Preparing for the Miraculous

222 eleven talksOmega. Brahman is the One besides whom there is nothingelse existent.” 15 “All action, all mental, vital, physicalactivities in the world are the operation of a universalEnergy, a Consciousness-Force which is the power of theCosmic Spirit working out the cosmic and individual truthin things.” Therefore “in reality all that we call undivinecan only be an action of the four divine principles themselves.”Each principle is also the other principles and theDivine as a whole. “Each single act and movement fallsby the fiat of the omnipotent omniscience which works asthe Supermind inherent in things.” 16 “Chance is not in thisuniverse,” writes Sri Aurobindo in his Thoughts and Aphorisms.17 If there were chance in this universe, it would notbe an inherent manifestation of the divine Unity and Truth.The Divine would be a flawed Entity.If all is the One, then nature in her entirety is also the One.“What Nature does, is really done by the Spirit.” 18 “All herworks are instinct with an absolute intelligence.” 19 Natureis part of the divine manifestation; the divine manifestationis the work of the divine Power, the Consciousness/Force,also called the Great Mother, or known as Maya, Prakriti,Lila. 20 “World is the play of the Mother of things moved tocast Herself for ever into infinite forms and avid of eternallyoutpouring experiences.” 21 This leads to the conclusion thatthere cannot be any mistakes in Nature. “When we speakindeed of the errors of Nature, we use a figure illegitimatelyborrowed from our human psychology and experience, for15 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 33.16 Id., pp. 923, 160 and 196.17 Sri Aurobindo: Thoughts and Aphorisms, p. 5.18 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 370.19 Sri Aurobindo: The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 98.20 See talk 7: “Bridges across the Afterlife”.21 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 102.