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<p class="paracenter">THIS EXPANDING UNIVERSE
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The universe is a manifestation, that is to say, the un-folding of 
infinite possibilities. The unfolding has not stopped, it is continuing and will 
continue, throwing out or bringing into physical expression all that lies behind 
and latent. The universe may be considered as a sphere or globe, a totality or 
assemblage containing everything that exists here and is being manifested. 
Beyond and outside, as it were, this circle of creation lies the transcendent, 
the Supreme Divine, in his own status. The transcendent means the unmanifest. It 
does not mean, however, the void; for it contains all that is to be manifested, 
each and everything in its potentiality, its essence, in a seed form. All is 
there as a secret possibility, a fundamental truth of being—all is there not 
simply as a general idea, but in every detail, though as it were on a 
microscopic scale, something like the chromosomes in life plasm. The 
transcendent is beyond time and space. Manifestation or creation begins with the 
formulation of time and space, the frame in which what lay latent is gradually 
brought out and displayed. The transcendent is consciousness absorbed in itself, 
identified with itself; manifestation is consciousness waking and looking at 
itself as its object <i>(La prise de conscience objective de soi). </i>
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Now, one can be seated or fixed 
exclusively in the</p>
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<p class="para">status of the unmanifest; to such 
a one the infinite and eternal is an everpresent reality, there is nothing like 
past or future, everything is. One knows and is in the presence of a fixed 
actuality; whatever happened, whatever will happen—as it seems to us—all are 
there realised on the same plane and at the same moment (although the terms 
plane and moment do not quite apply there). It is the world or status of the 
absolutely determined. Free choice or indeterminacy, the unexpected and the 
unforeseen have no place here.
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<p class="para"> On the contrary, the sphere of 
manifestation is precisely the field of the sudden and the incalculable, that is 
to say, of free will. Things appear here that were not before, forces come into 
play that were not expected or even imagined. They all move along lines that 
shift and change continually. This is the status of becoming —sambh&#363;ti, 
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<p class="para"> But in between the two, on the 
borderland, as it were, there is a poise of consciousness which combines both in 
an integral perception, it is a single movement of both being and becoming. It 
is the Supermind. It is the point where what is or exists in the unmanifest just 
becomes It is the Supermind. 
It is 
the point where what is or exists in the unmanifest just <i>becomes </i>in the 
manifest, the pure truth or reality above at standstill stirs and begins to come 
out or disengage</p>
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<p class="para">itself through a play of possibles. It is like a cinema film that is rolled up and kept in a spool till 
it is put on the projector and rolled out gradually upon the screen of life and 
in life-size presentation.
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<p class="para"> The transcendent then is an 
integral reality, for it contains all and the whole, but it is of fixed 
dimension <i>—avyaya, </i>it neither 
increases, nor decreases: it is the Stable, the <i>Stagnant-sthanuracaloyam. </i>
The cosmos, on the other hand, is not only moving and changing, butalso ever 
increasing or expanding. For new possibles are becoming reals here and 
adding to the sum of its factors. Out of the transcendent, the unmanifest, are 
constantly shooting down potentials and becoming dynamic in the universe making 
it richer and ever richer.</p>
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<p class="para"> Furthermore, this expansion is 
not merely accretion but a growth, that is to say, it is directed and has a 
sense and purpose and end in view. In fact all the possibles that find play, the 
elements that enter here below are necessary in as much as they contribute to 
the meaning of the Play, to the working out of the denouement. We can take again 
the analogy of the cinema film and say that the unrolling film is interesting 
because it has a continuous and developing story to tell, with a beginning, a 
middle and an end. Likewise, the manifestation too tells a connected story—it is 
not a drivel, but has a goal; it is a process elaborated by a <i>final cause. </i>
Even like an individual being it is an 
organism, ever growing and bringing out its latent possibilities, moving towards 
a high fruition of its aspiration and destiny.</p>
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<p class="para"> In this sense manifestation is a 
more complete—and more and more complete—reality than the non-manifest Supreme. 
The non-manifest, the transcendent is an integral reality, the manifestation a 
completer reality, since it adds to it its own reality, the actuality of 
concrete expression.
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