RESEARCH IN BRIEF
“All Nature and all life will be to him (a seeker of Truth) at once a revelation and a fine trysting-place. Intellectual and aesthetic and dynamic activities, science and philosophy and life, thought and art and action will assume for him a diviner sanction and a greater meaning. He will seek them because of his clear sight of the Divine through them and because of the delight of the Divine in them. He will not be indeed attached to their appearances, for attachment is an obstacle to the Ananda; but because he possesses that pure, powerful and perfect Ananda which obtains everything but is dependent on nothing, and because he finds in them the ways and acts and signs, the becomings and the symbols and images of the Beloved, he draws from them a rapture which the normal mind that pursues them for themselves cannot attain or even dream. All this and more becomes part of the integral way and its consummation.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-591
Research of the Modern Science is related with discovering the mystery of material world and uncovering the fragments of Omnipotence and Omniscience that lie hidden in the Matter. Spiritual Science uncovers the mystery behind the material world, the knowledge on the intermediate subtle body, causal body and the highest plane, the source of material and intermediate existence, the supreme Turiya state. Like the objective discoveries of modern science all the knowledge of Spiritual science are verifiable and a field of uncovering of endless truth endlessly without any limit to these subjective discoveries.
Integral Yoga proposes that the greatest unity of all Science, all Religion, all Philosophy, and all Tradition are possible through a most conscious individual when he is perfectly capable of every kind of Material Pursuit and Spiritual experience, embraces the whole universe in his cosmic Consciousness and possesses the highest Integral Knowledge. And he calls down the ultimate Divine Truth and absolute Delight to elevate the things and creatures to their highest, profoundest and the widest Divine manifestation.
Modern Science⁶⁰ represents a vast system of physical magic through utilisation of secret truths of being and secret power and processes of Nature and it cannot rest content with the barriers of sense knowledge. Integral Yoga is restated as integral (Scientific) Evolution which further provides this input that success and completion of physical knowledge of Science can be arrived at in its range of inquiry by discovery of what lies behind in the Subliminal Self and beyond in the Superconscient Self because behind the process of physical Nature there is a vast inner kingdom of subtle physical, subtle vital and subtle mental fact which can be accessed through Subliminal and Spiritual vision and entry into the Occult movement of the Divine Force. So, all innovation and new invention of Science draw their resources from ‘secret Supermind’s huge store.’⁵⁴ Integral Yoga recognises intelligence as the mother of modern Science which is an unconscious wandering and search for truth within Matter and rejects its materialist doctrine that Nature is all and the Soul is an illusion. It further rejects the inability of Modern Science to accept (hierarchy of) Consciousness as mother of intelligence and the inability to recognise a subtle world behind this gross material world. Science seems to give the impression that this material world has created man but the Spiritual view of existence is that man must create himself and the world.⁹ Integral Yoga can start with purified intellect, profounder understanding, scientific inquiry, organised invention of Spiritual truth, practical analysis, complex observation, repeat the invasion of Spiritual energy like chemistry experiment⁵⁸ and can liberate man from the yoke of increased mechanisation, rigid standardisation, effective manipulations and imperfect mental control to a life of infinitely plastic harmonious principle, free automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable execution of truth of idea, action and creation.
Om Tat Sat
References are available in the book ‘The Mother’s Manifestation' (page-37).
"Yet even in the earthward life a higher knowledge is indeed the one thing that is throughout needful, and without it the lower sciences and pursuits, however fruitful, however rich, free, miraculous in the abundance of their results, become easily a sacrifice offered without due order and to false gods; corrupting, hardening in the end the heart of man, limiting his mind’s horizons, they confine in a stony material imprisonment or lead to a final baffling incertitude and disillusionment."
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-141
"It is for this reason that Divine Love which is at the heart of all creation and the most powerful of all redeeming and creative forces has yet been the least frontally present in earthly life, the least successfully redemptive, the least creative. Human nature has been unable to bear it in its purity for the very reason that it is the most powerful, pure, rare and intense of all the divine energies; what little could be seized has been corrupted at once into a vital pietistic ardour, a defenceless religious or ethical sentimentalism, a sensuous or even sensual erotic mysticism of the roseate coloured mind or passionately turbid life-impulse and with these simulations compensated its inability to house the Mystic Flame that could rebuild the world with its tongues of sacrifice. "
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-167
All objective research in the field of modern Science, Arts, Literature, Technology, Commerce and Economics can be reinforced by entry into subjective Research of the Soul, by discovering tenfold Selves and their interpenetration into tenfold Sheaths. We have to reconcile the full account of one-tenth ‘potent though limited revelations of modern knowledge and seeking’ with nine-tenth unlimited subjective Spiritual wisdom by constantly updating, renovating, renewing and regenerating the existing wisdom from tenfold Selves. (Ref: CWSA-19/Essays on the Gita/p-10)