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Thoughts
and Aphorisms 32
32. The Atheist is God
playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other ? Well,
perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
[Sri Aurobindo: Thoughts and
Aphorisms]
The Atheist thinks that there is no God, as he,
being limited to his senses in his thinking and feeling, does not find Him
anywhere or has no contact with Him.
As Sri Aurobindo says, God is
playing hide and seek Himself – as and when He is playing hide and seek with
the Atheist. In the highest sense of Truth, God is One and All is God – all
individual beings are God Himself in their highest consciousness. The human
beings are, in Truth and Reality, God Himself, in their deepest and highest
consciousness. In the Upanishadic thought, God says : “Eko”. I am alone and will be many. So He became
many. That is His Leela, His play.
Divine himself is the Atheist —
in the deepest depth of the Atheist, the Divine exists. So He is playing hide
and seek with Himself. A time will definitely come in the life of the Atheist,
when he will realize the Divine and find that he himself is the Divine. And he
will no more remain an Atheist. The Mother has said : “And yet a day will come,
when he will be brought face to face with himself and will be obliged to
recognirecognise that he exists.”
The Theist is one who thinks
and believes that God is there. Mentally, he has seen the shadow of God and
thinks and believes that the God is there, as the Creator of the universe and
of the Theist himself.
According to Sri Aurobindo, the
Theist has not crossed the limit of his mental consciousness and has not
realized the Divine – The Divine is in all things and all individual beings.
The Theist clings to the shadow of God and does not go beyond.
When the individual being
realizes the Divine, there is no Atheist and Theist in his Vision – He realizes
: “Aham brahm
Barindranath Chaki
Written on 28.08.2012
Published on 3-09-2012
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