The Quest Of Reality And The Earthly Destiny: Sri Aurobindo's Ideology

The evolution from the empirical aspect has taken place primarily within matter, i.e., to the physical senses on which science bases itself, life appears as gradually emerging out of unconscious matter through a purely mechanical process. But on another side, mostly from the vision of the non-scientific traditions, the world has the appearance of an over mental creation rooted irretrievably in ignorance and suffering. Here, the quest of reality is still to be satisfied because of the above mentioned conflict theories. In Sri Aurobindo's ideology on evolution has a synthesis of both theories which appear as partial truths. For Him, the former describes the manifestation of the material universe out of consciousness but misses out on the dynamic link between the divine consciousness and the manifestation. The latter describes the outer mechanism of the evolution, but misses out on its inner meaning and the role of consciousness in the whole process. The two views cover a different aspect of the picture. As such they do not contradict but enrich and complement each other. Aurobindo adds to this synthesis of these two theories and furnishing the different planes of consciousness, for the possibility for achieving the earthly destiny, which he calls as the manifestation of the highest forms of Supramental consciousness.