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The Evolution of Consciousness Takes Precedence Over the Evolution of Forms · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Western scientists fixated on the material forms of nature who
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  spent countless time and energy tracing the evolution of forms.
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  Classifying families of plants and animals, and the
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  relationships between different species within those families.
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  In this attempt to understand and classify the forms.
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  However, they have not focused on the inner significance of
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  these changes and thus are left with the idea of random mutation
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  and survival of the fittest as the explanations.
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  They even go so far as to imply, that it is the changes in the
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  forms that bring about evolutionary leaps, in mental
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  capacity and development and their mind form causes has
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  function. When we examine human activity.
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  However we see that when human beings create forms, they do so
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  to carry out an intended use or function in this case, the
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  conscious intelligence chooses the form and creates what it
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  needs to do the job. The Potter at the wheel creates
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  the bowl. The clay does not create the
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  bowl, the internal structure of matter, and life makes it
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  abundantly clear that there is an organized and highly
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  conscious intelligence at work in the Universal creation and
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  thus SRI, aurobindo looks at the intention of this intelligence
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  as the determining cause of the forms and their modifications.
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  It is the need for mental development, that brings about
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  the changes in the primate family to eventually bring
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  forth. Homosapiens He distinguishes
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  between the pressure of the higher Consciousness and the
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  mechanism that nature, utilizes to carry out the intention of
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  this consciousness. Evolution is clearly not
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  completed. Man is as SRI aurobindo notes.
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  A transitional being the mental Consciousness.
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  We utilize in our daily lives is clearly an advanced over the
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  rudimentary mental, capacities of the animal kingdom but also
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  clearly not perfect unlimited or able to understand the
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  complexity of the systems within which it is asked to operate.
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  We can trace the manifestation of Consciousness from matter to
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  life. And from life to mind in an Ever
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  developing series of hierarchy of Consciousness.
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  It is simply a matter of extrapolation to understand that
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  further steps in the evolutionary development, await
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  us in the future. Three aurobindo writes quote,
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  the essential purpose and sign of the growing Evolution.
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  Here is the emergence of Consciousness in an apparently
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  incontinent Universe, the growth of Consciousness, and with it
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  growth of the light and power of the being, the development of
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  the form, and its functioning where its Fitness to survive.
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  Although indispensable is not the whole meaning, or the
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  central motive. The greater and greater
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  Awakening of Consciousness and it's climb to a higher and
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  higher level and a wider extent of its vision.
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  And action is the condition of our progress towards that
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  Supreme and total Perfection, which is the aim of our
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  existence. It is the condition.
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  Also of the total Perfection of the body, there are higher
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  levels of Mind than any. We now conceived into these.
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  We must one day reach and Rise Beyond them.
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  Height of a greater, the spiritual existence.
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  As We rise, we have to open to them our lower members and fill
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  these with those Superior. And supreme dynamism is of Light
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  and Power the body. We have to make a more and more
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  and even entirely conscious frame and instrument, a
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  conscious sign, and seal and power of the spirit.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo the mind of Life, the
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  Perfection of the body age, 38. 38.