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Evolutionary Change and the Process of Time · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Evolutionary changes take place in what may be called
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  evolutionary time, which measures major changes over
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  Millennia, certainly far beyond the span of any individual human
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  lifetime. Thus, when we look at any
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  attempt to modify human nature, not to speak a physical
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  characteristics that are embedded in the DNA, or even the
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  long and deeply embedded habits in our Vital nature.
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  That are part of the subconscious inheritance.
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  We have that frame, our way of reacting to circumstances.
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  We cannot expect to see radical change in the course of a few
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  years time. SRI aurobindo has pointed out
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  that with the conscious participation of the mental
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  intelligence and the bringing forward into action of the soul,
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  the psychic being the process can be speeded up, but he also
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  did not envisage a complete. Information of human nature in
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  the course of even one century. He reflected at some point that
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  the changes he was looking for may take several hundred years.
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  This does not mean however that an individual called to this
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  Pursuit should simply either give up or even slack off in the
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  effort. SRI aurobindo describe the
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  proper attitude in this regard as one that has the energy to
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  accomplish everything without delay.
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  While at the same time, maintaining the patient's for
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  the deed to be accomplished over the course of many lifetimes.
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  The individual can avoid the depths of depression due to the
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  time, it takes by identifying not with the individual ego
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  personality. But with the psychic and through
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  its identification with the Divine, the universal
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  manifestation, the Divine Shakti The psychic being recognizes the
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  Timeless nature of the universal unfoldment and does not get
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  burdened by the slow, pace of the human process.
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  The mother notes, quote, and the human consciousness, everything
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  is very slow. When we compare the time that is
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  necessary to realize something with the average length of human
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  existence. It seems interminable, but
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  happily, there comes a time when one escapes from this notion,
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  when one begins to feel no longer according to human
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  measures. As soon as one is truly, in
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  touch with the psychic one loses, this kind of narratives
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  and of Agony. Also, this Agony, which is so
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  bad. I must be quick.
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  I must be quick. There is not much time, I must
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  hurry. There is not much time.
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  One does things very badly or doesn't do them at all anymore.
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  But as soon as there is a contact with the psychic, then
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  indeed this disappears, one begins to be a little more vast
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  and calm and peaceful and to live in eternity psychic.
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  Poise means the Poise of the being which comes from the fact
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  that the psychic which governs the movement.
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  So the being is the master of all the movements of
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  Consciousness. The psychic is always well
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  poised. So when it is active and
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  governs, the being it inevitably brings a balance and quote,
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  reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living within the yoga
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  approach to psychological health and growth, the psychic being
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  and psychological Health, the Psychic Source of inner
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  well-being Pages, 119, 21 22,