Abstract

Sri Aurobindo is a yogi of a very high plane of consciousness. His works like Savitri, The Life Divine, Letters on Poetry, Literature and Art etc. reveal that he is the Soul who has descended from the unknown eternal heights. It is from these eternal heights that he has discovered the existence of the plane of the Subtle Matter. In his epic Savitri which he has written from the plane of, to use his terminology, Supramental Consciousness, he portrays a vivid and very beautiful picture of the ‘kingdom’ of this Subtle Matter. He says that this kingdom is the ‘shining origin’ of the world of gross Matter. Further, Albert Einstein, the most celebrated scientist of all times, on the summit of the scientific consciousness, has discovered the existence of the four-dimensional plane, and established its truth in his Special Theory of Relativity. While doing so, he reveals that the four-dimensional plane of existence is responsible for the existence of the three-dimensional world, the world of gross Matter as the latter is the projection of the former. In other words, the four-dimensional plane of existence has given birth to the three-dimensional plane of existence. In fact, Einstein could erect only the mathematical structure of the four-dimensional plane of existence. Such a structure is accepted in the scientific world. Its concrete physical existence has not yet come into the vision of matter-oriented human mind. The present paper aims to explore whether Einstein’s four-dimensional plane of existence finally evolves into the world of the Subtle Matter, the existence of which, as noted earlier, has come into the vision of Sri Aurobindo. It aims also to find out whether a meditative state of mind is able to visualize Einstein’s four-dimensional plane of existence.

Key words: Subtle matter, four-dimensional plane of existence, Kingdom of Subtle Matter.