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The Maturation of the Soul Across Lifetimes in Fulfillment of Its Evolutionary Role · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There is a considerable amount of time amounting to innumerable
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  lifetimes when the spark of the soul.
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  The psychic being is subordinated hidden virtually
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  unseen and unheard in the external life.
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  During that time frame and that sequence of births, the
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  individual has no recognition of the existence of the soul.
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  May indicate that there is no purpose or significance to life.
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  And that without any purpose life, simply randomly came into
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  being and developed what he sees around him.
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  At the end of the lifetime, everything is gone.
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  Once an individual begins to experience the prodding of the
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  soul, the inner aspiration and begins to recognize that.
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  There is indeed a larger purpose to the universal manifestation
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  and his own role in it. He may take one of several
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  stances. In the Life Divine SRI,
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  aurobindo outlines the aim of life and describes four,
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  theories of existence. One of those theories holds that
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  the Earth life is a preparation for some other existence such as
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  migrating to a heaven or hell. For all eternity based on
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  whether one is good or bad in this lifetime, another idea
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  holds that there is indeed an evolutionary development, but it
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  may take the individual ones, ready to other planes or planets
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  or worlds of existence to continue the development.
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  One way or the other. Unless one holds that life is
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  framed entirely within the walls of one lifetime between birth
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  and death with nothing before and nothing.
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  After one comes away with some entity being or forced that
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  exist prior to this lifetime and continues to exist afterwards.
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  the Tibetan Book of the Dead actually describes a process of
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  the souls, migration after death to an eventual rebirth in
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  another body, and life The ancient Greeks described the
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  migration of the soul, to a waiting area until a rebirth was
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  prepared. And then having the specific
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  memories erased in the waters of the river.
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  Lethe, the soul would be reborn. Once we begin to recognize an
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  evolution of Consciousness, it becomes clear that the
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  development of life out of matter and mind out of life and
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  the further stages that come after and through the
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  development of Mind are not things that occur within one
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  lifetime. It is the soul, the psychic
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  being that carries the spark and mission of the individual being
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  through its innumerable lifetimes, where it experiences
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  and grows distills out the essence of the growth process
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  and takes new bodies in order to take up the next phase of the
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  evolutionary development. This is not as many people
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  believe the rebirth of a specific individual with a
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  specific personality and specific family group.
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  Rather, the soul is not attached to the life of any particular
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  personality or existence. But gathers, the essence and
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  moves on to the next stage or phase of its development.
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  The mother observes quote. Each man has that a mission to
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  fulfill a role to play in the universe apart.
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  He has been given to learn and take up in the cosmic purpose
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  apart, which he alone is capable of executing and no other.
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  This he has to learn and acquire through life experiences.
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  That is to say, not in one life, but in Life After Life, In fact,
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  that is the meaning of the chain of lives that the individual has
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  to pass through namely to acquire experiences and to
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  gather from them, the thread this gain of qualities and
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  attributes powers and capacities for the pattern of life.
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  He has to. We've now the inmost being the
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  true personality, the central consciousness of the evolving
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  individual, Is his psychic being?
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  It is as it were a very tiny spark of light lying in normal
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  people far behind the life experiences in grown-up Souls.
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  This psychic Consciousness has an increased light increased in
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  intensity, volume and richness. Thus, there are old souls and
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  new, Souls old, and ancient are those that have reached or are
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  To reach the fullness of perfection.
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  They have passed through a long history of innumerable lives,
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  and develop the most complex, and yet the most integrated
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  personality New souls are those that have just emerged or are
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  now emerging out of the mere physical vital existence.
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  They are like simple organisms made of fewer constituents
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  related mostly to the bodily life with just a modicum of the
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  mental. It is the soul.
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  However, that grows with experiences and it is the soul
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  that builds and enriches the personality, whatever portion.
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  Into the outer life, whatever element in the mind, or vital or
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  body succeeds in coming into contact.
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  With the psychic Consciousness that is to say is able to come
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  under its influence is taken up in Lodge.
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  There it remains in the psychic being as its living memory and
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  permanent possession. It is such elements that form
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  the basis, the groundwork upon, which the structure of the
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  integral and true personality is raised and quote reference SRI
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  aurobindo and the growing within the psychology of inner
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  development, chapter 8, the psychic being and inner growth
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