• Right and wrong are human conceptions not valid outside the society of humans.
• Satisfaction of Self-expression is common to the three worlds that find human existence in the middle, says Sri Aurobindo in a chapter on Delight of Existence.
• Until the Advent of Sri Aurobindo, the highest reach of Man was Mind, which functions through dualities that are contradictions.
• These contradictions are not entirely apart.

• Santa Claus is real to children as they get their presents from him during Christmas.
• They outgrow Santa Claus when they know it is the parents who give them Christmas presents.
• Santa Claus is a reality to the child's imagination.
• The uneducated vital man in prosperous nations considers social benefits as Christmas presents and the Society his Santa Claus.
• The educated non-mental vital man, not knowing the origin of genius or luck or even science, finds them miraculous.
• Miracle is the higher plane working in lower planes

Brahman becomes Existence by Self-conception.

This is Maya, the consciousness of Brahman.

Existence is also Existent.

The Existent is seen as Brahman. Purusha, Ishwara, Maya, Prakriti and Shakti are the powers.

One basic process of Creation is - objectifying at all stages.

The Existent by objectification becomes Spirit and Truth.

The Spirit by another objectification becomes Time and Space.

The Supermind divides the Existence into Existence, Consciousness and Bliss.

1. Rebirth must be considered not as a self-contained issue within life or human life, but as a part of the whole cosmos. The seed and the tree are explained by the cosmos and God explains the cosmos. Otherwise nothing is explained - First para in the chapter on 'Order of the Worlds'.

• The nature of the mind is to twist, distort, cut into pieces, reduce the wholeness of the thing to its own dimension.

• Knowledge is power.
• Precise knowledge is creative power.
• Measurable knowledge is knowledge turning into power.
• Measurable knowledge graded makes knowledge power in the measure that we need.
• Creation of instruments is a creative moment.
• An instrument is the material form of mental knowledge where conception has become sensation through saturated perception.
• So, scales and measurements are occasions where gathered knowledge changes into power at a higher level to initiate progress into evolution.
• Once a too

• The yogi who first realises, later understands what he has realised and how it can be explained to the others. This is the process Nature employs.
• The other process of education which civilisation employs is one of descent by social evolution where man first learns of the past experience of the society and lives it.
• To the aspiring sadhak, both are open. The first is arduous and slow. Even that is abridged by Mother's Force through faith, which is the knowledge of the soul.

• Man has been moving from the physical to the spiritual.
• This has been perceived as moving away from drudgery to enjoy collective life of mental leisure that develop culture.
• This movement is seen in his development of productivity and the organisation of social existence.
• Moving from hunting to agriculture to trade and commerce was the movement of productivity.
• From nomadic life, he moved into settlements, developed leadership and monarchy which is now changing into democracy.
• This has been the development of

Book II

Chapter II

Maya, Prakriti,  Lila

Book II, Chapter II