A scene of Creation according to Savitri, by Sri Aurobindo

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"On the hearth of Space it kindled a viewless Fire

That, scattering worlds as one might scatter seeds,

Whirled out the luminous order of the stars.

An ocean of electric Energy

Formlessly formed its strange wave-particles

Constructing by their dance this solid scheme,

Its mightiness in the atom shut to rest;

Masses were forged or feigned and visible shapes;

Light flung the photon's swift revealing spark

And showed, in the minuteness of its flash

Imaged, this cosmos of apparent things.

Thus has been made this real impossible world,

An obvious miracle or convincing show."

 

So speaks the unbridled tongue of the great sage. If one may ask, this

seems to be true in its extent of detail upon our material beginning

according to modern science. Ask yourselves, does this only include

the macrocosm of being or does it also play true within our microcosm

of self?

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Beautiful! Can you pls tell us which chapter its taken from, as I

havent read Savitri, and also offer a bit of commentary on it, viz,

what is Sri Aurobindo trying to explain?

 

Thanks

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This excerpt is from Canto 5, "Godheads of the Little Life" of Book

2 in Sri Aurobindo's epic, "Savitri." This is a good example of what

Sri Aurobindo calls, the "Substance of Matter" during the creation,

according to "The Life Divine." Since we know that this was written

well before Modern physics had developed string theory, it is by far

beyond me on how clear and precise Aurobindo explains matter's

creation through the Involution of the Unthought Idea or

Satchidananda through Supermind.

 

"An ocean of electric Energy

Formlessly formed its strange wave-particles

Constructing by their dance this solid scheme,

Its mightiness in the atom shut to rest"

 

Basically what is stated here is the reality of the force of energy

becoming enclosed within an atom. As said by Stephen Hawking and

Brian Green, this would indicate the hidden dimensions within this

universe, packed into infintissimal areas as the strings are

vibrating as waves do in an ocean. Therefore this indicates not only

the materialistic but also the spiritual(conscious) power within the

atom and its existence.

 

"When science discovers that Matter resolves into forms of Energy,

it has hold of a universal and fundamental truth....."

"The Life Divine" pg. 249.

 

Further commentary on the excerpt soon to follow.

[Guest guest]

Excellent Serpico, pls do post on this further.

 

Indian Philosophy has already been ahead of Science. The problem with

science is they are too focussed on the material(physical) world, and

refuse to accept the subtle world at all.

 

While Indian philsophers like Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda, Yogananda

etc have always insisted that the subtle worlds are more powerful, and

all meditations/Yoga work at this level, Science doesnt even know

about it.

 

Of course in Quantum Physics, the boundary b/w Physical and Subtle is

vanishing. As Quantum physics shows, a particle can be at 2 places(or

more) at once, it can "guess" events in the future. Scientists are at

a loss to explain all this phenomena. Perhaps sooner or later they

will stumble on the Subtle worlds, and that day a revolution will

come, as Science will have to accept most of its theories were either

wrong or gross simplifications.

 

Shantnu