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<p class="paracenter">THE CONSTANTS OF THE SPIRIT
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<p class="para">The Divine exists in three modes: (1) Existence, (2) 
Consciousness and (3) Bliss. Pure existence, pure consciousness and pure 
bliss—Sat-Chit-Ananda— these are the three fundamental elements out of which the 
world is made; they are everywhere in all things, in all beings, in all domains 
and levels of being. Sach-chidananda is the supreme reality that is behind all, 
even here below, behind the mind, behind the life and behind the body too and 
behind each form in each of these domains. It is that which upholds and sustains 
everything. Therefore in order to realise it, it is not necessary to mount up, 
leaving behind the mental, the vital and physical existence and go beyond. 
Usually when one seeks Sachchidananda one looks for it outside the universe, 
above and beyond the creation, in the transcendent. In reality, however, one can 
meet it from any place where one happens to be, either in the mind or in the 
vital or even in the physical; one has only to withdraw and sink down, or get 
behind: it is there always. To meet Sachchidananda in and through the physical 
existence is not very much more difficult or rare a thing than the
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<p class="para">other ways; it is more difficult and rare to maintain it there 
constantly and consciously, to make of it a dynamic physical possession. That is 
the work to be done and for which Sri Aurobindo came.
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