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===Delight===
Delight is [[Sri Aurobindo]]'s term for [[ananda]], and plays a large part in his [[Esoteric cosmology|cosmology]] and [[Spirituality|spiritual]] teaching. Delight is the reason for creation, by which [[Absolute (philosophy)|The Absolute]] extends its Delight of Being into multiplicity, losing itself in the [[Unconscious mind|unconscious]] and then through Delight rediscovering Itself through individuals realising their Divine nature and proceeding to spiritual realisation.

In other words, the universe was created so that the Delight of the Infinite Spirit can manifest in all the forms of creation. When we discover our higher nature, the [[Psychic Being|soul]] and spirit, we experience the delight for which we were came into being and of which we are a part.

In chapters 11 and 12 of ''[[The Life Divine]]'', Sri Aurobindo writes at length on the nature of Delight as a principle of the Divine, and its role in creation.