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exists in three modes: (I) Existence, (2) Conscious-ness 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.
Sachchidananda 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 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.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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