Essays on the Gita -Aurobindo 323

Essays on the Gita -Sri Aurobindo Second Series : Chapter 7 The Supreme Word of the Gita Nothing is independently created here, nothing is caused self- sufficiently by these divine agents; everything finds its origin, cause, first spiritual reason for being and will to be in the absolute and supreme Godhead,—aham adih. sarvasah. Nothing in the universe has its real cause in the universe; all proceeds from this supernal Existence. The great Rishis, called here as in the Veda the seven original Seers, mahars. ayah. sapta purve, the seven Ancients of the world, are intelligence-powers of that divine Wisdom which has evolved all things out of its own self-conscious infinitude, prajn a pura nı , — developed them down the range of the seven principles of its own essence. These Rishis embody the all-upholding, all- illumining, all manifesting seven Thoughts of the Veda, sapta dhiyah. , — the Upanishad speaks of all things as being arranged in septettes, sapta sapta. Along with these are coupled the four eternal Manus, fathers of man, — for the active nature of the Godhead is fourfold and humanity expresses this nature in its fourfold character. These also, as their name implies, are mental beings. Creators of all this life that depends on manifest or latent mind for its action, from them are all these living creatures in the world; all are their children and offspring, yes am loka imah. praja h.. And these great Rishis and these Manus are themselves perpetual mental becomings of the supreme Soul and born out of his spiritual transcendence into cosmic Nature, — originators, but he the origin of all that originates in the universe. Spirit of all spirits, Soul of all souls, Mind of all mind, Life of all life, Substance of all form, this transcendent Absolute is no complete opposite of all we are, but on the contrary the originating and illuminating Absolute of all the principles and powers of our and the world’s being and nature. This transcendent Origin of our existence is not separated from us by any unbridgeable gulf and does not disown the crea- tures that derive from him or condemn them to be only the figments of an illusion. He is the Being, all are his becomings. He does not create out of a void, out of a Nihil or out of an un- substantial matrix of dream. Out of himself he creates, in himself he becomes; all are in his being and all is of his being. This truth admits and exceeds the pantheistic seeing of things.