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The Action of the Superconscient in Our External Lives · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Just as forces and vibrations act upon us that vibrate below
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  our normal human level of perceptive range and bring in
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  much of the past subconscient, dark and ignorant reactions that
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  drive much of our human life, so also there are forces and
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  vibrations that enter us from above our perceptible range
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  which have their source and origin in what may be called the
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  Super conscient levels. Because they are outside our
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  immediate range of perception, they mostly enter us unseen and
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  unknown, what many would call subliminally, and from there
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  they work to influence and express themselves as possible
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  through our external being and personality.
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  Shriorobindo points out that the action here works through the
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  chakras, the subtle energy centers that Channel the various
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  forces at work in the being into the external life.
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  To the extent that we are capable of opening to the
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  energetic action of the respective chakras, the powers
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  and forces that enter and collect there can have a direct
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  influence on our lives. It is from the higher super
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  conscient ranges that those things we name.
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  Inspiration, intuition, revelation, vision, and creative
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  insights occur while we receive them without conscious
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  awareness. We express them as much as
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  possible and treat them as our own creative actions, when in
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  fact they are the result of our receptivity to an ability to
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  channel forces stemming from these higher ranges of
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  consciousness. Shri Robindo notes quote From
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  there come all the greater aspirations, ideals, strivings
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  towards a better self and better humanity, without which man
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  would be only a thinking animal. As also most of the art, poetry,
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  philosophy, thirst for knowledge, which relieve, if
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  they do not yet dispel, the ignorance, the role of the
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  superconscient has been to evolve slowly the spiritual man
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  out of the mental half animal. Even in Europe the existence of
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  something behind the surface is now very frequently admitted,
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  but its nature is mistaken, and it is called subconscious or
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  subliminal. Well, really it is very
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  conscious in its own way, and not subliminal, but only behind
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  the veil. It is according to our
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  psychology, connected with the small outer personality by
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  certain centers of consciousness of which we become aware by
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  yoga. Only a little of the inner being
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  escapes through these centers into the outer life.
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  But that little is the best part of ourselves and responsible for
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  our art, poetry, philosophy, ideals, religious aspirations,
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  efforts at knowledge and perfection.
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  End Quote Reference Shriyaropinda and the Mother,
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  The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 2, Hidden Forces within
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  page 43.