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Consciousness Pervades All Forms, Beings and Entities in the Universal Creation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In his play Hamlet, William Shakespeare comments on the
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  limitations of the objective mind and its ability to
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  understand existence. There are more things in heaven
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  and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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  Our mind's view of the existence of the universe and its
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  significance is blinded by our reliance on what we can observe
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  with our senses and our ability to correctly organize and
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  interpret what we perceive. We thus believe that the
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  universe is some vast mechanical location, and while material
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  energies are at work, it is a vacant Dead Space without any
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  essential meaning other than as the backdrop of our own lives on
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  a minor planet in a minor solar system, in a minor arm of a
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  minor Galaxy in one corner of the vast universe.
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  Some modern thinkers have alternatively likened the
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  universe to a type of hologram within which we play act our
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  existence. In the Bhagwad Gita, Sri Krishna
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  describes for Arjuna the action of the time spirit.
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  It is clear from his statement that there is a pervasive,
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  active consciousness in the universe that creates, guides,
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  controls, and develops the rolling out of the
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  manifestation. It is our limitation of
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  perception and understanding that prevents us from
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  experiencing and interacting with the consciousness
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  throughout all forms, beings, entities, and indeed the entire
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  universe in its own right. In the Titeria Upanishad, there
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  is a fascinating passage that recounts levels of conscious
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  awareness above that of the human mind as it describes the
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  measure of bliss of each successively more refined
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  conscious being. We term these beings with higher
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  levels of conscious awareness, angelic beings, gods, demigods
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  or creators. The Rigveda in Mandala 10, Sukta
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  129 briefly describes the levels of consciousness and their
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  respective role in the creation. There were castors of the seed,
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  there were greatnesses, there was self law below, there was
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  will above. A disciple asks is time only
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  subjective or it is something concrete like a personality?
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  The mother writes, quote all forces are personal.
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  All things in nature are personal.
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  But if we consider them as impersonal things, our relation
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  with them is impersonal. Take for instance what has just
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  happened. If you are a meteorologist and
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  have calculated all the wind currents and all that and say,
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  given that this has happened, that will happen and there will
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  be so many days of rain and all that.
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  So this is a force for you which we are compelled to call a force
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  of nature. And you can do nothing about it
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  except look on quietly and wait for the number of days to pass.
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  But if it happens that you have this personal relation with the
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  little conscious entities which are behind the wind, behind the
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  storm, behind the rain, the Thunder, behind all these
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  so-called forces of nature, which are forces and personal
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  forces. If you have a personal relation
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  with them and can create a kind of friendship through this
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  relation, instead of considering them as enemies and inexorable
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  mechanisms which you have to put up with without being able to do
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  anything, perhaps you could manage to establish a slightly
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  more friendly relation and have an influence over them and ask
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  them why do you feel like blowing and making the rainfall,
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  Why don't you do it elsewhere? And with my own eyes I have
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  seen, I have seen this here, seen it in France, seen it in
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  Algeria, the rain falling at a particular altogether fixed
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  place. And it was actually exactly a
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  place where it absolutely needed to rain, because it was dry and
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  there was a field which needed watering.
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  And at another place there was at a distance from here to the
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  end of the hall. At the other place there was a
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  small sunlit spot. Everything was dry because to
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  have the sun there was necessary.
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  Naturally, if you seek the scientific point of view, they
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  will explain this to you very scientifically.
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  But I indeed have seen it as a result of an intervention,
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  someone who knew how to ask it and obtained it.
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  In Algeria I saw not a few things like that, very
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  interesting ones. And there just because there was
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  a certain atmosphere of a little more real knowledge, it could be
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  said there were little entities As for example entities which
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  handled snow, you see, which produce snow and which could
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  come enter a room and tell someone now snow should fall
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  here. It had never snowed in that
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  country, never snow. You are joking.
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  So near the Sahara it is going to snow.
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  It must because they have planted fir trees on the
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  mountain. And when we see fir trees, we
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  come. The fir trees are there to call
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  us, so we come. And so you see there was a
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  discussion and the little being went away with the permission to
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  bring snow. And when it had gone, there was
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  a little pool of snow water on the floor, melted snow which had
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  turned into water. It was physical and the mountain
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  was covered with snow. In Algeria, it is very near to
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  Sahara. You go down a few kilometers and
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  you are at the Sahara. Someone had playfully covered
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  all the hills with fir trees. The fir trees belong to cold
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  countries. Why do you call on us?
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  We are coming All This is a true story.
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  It is not an invention. All depends on your relation.
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  This too it is quite possible. The meteorologist scholars would
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  have been able to explain. I know nothing about it.
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  They explain everything one wants.
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  End Quote Reference Shriorobindu and the Mother, The Hidden
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  Forces of Life, Chapter 4, Cosmic and Universal Forces,
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  pages 84 to 86.