Preparing for the Miraculous

sri aurobindo and the big bang 201matter is the first produce of the Inconscient, the dark Zerothat is the contrary into which the Divine has plunged. Atthe very beginning of Savitri we read:A fathomless zero occupied the world.A power of fallen boundless self awakeBetween the first and the last Nothingness ...Here is that “zero” again that held infinity in its sum,and which Sri Aurobindo would confirm by asserting that“The Inconscient too is infinite.” 14The other matter of special interest is the resemblanceof the lines of our quotation with elements of the quantumtheory known as “the quantum vacuum.” (It shouldbe stated here explicitly that this comparison is not meantas a scientific explanation intending to show that scienceproves spirituality. All is That, science too. But spiritualityis holistic, based on experience. Science is an activity of themind, restricting itself to matter as perceived by the senses.Spirituality can know now; to really know, science willhave to break through the boundaries of materialism it hasimposed on itself, and take up the exploration of the realmsof life and mind before it can found a durable knowledge.)Decades before Sri Aurobindo wrote the quoted passagein Savitri, he had already noted, interpreting the oldscriptures: “As in the immobile ether arises, first sign ofthe creative impulse of Nature, vibration, Shabda, and thisvibration is a line of etheric movement, is ether contactingether in its own field of mobile self-force and that primal stiris sufficient to initiate all forms and forces, even such is theoriginal movement of the Infinite. But the vibration is notthe stir of any material force or substance and this contact isnot material contact. This is a vibration of consciousness inspiritual essence; this is the contact of consciousness with14 Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, p. 318.