, ancient, everlasting; it is not slain with the slaying of the body. As a man casts from him his worn-out garments and takes others that are new, so the embodied being casts off its bodies and joins itself to others that are new. Certain is the death of that which is born and certain is the birth of that which dies... Gita.¹ There is a birth and growth of the self. According to his actions the embodied being assumes forms suc

CHAPTER XXVI The Ascent towards Supermind Masters of the Truth-Light who make the Truth grow by the Truth. Rig Veda.1 Three powers of Speech that carry the Light in their front ... a triple house of peace, a triple way of the Light. Rig Veda.2 Four other worlds of beauty he creates as his form when he has grown by the Truths. Rig Veda.3 He is born a seer with the mind of discernment; an offspring of the Truth, a birth set within in the secrecy, half arisen into manifestation. Rig Veda.4 Possessed of a vast inspired wisdom, creators of the Light, con- scious all-knowers, growing in the Trut

CHAPTER XXII Rebirth and Other Worlds; Karma, the Soul and Immortality He passes in his departure from this world to the physical Self; he passes to the Self of life; he passes to the Self of mind; he passes to the Self of knowledge; he passes to the Self of bliss; he moves through these worlds at will. Taittiriya Upanishad.1 They say indeed that the conscious being is made of desire. But of whatsoever desire he comes to be, he comes to be of that will, and of whatever will he comes to be, he does that action, and whatever his action, to (the result of) that he reaches.... Adhered to by his Karma, 2 he g

No. 7 THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER VII THE EGO AND THE DUALITIES.     The soul seated on the same tree of Nature is absorbed and deluded and has sorrow because it is not the Lord, but when it sees and is in union with that other self and greatness of it which is the Lord, then sorrow passes away from it. Swetacwatarea Upanishad If all is in truth Sachchidananda, death, suffering, evil, limitation can only be the creations, positive in practical effect, negative in essence, of a distorting consciousness which has fallen from the total and unifying knowledge of itself into some error of division and partial experience. This is the fall of man ty

NO.6 THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER VI MAN IN THE UNIVERSE     The Soul of man, a traveler, wanders in this cycle of Brahman, huge, a totality of lives, a totality of states , thinking itself different from the Impeller of the journey. Accepted by Him, it attains its goal of Immortality. Swetacwatarea Upanishad.     The progressive revelation of a great, a transcendent, a luminous Reality with the multitudinous relativities of this world that we see and those other worlds that we do not see as means and material, condition and field, this would seem then to be the meaning of the universe,—since meaning and aim it has and is neither a purposeless illusion no

No. 4 THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER IV REALITY OMNIPRESENT       If one know Him as Brahman the Non-Being, he becomes merely the non-existent. H one knows that Brahman Is, then is he known as the real in existence.       Taittiriya Upanishad.      Since, then, we admit both the claim of the pure Spirit to manifest in us its absolute freedom and the claim of universal Matter to be the mould and condition of our manifestation, we have to find a truth that can entirely reconcile these antagonists and can give to both their due portion in Life and their due justification in Thought, amercing neither of its rights, denying in neither the sovereign truth from

      Vol. 1 August 1914 - July 1915.               The philosophical Review ARYA was started in August 1914 and after six and half years it ended with the January 1921 issue. It was published under the joint editorship of Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Paul & Mirra Richard. A French edition was also issued but its publication ceased with the February 1915 issue after the first seven numbers appeared. Very few sets of this valued journal are available now and even these are crumbling and cannot be used for reference. They are being reprinted, photographically reproduced, in a limited edition for archival purposes. It may be