Sri Aurobindo
Karmayogin
Political Writings and Speeches - 1909-1910
Karmayogin: A Weekly Review
Saturday 17th July 1909 — No.4
Facts and Opinions
God and His Universe
The Bengalee takes as its fundamental position that God is Absolute, Eternal and Universal in all movements and not limited to any particular.
Very true, but a vague statement of abstract truth like this leads nowhere beyond itself.
What are the concrete implications in this generalisation?
God is not only the Absolute, Eternal and Universal in His own essence, but He manifests in the relative, transient and particular.
The Absolute is an aspect of Him necessary for philosophical completeness; but if He were only Absolute, then this phenomenal world would be only Maya, God akarta and all action purely illusory.
If He were only Eternal we might regard this world as something not full of Him, but a separate creation which may or may not be subject to His immediate action.
It is because He is the Universal that the clarified vision sees Him in every being and every activity.
As the Absolute He stands behind every relative, as the Eternal He supports every transient and assures the permanence of the sum of phenomena; as the Universal He manifests Himself in every particular.