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The Supreme Power That Creates, Manifests, Sustains and Guides the Universal Creation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We go through our daily lives, busy ourselves with earning a
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  living, supporting our families, maintaining our bodies,
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  entertaining ourselves, arguing, fighting, gossiping and
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  following up on hobbies or passions we are engaged in.
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  We close ourselves into a narrow and limited existence and feel
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  content that we are doing something important or useful,
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  or at least whiling away our time between birth and death
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  with no further meaning. We may feel helplessly caught up
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  in a life we do not understand, or alternatively, we may feel
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  powerful and proud in our accomplishments in our lifetime.
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  Few are those who look beyond this round of existence to view
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  the wider universe and the potential significance of our
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  lives. In terms of that larger
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  framework, astronomers explore the vastness of outer space with
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  ever more powerful instruments. They report that we can observe
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  up to about 93 billion light years distance, but we do not
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  know the full size of the universe beyond what can be
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  observed. They report there are somewhere
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  between 200 billion and 2 trillion galaxies in the
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  universe, a wide range due to the difficulty of seeing
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  galaxies that are faintly visible to their instruments.
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  The Galaxy in which our planet resides, we call the Milky Way
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  Galaxy. It is not particularly prominent
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  in size or number of stars compared to other galaxies,
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  astronomers have observed. Astronomers estimated that there
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  are between 100 billion stars and 400 billion stars in our
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  Galaxy alone, of which our Sun is not a particularly prominent
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  star and it is stuck on a peripheral arm of the Milky Way
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  Galaxy. Nowadays, scientists are
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  speaking about other universes as they uncover more facts about
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  the nature of existence. If we reflect even briefly on
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  the magnitude of all of this creation and the orderly nature
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  of how it functions, it becomes inconceivable to think that it
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  is all about our daily struggle for existence, our enjoyments,
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  our arguments, and our little life On our little planet.
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  Whirling around a little sun in a little solar system, in a
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  little Galaxy, in an enormous universe filled with hundreds of
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  billions of galaxies and trillions of stars, ostensibly
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  having, in many cases, their own solar systems and planets, can
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  we truly say we understand the meaning of our existence?
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  It is like a single skin cell on one foot trying to comprehend
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  the complexity and size of the human body and make
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  pronouncements about the meaning of it all.
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  Could that skin cell understand that it is part of a unified
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  being of a magnitude beyond its greatest sense?
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  The mind cannot encompass or comprehend either the enormity
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  or the complexity of the universal manifestation.
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  When confronted with this, the only reasonable approach is to
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  quiet the mind and widen the consciousness to receive the
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  force embodied in all that exists and identify with that
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  force in the Rig Veda Mandala Tan Sukta 129 The hymn of
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  Creation quote. Who knows, in truth?
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  Who would tell us here below? From where was it born?
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  Whence this surging creation the gods stand below this surging
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  out abroad? Who knows then from whence this
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  took birth, that from where this creation has sprung, does that
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  even contain it or does it not? He who is the overlord in the
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  Supreme Infinity, does he even know where he too knows not?
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  End Quote. Ricks 6 and seven, translated by
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  Nolini Cantagupta. The entire creation is one
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  Supreme Being, Creator, created, container and contained.
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  We are one with the myriad of stars, galaxies and the universe
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  itself. All that we see around us, as
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  the Upanishads also point out, are one with us.
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  Thou art that, Sriorvindo writes.
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  Quote the guru to the student. Lift your eyes towards the sun.
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  He is there in that wonderful heart of life and light and
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  splendour. Watch at night the innumerable
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  constellations glittering like so many solemn.
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  Watch fires of the Eternal in the limitless silence which is
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  no void, but throbs with the presence of a single calm and
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  tremendous existence. See there, Orion, with his sword
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  and belt shining as he shown to the Aryan Fathers 10,000 years
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  ago at the beginning of the Aryan era, serious in his
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  splendor, Lyra, sailing billions of miles away in the ocean of
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  space. Remember that these innumerable
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  worlds, most of them mightier than our own, are whirling with
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  indescribable speed at the back of that ancient of Days whither
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  none but He knoweth, and yet that they are a million times
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  more ancient than your Himalaya, more steady than the roots of
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  your hills, and shall so remain until He at his will shakes them
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  off like withered leaves from the eternal tree of the
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  universe. Imagine the endlessness of time,
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  realize the boundlessness of space, and then remember that
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  when these were worlds were not, he was the same as now, and when
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  these are not, He shall be still the same.
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  Perceive that beyond Lyra he is, and far away in space, where the
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  stars of the Southern Cross cannot be seen, still he is
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  there. And then come back to the earth
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  and realize who this he is. He is quite near to you.
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  See Yonder old man who passes near you, crouching and bent
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  with his stick. Do you realize that it is God
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  who is passing there? A child runs laughing in the
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  sunlight. Can you hear Him in that
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  laughter? Nay, he is nearer still to you.
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  He is in you, He is you. It is yourself that burns
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  Yonder, millions of miles away in the infinite reaches of
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  space, that walks with confident steps on the tumbling billows of
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  the ethereal sea. It is you who have set the stars
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  in their places and woven the necklace of the Suns, not with
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  hands, but by that Yoga, that silent, actionless, impersonal
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  will which has set you here today, listening to yourself in
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  me. Look up, O child of the ancient
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  Yoga, and be no longer a trembler and a doubter.
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  Fear not, doubt not, grieve not, for in your apparent body is one
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  who can create and destroy worlds with a breath.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Powers
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  within Chapter 23, Power Supreme, pages 170 to 171.