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Study Notes PARAGRAPH 12 Contd…, But this conclusion is complicated by the fact that from another view-point our personal mind seems to be little more than a formation of universal…

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Study Notes PARAGRAPH 11 Contd…, In order to discover the secret of Consciousness it would have to know itself and determine the reality of its own being and process; but…

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Study Notes PARAGRAPH 10 Contd…, The bodily instrument may even in some directions dominate its user; it may too by a force of habit suggest or create involuntary reactions of…

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Study Notes PARAGRAPH 9      All the unexplained processes of Nature would find their meaning and their place if this hypothesis proved to be tenable. Energy seems to create…

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Study Notes PARAGRAPH 8      On that hypothesis, there must be behind the action of the material Energy a secret involved Consciousness, cosmic, infinite,building up through the action of…

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Study Notes PARAGRAPH 6 Contd…, Again the emergence of consciousness out of the Inconscient is a stumbling-block in the way of this theory; for it is a phenomenon which can…

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Study Notes PARAGRAPH 5      There is more to perplex us; for we see the original indeterminate Energy throwing out general determinates of itself,— we might equally in their…

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Study Notes PARAGRAPH 3      It is possible indeed to question the need of positing an Infinite which contains our formed universe, although this conception is imperatively demanded by…

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Study Notes PARAGRAPH 2      Moreover the knowledge gained is of phenomena, not of the reality of things or of the foundations of existence. Wherever our consciousness meets what…

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Study Notes Introduction In this chapter Sri Aurobindo discusses the following questions:     Consciousness-Force is the leading factor at work in this universe. But the Consciousness turned into Nescience, absence…