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<p class="paracenter">TOWARDS REDEMPTION
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<p class="para"> As I have often said, creation is 
the self-objectivisation of the Supreme Divine; it is the supreme consciousness 
putting itself out of itself so that it may look at itself. In so doing—in 
self-objectifying and self-dividing— it scattered itself abroad: the one 
infinite multiplied itself into infinite atoms. Not only so, in detaching itself 
from itself the consciousness became the very opposite of itself: consciousness 
became unconsciousness, spirit became matter, delight became pain, knowledge 
became ignorance, and light became darkness. Boundless universality was the 
essential nature of the Divine, now it got clotted into the knots of egoism upon 
which is based this inconscient creation. In the midst of this utter negation, 
this denial by the universe of its origin, the Divine Love descended and lodged 
itself in order to bring back the erring creation to its lost home. The Divine 
Love became involved and entangled in the Inconscient, became one with it; only 
so could she (it was indeed the Divine Mother in her Grace) suffuse the 
inconscient universe with her own substance and transmute it into its original 
nature. The first effect or visible sign of this descent or divine
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<p class="para">infusion is the emergence of the psychic or the soul element in 
the material body: it is the speck of consciousness imbedded in matter, 
inhabiting the apparently dead particle or aggregate of particles, which 
continually grows in and through its relation of action and reaction with its 
surrounding unconsciousness, and at the same time extending its light into that 
darkness transforms it gradually into what it was originally at its source.
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<p class="para"> The origin of creation is an 
individualisation—the manifestation or emanation of many, as units, out of the 
undivided and indivisible Single. It meant freedom for each unit to choose: the 
individual became, so to say, a unit of freedom. The immediate result, however, 
was not very successful, apparently, that is to say. For the individual unit 
chose to follow a path exactly opposite to its origin: the individualisation 
happened as if an element shot out of the infinite unity and flung itself in its 
momentum, as far away as possible, to the other pole. That is how the one spirit 
became the infinite particles of inconscient matter. The purpose and problem 
then set was to bring back the straying elements to their source and origin. The 
work was long travail. It took and it is taking even
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<p class="para">now ages and ages for the one Being who could do the thing to 
prepare slowly, mount the steps gradually along which creation slid down, 
recover the ground painfully and achieve the hidden purpose, vindicating amply 
the deviation and the fall. Through devious ways, long winding, arduous marches 
the spirit of evolution laboured through millenniums: it was the instrument 
utilised by the Divine Grace.
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<p class="para"> The original individual was a 
hard concentrated point of ego, concerned wholly and absolutely with itself. So 
a situation of give and take was brought about so that even to exist meant to 
exist through others. Human society began in this way. The solitary human animal 
for its own sake had to come out of its solitariness, take to a mate and thus 
gradually bring up a family. The wall of egoism was broken to that extent, its 
scope extended. This enlargement of the ego continued—still continues—increasing 
the content of the unity. From the family the human ego enlarged into the tribe, 
and the tribal ego has now enlarged into the nation. Larger and larger 
aggregates are being formed in place of the original individual unities. The 
nations too are now approaching and interpenetrating each other and in many ways 
the whole of humanity has begun moving as an aggregate. The individual has thus 
learnt to find himself in the life of humanity as a whole. He has to look up—or 
will
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<p class="para">soon have to look up—to the whole creation as one existence in 
and through which he has to exist. Thus the universe is recovering its original 
indivisible unity, but having gained something in the process; for it is now no 
longer the featureless unity at the source but an enriched and multiple unity in 
expression. Furthermore the individual can proceed yet beyond. He has to and now 
is able to, not only in his individual but in his collective consciousness—turn 
back and move straight to its original unity: he can establish direct contact, 
commune and unite with the Divine Himself from whom it came and strayed away. 
The ranges of ascent are within him and are in line with those outside which the 
universe is traversing in the path of evolution. Such is the process the Divine 
Grace has undertaken to fulfil the Divine's purpose in creation.
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<p class="para"> The earliest sense of &quot;ego&quot; or 
&quot;I&quot; is limited and confined to one's own self as against others and other 
things. It is then that one has the feeling of want and asks for things he has 
not. He has shut out from his wingspread men and things, of his own accord, to 
enjoy his individual free will: he is now compelled to ask of them materials to 
enjoy, to grow and increase,</p>
<br><p class="pageno">Page-97</p>
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<p class="para">even to exist. On the other hand, if you enlarge yourself, if 
you identify yourself with all, then you find all things within yourself, you 
have no need to go out and seek for them, you have no feeling of want. Whatever 
is needed to be brought and utilised for a definite purpose or in a particular 
circumstance, at a certain time or place, is automatically presented then and 
there. You do not, however, lose your real &quot;I&quot;. Your &quot;I&quot; finds its &quot;I&quot; in all 
other &quot;I&quot;s and all other &quot;I&quot;s in the &quot;I&quot; you call yourself. You have lost your 
old ego, the small narrow person, and transcended and transmuted it into the 
cosmic and transcendental ego. The Divine is that ego and that individual 
person. In reality it is the Divine alone who is that, in the supreme and truest 
sense.
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