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Understanding the Relationship of Various Parts and Planes of the Being to Our Current External Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  SRI aurobindo frequently describes going inward to
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  discover, the deepest inner being the psychic being or Soul
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  as one way to come into contact with the truth of one's
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  existence, and unify ones being with the divine.
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  This is a way to overcome the artificial Wall of Separation
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  that we set up that treats the Divine as something other than
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  who or what we are. Essentially recognizing the
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  inherent Oneness of the entire creation, rather than accepting
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  the illusion of Duality. The other major way to achieve
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  this recognition of Oneness, is to shift the standpoint upwards
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  to planes that are beyond the mental level.
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  Evil either way, the individual is shifting a standpoint away
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  from the external surface personality and the ego
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  Consciousness to a position that is 1 and unified with the Divine
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  manifestation. There are a number of gradations
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  of Consciousness, manifested above, the mental level,
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  including stages, the tree aurobindo defines us higher
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  mind, illumine mind, intuition, overmind, super mind, and such
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  you to Ananda. The action of Consciousness at
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  each of these successively higher stages, brings forth
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  powers of knowledge, understanding and action that
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  far exceed our current mental level of development.
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  Dr. Dalal writes, quote from the Viewpoint of Sri aurobindo start
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  the human being is inseparable E1 with the universal being
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  there. Are he says to system
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  simultaneously active in the organization of the being and
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  its parts. A concentric system and a
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  vertical system. The concentric system is like a
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  series of Rings or sheaths consisting of the outer being
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  the inner being and the inmost being The outer being and the
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  inner being behind it. Constitute, our phenomenal or
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  instrumental being and are said to belong to Nature or prakruti.
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  They have three corresponding parts, physical vital mental.
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  The in most is the purusa, the true being in the purusa.
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  There is an in most mental and in most vital and an in most
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  physical and at the very core, the psychic being or soul, The
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  psychic being is usually referred to as the inmost being.
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  The vertical system is like a staircase.
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  Consisting of various levels. Planes are gradations of
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  Consciousness ranging from the lowest the incomes Ian to the
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  highest such G Thailand. Note ancient Indian wisdom,
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  divided the human being the microcosm, as well as the world
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  being the macrocosm into a higher hemisphere per our data
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  and a lower hemisphere. A pirata the higher hemisphere
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  is where the spirit Reigns perfectly and eternally in the
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  lower hemisphere. The spirit is veiled by mind,
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  life and body. Over mind is the intermediary.
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  Plane dividing the two hemispheres.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother are many
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  shelves, practical, yogic psychology introduction.
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  SRI aurobindo on our many selves planes and parts of the being
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  Pages. Roman 19 to Roman 21.