“The whole process of differentiation by the Real-Idea creative of the universe is a putting forward of principles, forces, forms which contain for the comprehending consciousness all the rest of existence within them and front the apprehending consciousness with all the rest of existence implicit behind them. Therefore, all is in each as well as each in all.”
Every seed contains within it the possibilities of the entire universe. We can see something of this in the development of the human foetus in the womb, where it successively passes through forms that appear to be akin to the stage of the frog, and the fish before differentiating the organs and form of the human being.
While the seed contains the unlimited possibilities of the All, it actually manifests a specific form in a predictable and organized way. This can be seen as the operation of the “Knowledge-Force of the Conscious-Being” which is translating the intention of the Self-Existent vision into manifested form. “All Nature is simply, then, the Seer-Will, the Knowledge-Force of the Conscious-Being at work to evolve in force and form all the inevitable truth of the Idea into which it has originally thrown itself.”
We see here both the all inclusive infinite possibility, and the specific controlled manifestation of definite forms, which is the integration of the transcendent, universal and individual aspects of the One Consciousness that is the All.
reference: Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Chapter 14, The Supermind As Creator
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