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Rhythm in the Nature

For each activity, each realisation, each movement, there is a
definite period of time, which differs. There are countless peri-
ods of time which are entangled; but each thing is regulated by
a kind of rhythm which is this thing’s own rhythm.
You see, for the facility of their outer existence, men have
divided time more or less arbitrarily into years, months, weeks,
days, hours, minutes, seconds, etc.; it is a rhythm that’s more
or less arbitrary, because it has been created by man, but it
has in itself a certain reality, for it corresponds to universal
movements... as far as possible. And that is why, by the way,
we celebrate the birthday, for example: because there is a cer-
tain rhythm in each one’s existence which is established by this
regular return of circumstances analogous to those in which
he was born.
And all movements — when you observe them, you become
aware that they have a certain rhythm. . .
And all this, each thing having its own rhythm, well, it
makes an extremely complicated crisscrossing of rhythms,
which results in what we see: something which seems to have
none — because it is too complicated, it is too complex.
CWM 7: 332-333 The Mother

There is a rhythm in everything unheard by the physical ear
and by that rhythm things exist.
CWSA 30: 283 Sri Aurobindo

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