object:1969_09_18
book class:On Thoughts And Aphorisms
author class:The Mother
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
1969 Thu 18 September
Aphorism - 152, 153
152When our minds are involved in matter, they think matter the only reality; when we draw back into immaterial consciousness, then we see matter a mask and feel existence in consciousness alone as having the touch of reality. Which then of these two is the truth? Nay, God knoweth; but he who has had both experiences, can easily tell which condition is the more fertile in knowledge, the mightier and more blissful.
153I believe immaterial consciousness to be truer than material consciousness, because I know in the first what in the second is hidden from me and also can comm and what the mind knows in matter.
How can one always remain in an immaterial consciousness?
One cannot and it would not be good.
Sri Aurobindo does not mention here the consciousness that is higher than either of the two consciousnesses in question (material and immaterial), that is, the supramental consciousness which contains all the other consciousnesses in itself and can thus know everything on all planes of being. This is the consciousness we should aspire for, this is the consciousness which can teach us the total Truth.
18 September 1969
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Aphorism - 151
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