origin of matter. But all that is not a process answering to the evolution in
the inverse sense – for there is no need for that, but a gradation of consciousness which is intended to make the evolution upwards possible.Sri Aurobindo
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Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
September 27, 1935
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The involution is of the Divine in the Inconscience and it is done by the interposition of intermediate planes (Overmind etc., mind, vital) – then the plunge into the Inconscient which is the origin of matter. But all that is not a process answering to the evolution in the inverse sense – for there is no need for that, but a gradation of consciousness which is intended to make the evolution upwards possible.
1 Nirodbaran. Correspondence.- Volume 1: evolution but in
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