The Synthesis of Yoga - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Chapter XXV
Towards the Supramental
Time Vision
ALL BEING, consciousness, knowledge moves, secretly
for our present surface awareness, openly when we rise
beyond it to the spiritual and supramental ranges, between
two states and powers of existence, that of the timeless
Infinite and that of the Infinite deploying in itself and organising
all things in time. These two states are opposed to and
incompatible with each other only for our mental logic with its
constant embarrassed stumbling around a false conception of
contradictions and a confronting of eternal opposites. In reality,
as we find when we see things with a knowledge founded on
the supramental identity and vision and think with the great,
profound and flexible logic proper to that knowledge, the two
are only coexistent and concurrent status and movement of the
same truth of the Infinite. The timeless Infinite holds in itself,
in its eternal truth of being, beyond this manifestation, all that
it manifests in Time. Its time consciousness too is itself infinite
and maintains in itself at once in a vision of totalities and of
particularities, of mobile succession or moment sight and of
total stabilising vision or abiding whole sight what appears to
us as the past of things, their present and their future.
The consciousness of the timeless Infinite can be brought
home to us in various ways, but is most ordinarily imposed on
our mentality by a reflection of it and a powerful impression or
else made present to us as something above the mind, something
of which it is aware, towards which it lifts, but into which it
cannot enter because itself lives only in the time sense and in the
succession of the moments. If our present mind untransformed
by the supramental influence tries to enter into the timeless, it
must either disappear and be lost in the trance of Samadhi or