Page 41 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

Once then we have found that so far as mystical con-sciousness is concerned its set of vales do not reject space or Time or the Akasa which is the plenum (Matter in one of its primal forms - bhutas, which plays a very important role in the yoga psychology as the abode and indeed itself nada - sound in all its fourfold forms of para, pasyanti, madhyama and vaikhari) - but utilizes these conditions and processes for the manifestation of the Divine Excellences (lila) (or possibilities).
The unreality of these is not the condition for this liberty of spiritual askesis, spiritual discovery of values, spiritual realisation and evolution; on the other hand, we are made aware of the implicit sets of processes that every state of devotion, knowledge, and action implies.
Thus when it is said that the primary secret of spiritual life consists in the will to practice dependence on the Highest alone and none other, and not what many think a will to defy every condition including the deity - one of the greatest truths of eternal life has been uttered.
Time, said Sri Aurobindo, is one of the factors in the ascent of spiritual life: (Synthesis of Yoga). This is because the pace and the time of fulfilment or ripeness for the opening of the inner life are not governed by the individual's consciousness at all but by the Grace of the Divine. This is the view of all those who have been treading the path and though the elapse of time may be slow according to the individual's reckoning.
Recently I reviewed a journal entitled "The Wind and the Rain" in which there was an article entitled "The Indian Time-Table", by Mr. Willy Haas.* I shall mention the general thesis of that author. The Indian Timetable is not like the European Timetable which is again different from the American Timetable. He holds that the European Timetable or the conception of History is the continuous stream of life, which has gathered all the rich heredity and culture of the past and is proceeding towards the future. Thus the present is a consequence of the past, a child of the past, conserving the traditions and heredity of the same, The American New World Time is a free movement unconditioned by the ancient history of Europe and its cultural and racial movements, starting a new epoch, save to the extent that the early settlers had carried with them and what the new settlers are carrying with them into that country. But the general movement is to