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The Jiva, the Soul and the Psychic Being -- the Interface Between the Divine Standpoint and the Human Standpoint · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The Knowledge Plane, which Sri Aurobindo terms the Super Mental
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  Consciousness, is the level where the unity of the Supreme
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  Consciousness is refracted to create the apparent multiplicity
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  of the manifested universe. This level holds both the
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  oneness and the multiplicity with a consciousness that does
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  not have the type of conflict we have at our mental level with
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  our either or mental process. This leads to an interface
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  whereby the consciousness present in the unity of the
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  Divine has to create for itself a multiple awareness to manage
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  each of the individual components of the process.
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  This is the Jiva, the central being that does not enter
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  directly into the manifestation, but sits above and manages the
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  interface, so to speak. Then from the side of the
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  multiplicity in the creation, there is the corresponding
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  element to the Jiva, which is the soul, the divine spark that
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  does not directly participate in the evolution either, but is the
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  link between the higher reality and the manifested reality.
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  When seen from the standpoint of the human being.
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  The soul is then the central being.
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  The soul puts forth the evolving element, which Sri Orbindo calls
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  the psychic being to harvest the essence of experience and
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  participate in the creation and the evolutionary process.
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  Sri Orbindo observes quote. The central being is the being
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  which presides over the different births one after the
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  other, but is itself unborn, for it does not descend into the
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  being but is above it. It holds together the mental,
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  vital, and physical being and all the various parts of the
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  personality, and it controls the life, either through the mental
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  being and the mental thought and will, or through the psychic,
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  whichever may happen to be most in front or most powerful in
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  nature. If it does not exercise its
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  control, then the consciousness is in great disorder and every
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  part of the personality acts for itself so that there is no
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  coherence in the thought, feeling or action.
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  End Quote. Reference Srioro Binda and the
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  Mother. The psychic being soul, its
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  nature, mission and evolution. Section 1.
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  Meaning and Nature of the psychic Being.
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  Page 17.