The Synthesis of Yoga - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

168 The Yoga of Divine Works
And yet even the leading of the inmost psychic being is
not found sufficient until it has succeeded in raising itself out
of this mass of inferior Nature to the highest spiritual levels
and the divine spark and flame descended here have rejoined
themselves to their original fiery Ether. For there is there no
longer a spiritual consciousness still imperfect and half lost to
itself in the thick sheaths of human mind, life and body, but
the full spiritual consciousness in its purity, freedom and intense
wideness. There, as it is the eternal Knower that becomes the
Knower in us and mover and user of all knowledge, so it is the
eternal All-Blissful who is the Adored attracting to himself the
eternal divine portion of his being and joy that has gone out into
the play of the universe, the infinite Lover pouring himself out in
the multiplicity of his own manifested selves in a happy Oneness.
All Beauty in the world is there the beauty of the Beloved, and
all forms of beauty have to stand under the light of that eternal
Beauty and submit themselves to the sublimating and transfiguring
power of the unveiled Divine Perfection. All Bliss and Joy
are there of the All-Blissful, and all inferior forms of enjoyment,
happiness or pleasure are subjected to the shock of the intensity
of its floods or currents and either they are broken to pieces
as inadequate things under its convicting stress or compelled to
transmute themselves into the forms of the Divine Ananda. Thus
for the individual consciousness a Force is manifested which can
deal sovereignly in it with the diminutions and degradations of
the values of the Ignorance. At last it begins to be possible to
bring down into life the immense reality and intense concreteness
of the love and joy that are of the Eternal. Or at any rate it will
be possible for our spiritual consciousness to raise itself out
of mind into the supramental Light and Force and Vastness;
there in the light and potency of the supramental Gnosis are the
splendour and joy of a power of divine self-expression and selforganisation
which could rescue and re-create even the world of
the Ignorance into a figure of the Truth of the Spirit.
There in the supramental Gnosis is the fulfilment, the culminating
height, the all-embracing extent of the inner adoration,
the profound and integral union, the flaming wings of Love