Preparing for the Miraculous

sri aurobindo and the big bang 211we must then at least consent to scrutinize life and mind bymethods appropriate to them and explain their facts in thelanguage and tokens of the vital and mental Brahman.” 34Western scientific materialism, after initially acceptingthe Book of God (the Bible) and the Book of Nature, as Galileoand Kepler did, has rejected the former and accepts exclusivelythe latter, not realizing that it is trying to decipheran amputated version. To solve its own fundamental problems,to approach closer to reality, and to see ultimatelythe face of Truth, it will have to recognize the other levelsand dimensions of the world. “If science is to turn her facetowards the Divine, it must be a new science not yet developedwhich deals directly with the forces of the life-worldand of Mind and so arrives at what is beyond Mind; butpresent-day science cannot do that.” 35The way science sees itself has changed since the publicationin 1972 by Thomas Kuhn of The Structure of ScientificRevolutions. Scientists are now aware of how dependenttheir theories and even their formulas are on paradigmswhich are sure to change one day. Such changes are painfuland bitterly fought by the old against the new; they aresaid to become definitive only after the death of those whorefuse to accept that they were wrong. A science which willone day venture into the realms of life and mind Sri Aurobindocalled the “future science.” And he warned that itwill be “a big step to take.”Only then will be recognized that the universe, universesor multiverse – whatever they may really be – arethere as the body of hiranyagarbha, the Golden Child, ofwhich the Upanishad says: “In the beginning the Golden34 Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, p. 194.35 Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga, p. 205.