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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.
        ...
            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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