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The Fundamental Reality Hidden from Our Knowledge
And a Means by Which We can Arrive at the True Knowledge

All existence, whatever its appearance or its process of be-
ing, is and draws its substance, origin, energy, truth from
a Spirit which is the beginning, middle and end of all — it-
self being eternal, infinite, self-existent beyond end or be-
ginning, beyond Space and Time, beyond Form and Quality
and Circumstance as well as in Space and Time, in Form and
Quality and Circumstance. This is the fundamental Real-
ity which is hidden from our knowledge, the one Truth on
which all other truths depend, those that affirm it as well
as those that seem to contradict it. To be conscious of this
Reality and its right relations with the other truths or ap-
pearances of existence, to live in it and govern by its Truth
all our being, consciousness, nature, will, action would then
be the law of a perfect life. If human life is imperfect, it is
because its consciousness moves seeking, groping, experi-
menting in a fundamental ignorance of the real truth of its
own being and is therefore unable to know or to effectuate
the true law of its life. It is only if man can overcome this
ignorance and inability that he can hope to perfect his life
and nature. ... The hope that by using our reason and observ-
ing or utilising the laws of Nature we can arrive at a perfect
life here is futile, for our nature here being itself ignorant
and imperfect cannot arrive at anything better than a miti-
gated imperfection and ignorance. But if there is a means
by which we can arrive at a true knowledge of the reality
behind things and enter into its Truth and Light and Power
then there is no reason why our life here should not become
divine and perfect. It is through Yoga that this means can
be found. ... CWSA 12: 177-78 Sri Aurobindo

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