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A Deeper Meaning to Our Existence · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  What if the life we lead is not our true purpose on Earth?
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  What if there's more to our existence than the daily round
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  that we carry out day after day, year after year, changing only
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  the external trappings and specific activities, but falling
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  into a similar groove regardless?
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  How many of us sense at some point in our lives that we are
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  missing something that would help us make sense of it all?
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  In his epic poem Savitri, a Legend and a Symbol, Srioro
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  Bindo explores these questions. Srioro Bindo writes quote this
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  bodily appearance is not all. The form deceives.
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  The person is a mask hid deep in man.
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  Celestial powers can dwell, His fragile ship conveys through the
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  sea of years an Incognito of the imperishable.
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  A spirit that is a flame of God abides A fiery portion of the
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  wonderful artist of his own beauty and delight.
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  Immortal in our mortal poverty, this sculptor of the forms of
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  the Infinite, this screened unrecognised inhabitant,
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  initiate of his own veiled mysteries, hides in a small dumb
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  seed his cosmic thought in the mute strength of the occult
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  idea, determining predestined shape and act, passenger from
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  life to life, from scale to scale, changing his image self
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  from form to form, he regards the icon growing by his gaze,
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  and in the worm foresees the coming God.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
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  Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission and
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  evolution. Section 1.
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  Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being, Page 2.