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<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/17/evolution#p8,p11</ref>
It is a series of ascents from the physical being and consciousness to the vital, the being dominated by the life-self, thence to the mental being realised in the fully developed man and thence into the perfect consciousness which is beyond the mental, into the Supramental consciousness and the Supramental being, the Truth-Consciousness which is the integral consciousness of the spiritual being. Mind cannot be our last conscious expression because mind is fundamentally[p.396] an ignorance seeking for knowledge; it is only the Supramental Truth-Consciousness that can bring us the true and whole Self Knowledge and world-Knowledge; it is through that only that we can get to our true being and the fulfilment of our spiritual evolution.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/a-realistic-adwaita#p18</ref>
==Existence==
The higher Trinity [Sachchidananda] is the source and basis of all existence and play of existence, and all cosmos must be an expression and[p.279] action of its essential reality. No universe can be merely a form of being which has sprung up and outlined itself in an absolute nullity and void and remains standing out against a non-existent emptiness. It must be either a figure of existence within the infinite Existence who is beyond all figure or it must be itself the All-Existence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-sevenfold-chord-of-being#p11</ref>
Existence that acts and creates by the power and from the pure delight of its conscious being is the reality that we are, the self of all our modes and moods, the cause, object and goal of all our doing, becoming and creating. As the poet, artist or musician when he creates does really nothing but develop some potentiality in his unmanifested self into a form of manifestation and as the thinker, statesman, mechanist only bring out into a shape of things that which lay hidden in themselves, was themselves, is still themselves when it is cast into form, so is it with the world and the Eternal.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-divine-maya#p1</ref>
Experiences are of all kinds and take all forms in the consciousness. When the consciousness undergoes, sees or feels anything spiritual or psychic or even occult, that is an experience. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/experiences-and-realisations#p12</ref>
Each inner experience is perfectly real in its own way, although the values of different experiences differ greatly, but it is real with the reality of the inner self and the inner planes. It is a mistake to think that we live physically only, with the outer mind and life. We are all the time living and acting on other planes of consciousness, meeting others there and acting upon them, and what we do and feel and think there, the forces we gather, the results we prepare have an incalculable importance and effect, unknown to us, upon our outer life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/experiences-of-the-inner-and-the-cosmic-consciousness-i#p5</ref>
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