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Being and Becoming and the Soul and the Psychic Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When we gaze into space at night, we see stars unimaginably
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  distant from us. We also can experience, if we
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  suspend our thinking, mind and vital desire, soul and physical
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  demands temporarily, a sense of the timeless, the immutable,
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  unchanging reality that exceeds our ability to embrace and
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  comprehend. The rishis of the Rigveda
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  referred to the ultimate reality as satyam ritam, brihat, the
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  truth, the right, the vast. It is the sense of this vast
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  reality that does not fit within our human conception of time,
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  space, or causality, that is the divine, both in the impersonal
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  sense and in a personal sense. As the ultimate being of the
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  universe, who encompasses, creates, upholds, guides,
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  directs and manifests all out of this vast, out of this timeless
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  reality, we see a power of creation, a power that acts to
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  differentiate all the forms and objects and beings and which
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  drives them all forward. This is the becoming.
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  And in the becoming we gain a sense of time, the timeless and
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  time. We see here once again, the two
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  standpoints and the different views that each of them holds of
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  the nature of reality. The divine standpoint is
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  timeless, immutable at rest, while it contains and manifests
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  all that acts and moves under the impulsion of the Divine
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  Shakti, the power of creation in the universal Becoming.
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  From another view of the creation, we can see the Being
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  as the Jivatman and the Becoming as the creatures that make up
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  the activity in the world. And we can see the soul as the
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  immutable, unchanging, timeless element that inhabits each being
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  in the creation, and the psychic being as the element that
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  matures and carries the essence of the experience into a more
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  and more perfect representation of the timeless.
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  In time, If we dip a cup into the ocean, it will quickly fill
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  with ocean water. If we leave it suspended in the
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  water, it will be full, although the actual ocean water may flow
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  in and out. The water in the cup and the
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  water in the ocean are one. The cup itself, the container,
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  is a construct to make it seem like there is a separation
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  difference, the illusion of many.
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  There is no conflict between 1:00 and many, between being and
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  becoming, between self and nature, between soul and psychic
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  being. Rather, they are simply
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  different ways of viewing and understanding the one reality.
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  When we shift to a standpoint outside our small limited ego
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  personality, we can get a sense of the timeless reality.
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  Sri Robindo notes quote what is original and eternal forever in
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  the Divine is the Being. What is developed in
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  consciousness, conditions, forces, forms, etcetera by the
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  Divine power is the becoming. The eternal Divine Is the being.
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  The universe in time, and that is apparent in it, is a
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  becoming. The eternal being in its
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  superior nature, Para prakruti is at once one and many, but the
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  eternal multiplicity of the divine when it stands behind the
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  created existences, Sorva Bhutani appears as, or as we may
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  say, becomes the Jiva para prakritir jiva Bhuta.
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  In the psychic on the other hand, there are two aspects, the
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  psychic existence or soul behind and in front the form of
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  individuality it takes in its evolution in nature End Quote
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  reference srioro bindu and the mother the psychic being soul,
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  its nature, mission and evolution Section 1 meaning and
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  nature of the psychic being page 16.