INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

COMPLETE WORKS OF DR K.C.VARADACHARI – VOL10
denials of Finalism as well as of determinism bode no
escape from the dynamic actuality of spiritual growth in
man in his movements.
II
Sri Aurobindo has affirmed in the opening lines
of the Life Divine that man yearns after four goals
integral to one another and not opposed to each other.
"The divination of Godhead, the impulse towards
perfection, the search after pure truth and
unmixed bliss, the sense of immortality”.
Divination or that occult manner of knowing God
which is not to be had by means of the senses, nor by
thought that infers the unknown by means of the
known, but by a direct revelation of the form and nature
of God to the awakened intuition. The impulse towards
perfection is also not within the competence of
consciousness that man has which is intended for his
action, vyavahara, in society, in the environment. It is
seen that this impulse is directly different from the
instincts which are life-preserving autograms so to
speak. It is deeper than the need for saving life, for
perfection is sought even at the perilous cost of life
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