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The Human Consciousness Cannot Comprehend Fully the Vastness of the Universal Creation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We spend little time or thought on the place we occupy in the
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  universal creation. The larger forces at work, the
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  consciousness that creates, builds, shapes and directs this
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  massive and complex undertaking, remain hidden from us.
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  The power we can consciously receive and utilize is a minute
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  amount of the total energy moving around the universe all
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  the time. It has been estimated that less
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  than .3% of the Sun's energy output actually reaches the
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  Earth, and that of this about 50% is absorbed, the rest
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  reflected back into space. This still represents more than
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  10,000 times the actual energy usage of the entire world.
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  We cannot even easily imagine the magnitude of the forces at
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  work, not just those radiating from the sun, in terms of our
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  human lives and experience. And this is without factoring in
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  the endless billions of stars, solar systems, galaxies and
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  universes beyond our own little part of the creation.
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  How can we be expected from our human standpoint, to understand
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  the vastness, power, scope, intensity, or purpose of this
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  massive flow of energy and the manifestation that flows from
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  this action? How can we be expected from our
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  human standpoint, to comprehend the significance and meaning
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  even of our own lives within this enormous activity?
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  It would take a significant shift of standpoint and a
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  widening of our understanding to even come close to an
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  appreciation of why we are here, what we are to do, and how we
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  are to play our role within the entirety of the Universal
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  Manifestation, Sri Aurobindo writes in his epic poem Savitri.
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  A legend and a symbol Quote Unseen here act dim.
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  Huge world energies and only trickles and currents are our
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  share. Our mind lives far off from the
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  authentic light catching it little fragments of the truth in
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  a small corner of Infinity. Our lives are inlets of an
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  Ocean's force. End Quote.
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  Savitri, Book two Canto 5 reference Sri Orobindo and the
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  Mother, The Hidden Forces of life, Chapter 8 Life a Mass of
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  Vibrations, page 176.