Sri Aurobindo has given to the world a Theory of Creation. In the course of explaining the features of His theory, He details the process through which creation passes. This has been a question eternally presenting itself to the human mind without finding an adequate answer. Sri Aurobindo's Theory and the Process attempt to meet that need adequately.

• Acts flow out of decisions of the mind, as the decision of the mind directs the acts of the body.
• Therefore, decision lies in the descent where mind rules over the body, matter.
• Looking at it from the view of the three poises of Time - Time, Timelessness and Simultaneous integrality - decisions are in the third status, not from Sri Aurobindo's point of view of Spiritual evolution, but the one from that of the body.
• Being, Becoming and Being of the Becoming all have their subdivided statuses of the three planes of Time.

• Cosmic Determinants, the Decision-Making Process of creation is defined by Sri Aurobindo as The Infinite's Self-conception of Form that carries the Force.
• Sri Aurobindo explains how that decision translates into an act through a rhythm and a process.
• What is true of creation is true of the Individual as well as any other event national, organisational or international.
• Michael Brecher of Canada studied the two successions of power in India in 1964 and 1966 in such minute detail and collected a wealth of details that are empirically vali

• The only protection that man needs is protection from himself.
• Though it is simple and self-evident, it sounds outrageous.
• It is easier for us to see this truth after we have come to Mother as Her conscious atmosphere enables us to be a little objective and see. Though the principle remains true earlier, it is not so easy as our subjectivity then was greater.
• Every failure in our life and in the life around us after coming to Mother issues out of a conscious choice of ours.

Normally our existence is a preoccupation - an egoistic preoccupation. Such interests are limited and fleeting. Having withdrawn from such a preoccupation, we become curious to know. Now that we are dispassionate, our search is only for the Truth. First, we perceive a boundless energy. We see that energy pouring itself out in limitless Space and in eternal Time. It is an existence that infinitely surpasses our ego or any ego. We find that first result as an infinite existence, infinite movement and infinite activity. That existence surpasses even the collective ego.

Questions under several heads:

I  Elementary

 1.  Difference between Purusha and the Psychic being.

 2.  Surrendering one's experience.  (The joy of belonging to the Divine is still egoistic. One should wish to be the Divine, not to belong to Him).

Man has been searching from the beginning. What is he searching for? Is it not for freedom from the immediate fetters, is it not for mastery over his environment, is it not for knowledge of events and things? The mystic calls it God; the rationalist calls it knowledge. Can we not go behind these two terms and find a common concept?  These two ideas combine in a very simple term of infinity, which, in initial stages, might have meant more of freedom, knowledge and longer life.

November 11, 1996

The common conception is that Reason and Mysticism are antitheses. The venture of writing The Life Divine itself is an attempt to defy this conception. The truth behind it is expressed in His truism that the yogi must be able to turn his hand to any craft. As mind is partial, it is limited. Supermind, being whole, is not vitiated by that limitation. So, the implication is the Supramental reason or rather reason elevated to Supermind must succeed where the human reason failed.

• Sri Aurobindo explains on page 56 of The Life Divine that Reason asserts its Transcendence.
• The common conception is that Reason is a bar to reach the Transcendence.
• Reason, He says, does not seek the lesser error, but the Truth that is error free.
• On the face of it, the apparent contradiction we have so far conceded seems to be resolved.
• It will be really resolved when we see the truth of it in our daily life.