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<b><font size="4">The </font> </b><st1:place><font size="4"><st1:PlaceName><b>Golden</b></st1:PlaceName><b> </b>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THE Truth, the Supreme
Truth cannot be expressed here below, neither in words, nor in mental ideas: It
is inexpressible, <i>indeterminable – anirvacaniy'am, anirdesyam. </i>For, it
exists, it is found only where the creation ceases to <i>exist – prapancopasamam.<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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it is asked how does then the world itself exist? has it not come out of the
Truth? is it not an expression of the Divine? well, an easy answer is: Look at
the world and see what kind of</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>expression it is. Is it a
divine creation? What truth is there? In truth, it is an expression of
falsehood, it is all an error. So it has been declared by the great sages of
the past that this is a false creation; it is an illusion, a delusion. Why is
it so? How is it so? Go beyond it, into the Truth beyond, you will know. Being
in the illusion, how can you perceive that it is an illusion, or why or how is
it an illusion? This is one way of looking at the problem, we may say, a very
categorical or radical way. But there are other possibilities, other lines of
approach.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This
creation as an expression of the Divine Truth may not be altogether a
falsehood. It is an inadequate expression, as it stands at present, as it has
been till now; but it is a growing, a progressive expression. In other words,
the instruments of expression, to start with, are not fully developed, they
have to be developed; they are being developed, through the evolutionary movement
of Nature, in the course of advancing time. Indeed evolution in Nature means that
and a great deal of that.</p>

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for example, speech, which is a special organ of expression for man. Now,
originally speech, that is to say, the vocabulary on man's tongue consisted of vocables related only
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>to the familiar objects
around him, in the ordinary day to day movement of life. The field was narrow
and limited, level to the ground. Observe the language also, the written
language. The original written language started with images, pictorial diagrams:
there was no alphabet but things and movements were presented, that is
represented, almost actually. Thus for man a figure of man was drawn, that is
to say, straight lines sticking out representing hands and legs and a dot for
the head; the sun was a circle and so on. As consciousness grew and as the mind
developed and reason became active, the images, the figures and the symbols
gradually changed into more and more abstract signs. At first there was the
pictogram, then the ideogram, and then, at the end, came the alphabet.
Evidently, it appears, language could not develop so quickly as the
consciousness or the mind did, for we see even in the earlier epochs of human civilisation and culture, man could and did come in contact with the Truth and
Realities beyond his normal sense-bound consciousness. And the experiences the
seers had on those levels were of such a kind that whenever they sought to
express them, communicate them to others in the outward mind and speech, they
had to take refuge in symbolism: they had to use the words of everyday life as
signs and symbols pointing to other realities, other-worldly and unfamiliar.
Thus, horse was to them life-force, cow the radiance of truth, the wind thought
energies, the sun consciousness or Truth, night as ignorance, light as
knowledge, wine <i><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow"'>(</span>soma<span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> </span></i>means both wine and moon) as
delight and ecstasy, the sky as infinity or transcendence. And so on.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Indeed,
that is the hiatus, the inadequacy that still cripples and stultifies the mind,
the physical mind in its attempt to seize other realities beyond. It is the
mind which gives the formal structure, the pattern of expression in the
material frame. The mind being bound to the life of the ignorant and outgoing
senses is constitutionally incapable of receiving or holding or expressing
facts of the higher life, the life beyond – what we name as the spiritual or
the divine. Not only so, the mind in trying to express the higher or supraterrestrial truths inevitably diminishes, dilutes, devalues, even negates
and annuls them. The attempt through parables and allegories is the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>story of
the difficulty – the impossibility of expressing through the mind truths beyond
the mind. We land into the weird and confused worlds of myths and mythologies,
– myths and mythologies for example about popular Radha and <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>,
and Kali or Shiva. We are compelled to reduce to our human measures, to
accentuate our human failings in order to present graphically to us the
inexpressible intensities or extensions of the high experiences above. The
Vaishnava lyrics or the songs of Solomon become to us high spiritual documents.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Man
started his life on earth as an animal and is still continuing to be so in a
large measure: his mental equipment also was almost wholly conditioned by the
necessities of such a situation: his language, his culture even built upon an
outward view of things, upon the mode and manner of his physical reactions to
impacts of the gross outward world, the brute objects of physical life.</p>

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liberation of the mind, at least the higher mind, as an instrument of
expression for the human consciousness was achieved to a remarkable degree in
the Upanishads generally, particularly in some, although the beginnings of it
might be traced even in some of the earliest of the Vedic Riks. A serious and
persistent attempt for this liberation was made later, in the age or rather
ages of the Gita, the Mahabharata, the Darshanas. It was the rational spirit
that impelled and inspired the Buddhist consciousness and in <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>
it had its heyday in the age of Socrates and Plato. Those were intellectual
ages and the intellect was trying to find and explore its own domain in its
full and free power and sovereignty. And the human language too, as a
necessary corollary was remoulded, remodelled, rationalised: it shook itself
away as far as possible from the prejudices and prepossessions of the
sense-bound mind. That is the inner story of the growth of language from the
synthetic inflexional cohesive stage to its modern analytic discursive
character. </p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Still,
however, it is not easy to completely ignore or efface the influence of a concrete
truth, a fact which is at the basis of human birth – the truth and fact of the
body, of the external material objects. For example, how to express That which
does not belong to this world, has not the measures of this body? The Upanishad
has perforce to speak negatively of the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Supreme positive Reality.
It has to say, &quot;It is not this, it is not this, it is quite other than all
this, it has no parallel here below although it is the source and origin of all
this.&quot; We have found some positive words <i>indeed – sat-cit-ananda; </i>but
the other key-word is a negative in <i>structure – amrtam, </i>not death.
Immortality means not mortality, and <i>ananta </i>too is a negative
expression. We remember the famous lines: <i>Na tatra surya bhati </i>etc.,¹
it is a supreme revelation, it is supremely evocative but it is built up of
negatives. The Vedic rishis followed a different line, as I said; they did not
evade or reject the materials of a physical life, they boldly grasped them and
used them as signs, symbols, embodiments of other truths and realities. They
accepted the sun, the moon, the stars, man and woman, even the normal
activities of life but they gave these quite a different connotation. They
filled them with a new depth and density, a higher specific gravity.</p>

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instruments being inadequate, it was necessary to bypass them and take to an
indirect way for expressing realities that are beyond them. Neither the
language nor the mental concepts were the vessels that could hold the divine
drink. And sometimes the result was not very happy.</p>

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movement of freeing the consciousness from the hold of sense-perceptions has
continued and has attained an unprecedented success. Rational mind, in order
to find its autonomy has abstracted itself so much from the data of life experiences
that it has become almost an esoteric domain. Mathematical logic of today has
brought forth a language that has almost no kinship with either the popular or
the aristocratic tongue. Modern science has so much sublimated the facts of life,
the contents of experience, that it has become only a system of geometrical
formulae.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
recoil from the brute facts of life, the concrete living realities has affected
even the world of artistic creation. We are very much familiar with what has
been called abstract art, that is to say, art denuded of all content. The
supreme art today is this sketch of bare skeleton – even a skeleton, not in its
organised form but merely dismembered bits strewn about. Even poetry, the art
that is perhaps most bound to the sense pattern, as no other, so indissolubly
married to sense-life, seems to be giving way to the new impact and
inspiration. </p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ <i>Katha Upanishad, </i>11.2.15</span></p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A poetry devoid of all
thought-content, pure of all sentiment and understandable imagery is being
worked out in the laboratory, as it were, a new poetry made of a bizarre
combination of tones and syllables with a changed form too in regard to
arrangement of lines and phrases. It is the pure form that is aimed at – the
very essence, it is said, what is quintessential!</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
other words, mind, that is to say, the rational mind on which stands man's
superiority has now been so developed, developed along a single line, has
specialised itself so much that it has almost defeated its own purpose. Today
it has entered a <i>cul-de-sac, </i>a blind alley where it has bogged itself
and does not know where and how to move.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
recoil from the normal, the rich and lush physico-mental expression of human
consciousness and experience has been so radical and complete that it has
catapulted us into an opposite extreme of bareness and nudity, at the most into
a world of pure signs and symbols of notches and blotches, the disjointed
mimics and inarticulate groans of a deaf and dumb man. The process of
abstraction has gone so far that it has now been reduced to an absurdity. It
has its parallel in the movement that led man away from the world of Maya to
the Transcendent featureless Brahman. In either case the reason is that the
link that joins the two ends could not be found – a living truth that is of the
Transcendent, yet denying not, but affirming in a new manner the mayic
existence. That is because man till now sought to create from a level of
consciousness, by a force of consciousness that is not adequate to the task;
for it belongs still to the mental region, to this inferior hemisphere although
at present it seems to be the acme and topmost hemisphere in the scale. It is
not an extension or intensification of the mind and its capacities that will
solve the problem: a radical change in the very nature of the mind, a reversal
of the mental consciousness – a turning of it inside out as it were, an
opening out and up is needed to discover the true source of the Light.
Therefore it has been said that man must transcend himself, find a new status
in the other hemisphere. In fact there is a domain, a status of being and
consciousness, a master-force which when revealed and made active will remould
inevitably and spontaneously human creation and expression as a reality
embodying the Highest. It is the world of Idea-Force which</p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sri Aurobindo has named
Supermind: it is beyond the mind, even the highest mind: it is the typal
concentration of the Supreme Consciousness. It is the fulcrum for the Supreme
Consciousness to create and express a new formulation of the Truth in the world
of matter. The mind, the highest mind, in its attempt to grasp the Supreme
Reality is prone to reject, annul and efface the Cosmic Reality. The Supermind
has no need to do that. It links the two ends in a supreme and miraculous
synthesis negating neither, giving the full value to each, for the two are
united, concentrated in its substance. Thus is found the golden bridge uniting
earth and heaven.</p>

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physical mind, with its satellite, the human speech, must indeed be rescued
from the thraldom of the animal life, the life of the ordinary senses. They
should be put under the regimen of the new consciousness, the status of the
Idea-Force. The action of that consciousness will create its own norm and
pattern adequate for expressing and embodying suprasensuous realities. It will
not have to depend upon allegories and parables, symbols and signs seized from
ordinary life. What exactly this will be is difficult to say at present.
Evidently there is likely to be an intermediary creation – a passage leading
from the sensuous to the supra-sensuous, the higher not totally rejecting the
lower or primitive formula, the lower not altogether englobing and swallowing
the higher.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
mantra of <i>Savitri </i>wields a language and expresses a physical mind that
already shows how the alchemy will be done or is being done: the transmutation
of the ordinary experience into a supra-sensuous or the supra-sensuous embodying
itself in the sensuous. The process is still in a state of transition, and as a
sample of the process in action and a prefigure or for taste of the achievement,
may be recognisable in the famous sonnet of Sri Aurobindo which I quote here in
full and conclude.</p>

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<b>THE
GOLDEN LIGHT</b></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thy golden Light came down
into my brain</p>

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grey rooms of mind sun-touched became</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A bright reply to Wisdom's
occult plane,</p>

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illumination and a flame.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thy golden Light came down into my throat,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And all
my speech is now a tune divine,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A paean-song of thee my single note;</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>My words
are drunk with the Immortal's wine.</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thy golden Light came down
into my heart</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:10.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Smiting
my life with Thy eternity;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Now has it grown a temple
where Thou art</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:10.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And all
its passions point towards only Thee.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thy golden Light came down
into my feet:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>My earth is now thy
playfield and thy seat.²</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>² <i>Collected Poems </i>[Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, vol.
5, p. 134]</span></p>
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