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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.
Swetaswatara Upanishad.1
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 erro
The Life Divine
Publisher's Note
The Life Divine
first appeared serially in the monthly review Arya
between August 1914 and January 1919. Each instalment was written
immediately before its publication. In 1939 and 1940 Sri Aurobindo
revised
The Life Divine
for book publication. The first volume of the revised version, consisting of
the first twenty-seven chapters of the
Arya
text, along with a newly written twenty-eighth chapter, was published in
November 1939. The revision of all but two of the
Arya
chapters was light.
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Chapter III
The Two Negations
2
The Refusal of the Ascetic
All this is the Brahman; this Self is the Brahman and the Self is fourfold.
Beyond relation, featureless, unthinkable, in which all is still.
Mandukya Upanishad.1
AND STILL there is a beyond.
For on the other side of the cosmic consciousness there is, attainable to us, a consciousness yet more transcendent,
―transcendent not only of the ego, but of the Cosmos itself,
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Chapter II
The Two Negations
1
The Materialist Denial
He energised conscious-force (in the austerity of thought) and came to the knowledge that Matter is the Brahman. For from Matter all existences are born; born, by Matter they increase and enter into Matter in their passing hence. Then he went to Varuna, his father, and said, "Lord, teach me of the Brahman." But he said to him: "Energise (again) the conscious-energy in thee; for the Energy is Brahman."
Taittiriya Upanishad.1
THE AFFIRMATION of a divine life upon earth and an immortal sens
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Chapter XVII
The Divine Soul
He whose self has become all existences, for he has the knowledge, how shall he be deluded, whence shall he have grief, he
who sees everywhere oneness?
Isha Upanishad.1
BY THE conception we have formed of the Supermind,
by its opposition to the mentality on which our human existence is
based, we are able not only to form a precise instead of a vague
idea of divinity and the divine life, ―expressions which we are otherwise condemned to use with looseness and as the vague wording of a large but almost impalpable
aspiration, ―but also to give these ideas