"Existence, consciousness and the
significance of our conscious being, -a triple enigma confronts us when we look
at them to discover their origin, foundations, nature, their innermost secret
"Existence itself is the first riddle. ...
"Consciousness of existence is a second
insoluble miracle. It is a premier fact and without it being would not know of
its own existence. Things might exist, but only as a useless encumbrance of a
meaningless space, - consciousness
makes being self-aware, gives it a significance. But what then is
consciousness? Is it something in the very grain of being or an unstable result
or fortuitous accident? To whom does it belong? Is it to the world as a whole?
Or is it peculiar to individual being? Or has it come from elsewhere into this
inanimate and inconscient universe? To what end this entry?
"The
significance of our conscious being in an inconscient material world is the
last and worst enigma "The problem of consciousness is the central
problem; for it links the other two together and creates their riddle. [Sri Aurobindo: Essays Divine and Human pp
285-86].
“The human mind in its progress marches from knowledge to
knowledge, or it reviews, renews, and enlarges previous Knowledge that has been
obscured and overlaid, or it seizes on old imperfect clues and is led by them
to new discoveries.”
- Maharishi
Sri Aurobindo, Pondicherry
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