The Omnipresent Reality, Eternal Time, Consecration, and Making Our Future
-The Omnipresent Reality is both Time and Eternity. The eternal Time exists at very moment. The whole of the  future and the whole of the past exist simultaneously. That has great relevance to us also. The past is not over. We can consecrate the past and change it even now.

-Our whole future is there in potential right now. Because the whole future is here now, we can work on it and make the future what we want it to be. (MSS)

Vision and Power of Brahman
Brahman is the sum of the upper hemisphere of Spirit and the lower hemisphere of creation -- matter, life, and mind. It is actually beyond these, in that it is their integration. To perceive this is to have the vision of Brahman (the Absolute, the Infinite).

The vision of Brahman is to perceive the Spirit and Matter as part of one single Whole. It is beyond that to see their integration.

The vision of Brahman is to see both the One and the Many; the Creator and the Creation, and their integration.

The power of Brahman is to see and bring out the Infinite from the finite.

The Vision of Brahman
To have the vision of Brahman is to see the integral relationship of spirit and matter. To see how matter expresses spirit in the details of life, to know the spirit as the Source, and beyond these. It is the ultimate reconciliation of sprit and matter; of the creator and the creation. These pairs are integrally bound up in one another, and are not dualistic, but integrally one. To perceive that truly is to have the vision of Brahman (or the integral vision of the Absolute, or the integral vision of God). It can be fully perceived this way when we move out of time, ego, Ignorance and finiteness, and moves to timelessness in time, experience the spirit being in the becoming of our daily lives, experience the timelessness in time, etc. This occurs by moving to the depths where one connects with our personal evolving soul. From their we can have the integral vision that relates these pairs, and relates the creator and the creation as one; i.e. the vision of Brahman.

Brahman Consciousness
Brahman consciousness is to know that the creation is the body of the Spiritual reality. It is to perceive the Spirit in all manner of creation. It is to perceive the unity of the One and the Many. It is to perceive the Being in the Becoming; Time Eternity in Time.

Vision of Brahman
The Reality, Brahman includes both the Pure Existent as well as the creation that will emerge out of it. To have the Brahman consciousness is to see the unity of the Pure Existent/Being/Spirit and the created universe (creation). It is the unity of the Being and the Becoming of the universe; of the world existence we know as Life.

Brahman Consciousness
Brahman consciousness is to perceive, to live, to embody the integral relationship between the unmanifest and the manifest.

Experiencing Brahman, the Absolute
Brahman (aka The Absolute, the Omnipresent Reality) is more than the sum of its parts; more than the one and the many; more than the involution and the evolution; more than what our minds can perceive. In that sense, it is indefinable. And yet, we can have a vision of It, as we move to the highest spiritual consciousness, where we see spirit of the upper hemisphere in the matter, life, and mind of the lower hemisphere of the universe. The vision of Brahman is to see these as one thing, and something even more.

When we can sense Brahman in each moment, in each thing, in each act, we sense the infinite in the finite, the timeless in time, the indefinable in the definable; enabling a new synthesis of awareness. We become a new type of being. As we rise among the planes of spiritual consciousness we approach this vision. 

Westerner has Found Brahman in Matter
Sri Aurobindo said the Westerner has discovered Brahman in Matter. [MSS, slightly modified.] [not in the other planes, which remains unfulfilled.]

Process of Creation (Involution and Evolution)
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Extended Article Describing the Theory of Creation (Involution and Evolution)

Creation is Knowable

The knowledge of the creation, i.e. how the cosmos, the universe came about is known. It is not unknowable, as the religious traditions state.

Involution and Evolution
The process of the Absolute manifesting is called the Involution. The process where existence on earth moves toward uniting back toward its Divine Origins through matter, the vital life, and mind, and then Spirit is called the Evolution.

The Processes of Involution and Evolution

The involution is the process by which the Absolute manifest the creation, the universe. It is the process by which the Many emerged from the One as a universe of divided, ignorant forms. The involution is that which occurred that enabled the creation, the universe, the cosmos to manifest from out of the Original Principle, the Divine, God, the Absolute. Involution is the process of self-limitation, of densification, by which the Absolute, Brahman veils itself by stages until it assumes the appearance in the cosmos, the universe we know of. It wishes to create the universe to objectify itself and its spiritual properties in infinite possibilities, for the purpose of delight of discovery which it will achieve thereafter.

The evolution is the movement forward by which the created universe evolves from its initial state of divided, ignorant forms, emerges as Life and Mind, and in that process rediscovers its Source. The evolution occurs after the involution. It is the development and progressive movement of all in the cosmos, including humans, to attain its fulfillment, including rediscovery in delight of the spiritual aspect, that Consciousness-Force that was the source of the creation. The evolution is the progressive development from the first inconscience in matter into life (movement, sensation, etc. and living physical beings), to mind (in conscious being, animals, including the human, the self-conscious thinking animal), to spiritualized mind, culminating in Supermind, Truth Consciousness (as supramental individuals, leading to a supramental, i.e. a divine life on earth.)

The Cosmic Process of Creation
At the cosmic level the process of creation is the means by which the infinite, unmanifest and eternal spirit creates out of itself a finite, temporal material universe. An Infinite Being and Consciousness, all-knowing and all-powerful, creates, by itself becoming, a world peopled with apparently inanimate, inconscient objects and unconscious or semi-conscious, mortal creatures. Because that Infinite Reality is the origin, basis and real constitution of everything in the universe, the smallest infinitesimal act of the least significant individual in the most limiting circumstances imaginable is capable of revealing and unleashing the greatest opportunity resulting in the highest accomplishment. Often that infinite potential reveals in apparently chance events such as the first meeting of two strangers under the least expected conditions or the casual communication of a small but significant and life-changing information.

All creation, all accomplishment originates as an act of consciousness and an organization of that consciousness leading to the formation of a result. Sri Aurobindo describes this process of creation at the cosmic level in The Life Divine. (MSS)

The Process of Creation, Involution, and Evolution
On the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin, people are trying to reconcile his ideas with the spirit. So far, all parties -- secular and scientific, and religious -- seem far away from understanding the true nature of evolution. Evolution takes place for any entity when it organizes itself at a higher level.