The whole crux and difficulty of human life lies here. Man is
this mental being, this mental consciousness working as mental
force, aware in a way of the universal force and life of which
he is part but, because he has not knowledge of its universality
or even of the totality of his own being, unable to deal either
with life in general or with his own life in a really effective and
victorious movement of mastery. He seeks to know Matter in
order to be master of the material environment, to know Life
in order to be master of the vital existence, to know Mind in
order to be master of the great obscure movement of mentality
in which he is not only a jet of light of self-consciousness like the
animal, but also more and more a flame of growing knowledge.
Thus he seeks to know himself in order to be master of himself,
to know the world in order to be master of the world. This is
the urge of Existence in him, the necessity of the Consciousness
he is, the impulsion of the Force that is his life, the secret will
of Sachchidananda appearing as the individual in a world in
which He expresses and yet seems to deny Himself. To find the
conditions under which this inner impulsion is satisfied is the
problem man must strive always to resolve and to that he is
compelled by the very nature of his own existence and by the
Deity seated within him; and until the problem is solved, the
impulse satisfied, the human race cannot rest from its labour .
Either man must fulfil himself by satisfying the Divine within
him or he must produce out of himself a new and greater being
who will be more capable of satisfying it. He must either himself
become a divine humanity or give place to Superman.
THE LIFE DIVINE
THE PROBLEM OF LIFE
Page.no.208,209
this mental being, this mental consciousness working as mental
force, aware in a way of the universal force and life of which
he is part but, because he has not knowledge of its universality
or even of the totality of his own being, unable to deal either
with life in general or with his own life in a really effective and
victorious movement of mastery. He seeks to know Matter in
order to be master of the material environment, to know Life
in order to be master of the vital existence, to know Mind in
order to be master of the great obscure movement of mentality
in which he is not only a jet of light of self-consciousness like the
animal, but also more and more a flame of growing knowledge.
Thus he seeks to know himself in order to be master of himself,
to know the world in order to be master of the world. This is
the urge of Existence in him, the necessity of the Consciousness
he is, the impulsion of the Force that is his life, the secret will
of Sachchidananda appearing as the individual in a world in
which He expresses and yet seems to deny Himself. To find the
conditions under which this inner impulsion is satisfied is the
problem man must strive always to resolve and to that he is
compelled by the very nature of his own existence and by the
Deity seated within him; and until the problem is solved, the
impulse satisfied, the human race cannot rest from its labour .
Either man must fulfil himself by satisfying the Divine within
him or he must produce out of himself a new and greater being
who will be more capable of satisfying it. He must either himself
become a divine humanity or give place to Superman.
THE LIFE DIVINE
THE PROBLEM OF LIFE
Page.no.208,209
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