Secret of Accomplishment
Secrecy is the secret of accomplishment. The capacity to keep a secret is the capacity for accomplishment. A work can be accomplished if one has the knowledge that it should be kept a secret. A work done for its accomplishment, not for one’s prestige will be done. Darcy does so. Mr. Bennet does decide to repay Gardiner not because he should be so known, but his own conscience needs it. It is secret knowledge by virtue of neutral knowledge. In other words, a work accomplishes itself when left to itself, when it is unobserved, when no one draws prestige from it.
By secret here, we mean that it becomes the Absolute. Man, law, order, and rule not intervening, the Absolute accomplishes itself. Secret at this stage means Unity or Identity. In unity, all one's secret is lost. Losing secret, in other words, is the secret. One losing one's secret in another's secret is the Secret. Not having the secret becomes 'the secret'. Traditionally, secrecy is primary and essential. Knowledge is esoteric, for the initiated, not for the laity. Sri Aurobindo honors the rule, not in that sense. He speaks out the ideas, releasing them from secrecy. It remains a secret due to the lack of receptivity. Until the recipient comes to value the secret of the knowledge, it remains a secret to him. It is called a public secret, as truth-speaking. Sri Aurobindo releases esoteric knowledge from the shroud of secrecy by writing about them. When disclosed and displayed, it still remains the secret.
Veda was known as "மறை" meaning hidden. The language of the Vedas is cryptic. It is symbolic, cryptic. It is as in a crypt. Inside the crypt, it is dead. To be awake inside the crypt is the secret. The secret is NOT to have secrets.
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