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The Soul’s Connection to the Divine and Its Role in the Divine Manifestation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Many spiritual practitioners have realized that the external
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  life we customarily lead is a life of illusion and that it is
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  based in a flawed view of reality.
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  This does not mean that our life, existence and action has
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  no real significance, rather that the way we define our lives
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  based on the external focus of the body, life, mind complex is
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  simply inaccurate and leads us to draw incomplete and
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  inaccurate conclusions. Some of the spiritual paths use
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  this starting point of the illusory nature of the world to
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  suggest that we abandoned that world and take up a sole focus
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  on the realization of our spiritual reality and truth of
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  existence. They in effect ask those who
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  heed the call of the Spirit to deny the outer life's demands,
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  minimize their needs, and spend time in focus on that deeper
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  truth and reality of our existence.
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  Other spiritual paths, however, recognize that the Spirit is not
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  divorced from the external world of matter, life, and mind, and
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  that we must therefore find a way to integrate our spiritual
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  purpose with our external lives. This is only possible because
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  there is Oneness that, while hidden in the background during
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  the development and growth of the material vital and mental
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  principles of the Manifestation, still remains a reality.
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  This Oneness remains known and intact through the medium of the
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  soul and the growth of the psychic being or soul presence.
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  As the evolution of consciousness proceeds, the role
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  of the soul is to develop the external being and preparing it
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  for a direct and complete expression of the Divine truth
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  of existence. This process is one that takes
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  place over time as a growth and maturation process and as the
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  body, life, mind complex becomes ready to express the light,
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  power and Ananda of the Divine. The soul also continues to gain
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  in maturity, power of action and ability to express its focus
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  through those instruments of the outer nature, Sri Aurobindo
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  notes Quote The psychic part of us is something that comes
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  direct from the divine and is in touch with the divine in its
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  origin. It is the nucleus, pregnant with
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  divine possibilities, that supports this lower triple
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  manifestation of mind, life and body.
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  There is this divine element in all living beings, but it stands
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  hidden behind the ordinary. Consciousness is not at first
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  developed, and even when developed is not always or often
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  in the front. It expresses itself so far as
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  the imperfection of the instruments allows.
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  By their means and under their limitations, it grows in the
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  consciousness by God word experience, gaining strength
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  every time there is a higher movement in US.
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  And finally, by the accumulation of these deeper and higher
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  movements, there has developed a psychic individuality, that
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  which we usually call the psychic being.
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  It is always this psychic being that is the real, though often
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  the secret, cause of man's turning to the spiritual life
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  and his greatest help in it. It is therefore that which we
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  have to bring from behind to the front in the Yoga end.
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  Quote Reference Sri Arobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of
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  Life, Chapter 2, Hidden Forces within pages 49 to 50.