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The Supramental Force and the Quest for the Conquest of Disease, Decay and Death · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In his book autobiography of a yogi.
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  Paramahansa Yogananda describes. The ability of various yoga
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  practitioners to extend the capacities of the body far
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  beyond what we consider to be normal, including prolonging the
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  Life Span dramatically. One example, he described was of
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  Babaji a yogi who reportedly lived and acted in the world for
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  hundreds of years. This example was not an isolated
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  case, as other Yogi's have been reported to extend lifespan or
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  cure disease. SRI aurobindo related a tale
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  about his brother who at one point was desperately ill.
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  I wandering Yogi chanted mantras over a glass of water and was
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  able to cure the sick man of the fever SRI aurobindo related this
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  to remark on how he came to understand the power of yoga to
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  affect change in the world and helped shift him from his
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  political Focus to take up the spiritual direction to which he
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  dedicated the balance of his lifetime.
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  Modern science itself. Has seen remarkable
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  achievements. In terms of extending the normal
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  lifespan of humanity. Just a few hundred years ago.
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  Most people in Europe died by their 40s today.
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  The average lifespan is approximately 80 years advances
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  in understanding of the needs of the body nutrition.
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  Hygiene basic principles of managing sewage along with
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  advances in. Gene's Pharmaceuticals surgery
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  and management of diet and lifestyle all contribute to this
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  lengthening life span. Theoretically.
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  These external measures can still add numerous years to the
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  life. As the next evolutionary phase
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  becomes operational, it will provide new power and knowledge
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  to the very cells of the body to help them adjust and respond to
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  pressures and thus remain integrated and coherent as a
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  unified body that can withstand far more pressure without
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  breakdown, then we can currently bear.
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  SRI aurobindo notes, quote, the change of the Consciousness is
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  the necessary thing, and without it, there can be no physical
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  City. But the fullness of the super
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  mental change is not possible if the body remains at as it is a
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  slave of death disease, Decay pain, unconsciousness and all
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  the other results of the ignorance.
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  If these are to remain The Descent of the super mental, is
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  hardly necessary for a change of Consciousness, which would bring
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  mental, spiritual union with the Divine.
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  The overmind is sufficient. Even the higher mind is
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  sufficient. The super mental descent is
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  necessary for a dynamic action of the truth in mind, vital and
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  body. This would imply.
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  As a final result, The Disappearance of the
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  unconsciousness of the body. It would no longer be subject to
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  Decay and disease. That would mean that it would
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  not be subject to the ordinary processes by which death comes.
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  If a change of body has to be made, it would have to be by the
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  will of the inhabitant this. Not an obligation to live 3,000
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  years for that, to would be a bondage, would be the essence of
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  physical immortality. Still, if one wanted to live a
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  thousand years or more and supposing one had the complete
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  City. It should not be impossible.
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  There can be no immortality of the body.
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  Without super, mental ization. The potentiality is there in the
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  yogic force and Yogi's can live for 200 or 300 years or more,
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  but there can be no real principle of it without the
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  super mental. Even science believes that one
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  day death may be conquered by physical means and it's
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  reasonings are perfectly sound. There is no reason why.
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  The super mental Force should not do it.
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  Forms on Earth, do not last. They do another planes because
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  these forms are too rigid to grow expressing the progress of
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  the spirit. If they become plastic enough to
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  do that. There is no reason why they
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  should not last and quote reference SRI aurobindo,
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  integral yoga SRI, aurobindo stitching and method of practice
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  chapter 8, the triple transformation psychic.
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  Spiritual and super mental, the super mental transformation
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  Pages 229 to 237.