... escapes the grasp of our thought and speech, instruments which proceed always by the sense of difference and express by the way of definition." However, "It is attainable by a supreme effort of consciounsess."2The Absolute, though unknowable in certain sense, does not remain unknowable because "fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within his power of humanity."3 Here we find that agnosticism is not a prominent one of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy. Man is not left over with a pessimistic religious quest and never satisfiable thirst. The unknowable who is to us "supreme, wonderful and ineffable", seems to formulate "Itself to our consciousness" and who "continually escapes from the formulation It has made". This much he does not as a "malicious spirit or freakish magician leading us to greater falsehood,"4 but only as "the Wise beyond our wisdom guiding us from reality to ever profounder and vaster reality until... the profoundest and vastest ...

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