Sri Aurobindo's principal philosophical work, articulating the metaphysics of consciousness-as-substance, involution and evolution, and the nature of Sat-Chit-Ananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss).
Key passages cited in this vault:
- "Unless mind was inherent in brute Matter" — intelligence cannot arise from matter void of it. (Ch: "Nature")
- "spirit secret even in things" — matter is not void of consciousness.
- "intelligence there, asleep, involved, latent" — intelligence awaiting conditions for emergence. (Ch: "Man and the Supermind")
- "anterior to evolution" — a part remains aware below the surface mind. (Ch: "Nature")
- "one thing-in-itself seen diversely" — Sat-Chit-Ananda as a single reality. (Ch: "Sachchidananda")
- "self-aware and therefore all-aware" — consciousness as inherently self-knowing.