Preparing for the Miraculous

preparing for the miraculous 49miracle, an act of some incomprehensible magic.” 3 And ina letter he writes: “Science, like most mental and externalknowledge, gives you only truth of process. I would addthat it cannot give you the whole truth of process; for youseize some of the ponderables, but miss the all-importantimponderables ... After all the triumphs and marvels of Sciencethe explaining principle, the rationale, the significanceof the whole is left as dark, as mysterious and even moremysterious than ever.” 4“There is no fundamental significance in things if youmiss the Divine Reality; for you remain embedded in ahuge surface crust of manageable and utilizable appearance.It is the magic of the Magician [the Divine as Creator]you are trying to analyze, but only when you enter intothe consciousness of the Magician himself can you begin toexperience the true origination, significance and circles ofthe Lila. I say ‘begin’ because the Divine Reality is not sosimple that at the first touch you can know all of it or put itinto a single formula; it is the infinite and opens before youan infinite knowledge to which all Science put together isa bagatelle.” 5If reality consists of the hierarchical gradations whichfrom old have been called the Chain of Being, modern science,with physics as its norm, has voluntarily blocked itsown access to reality, for it has chosen as its fundamentalpremise that all existence is material and nothing else. In afuture world of Truth, however, the whole of reality mustbe taken into account. As Sri Aurobindo writes: “If scienceis to turn her face towards the Divine, it must be a new sciencenot yet developed which deals directly with the forces3 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 341.4 Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga, p. 197.5 Ibid.