The Human Consciousness Cannot Comprehend Fully the Vastness of the Universal Creation
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0:01 We spend little time or thought on the place we occupy in the universal creation. The larger forces at work, the consciousness that creates, builds, shapes and directs this massive and complex undertaking, remain hidden from us. The power we can consciously receive and utilize is a minute amount of the total energy moving around the universe all the time. It has been estimated that less than .3% of the Sun's energy output actually reaches the Earth, and that of this about 50% is absorbed, the rest reflected back into space. This still represents more than 10,000 times the actual energy usage of the entire world.
0:54 We cannot even easily imagine the magnitude of the forces at work, not just those radiating from the sun, in terms of our human lives and experience. And this is without factoring in the endless billions of stars, solar systems, galaxies and universes beyond our own little part of the creation. How can we be expected from our human standpoint, to understand the vastness, power, scope, intensity, or purpose of this massive flow of energy and the manifestation that flows from this action? How can we be expected from our human standpoint, to comprehend the significance and meaning even of our own lives within this enormous activity?
1:49 It would take a significant shift of standpoint and a widening of our understanding to even come close to an appreciation of why we are here, what we are to do, and how we are to play our role within the entirety of the Universal Manifestation, Sri Aurobindo writes in his epic poem Savitri. A legend and a symbol Quote Unseen here act dim. Huge world energies and only trickles and currents are our share. Our mind lives far off from the authentic light catching it little fragments of the truth in a small corner of Infinity. Our lives are inlets of an Ocean's force. End Quote.
2:39 Savitri, Book two Canto 5 reference Sri Orobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of life, Chapter 8 Life a Mass of Vibrations, page 176.