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Everything is already realised by It as the Lord before it can be
accomplished by the separated Personalities in the movement.
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What then is Its intention in the movement?
The movement is a rhythm, a harmony which That, as the Uni-
versal Life, works out by figures of Itself in the terms of conscious
Being. It is a formula symbolically expressive of the Unknowable,
— so arranged that every level of consciousness really repre-
sents something beyond itself, depth of depth, continent of
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continent. It is a play of the divine Consciousness existing for
its own satisfaction and adding nothing to That, which is al-
ready complete. It is a fact of conscious being, justified by its
own existence, with no purpose ulterior to itself. The idea of
purpose, of a goal is born of the progressive self-unfolding by
the world of its own true nature to the individual Souls inhabit-
ing its forms; for the Being is gradually self-revealed within its
own becomings, real Unity emerges out of the Multiplicity and
changes entirely the values of the latter to our consciousness.
This self-unfolding is governed by conditions determined
by the complexity of consciousness in its cosmic action.
For consciousness is not simple or homogeneous, it is sep-
tuple. That is to say, it constitutes itself into seven forms or
grades of conscious activity descending from pure Being to
physical being. Their interplay creates the worlds, determines
all activities, constitutes all becomings.
CWSA 17: 26-27 Sri Aurobindo

3. This is the Vaishnava image of the Lila applied usually to the play of the
Personal Deity in the world, but equally applicable to the active impersonal
Brahman.

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