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The Triple Aspects of the Divine Presence · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In order to carry out the complex creation, the Supreme
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  Divine Consciousness has distributed the awareness
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  through a series of steps. The first step is the
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  development of the Jivatman, the Divine presence that does not
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  involve itself directly in the individual beings of the
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  manifestation, but acts as the first differentiation of the
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  unity into the multiplicity. The second step is the
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  transmission of a portion of the divine awareness into each
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  being, which we call the soul. The soul is of the same nature
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  as the Jeevatman, but now introduced into each creature.
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  The soul does not itself undergo changes but develops the psychic
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  being, which maintains the divine nature but undergoes
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  development, growth and maturation as it gathers the
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  essence of experience across innumerable lives, Srioro Bindo
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  observes quote the Jeevatman spark.
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  Soul and psychic being are three different forms of the same
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  reality and they must not be mixed up together as that
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  confuses the clearness of the inner experience.
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  The Jeevatman or spirit as it is usually called in English, is
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  self existent above the manifested or instrumental
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  being. It is superior to birth and
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  death, always the same, the individual self or Atman.
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  It is the eternal true being of the individual.
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  End Quote. Reference.
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  Srioro Bindu and the Mother. The psychic being, Soul, its
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  nature, mission and evolution. Section 1.
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  Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being, pages 18 to 19.