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The Value of Mental, Vital and Physical Progress for Future Births · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  What possible value is the effort at mental, emotional,
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  vital or physical progress to the soul, if it cannot carry
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  that progress forward into the next and future lives.
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  In his epic poem, savitri, a legend and a symbol SRI
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  aurobindo raises the issue quote.
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  But the Oblivion that succeeds. The fall had blotted, the
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  crowded tablets of the past and all that was destroyed, must be
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  rebuilt. And old experience, labored out
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  once more. And quote, there are several
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  points to consider. If one looks at the question,
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  solely from the Viewpoint of an individual soul, and it's
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  experience for most cases, there is a limited but real benefit to
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  the soul as it has gathered the essence of the experience and
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  the progress which can be a foundation for the next phase
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  in. The next lifetime, in rare
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  instances, some of the actual progress or formations if
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  tightly bound to the psychic And carry forward, but that is
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  obviously not the usual circumstance.
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  Yet, if we look at it from the standpoint of the larger
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  Universal creation, the progress, clearly helps Advance
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  the General State of Consciousness and provides a new
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  fertile basis for the soul to enter into its next birth, that
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  provides a systemic enhancement to the process benefiting.
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  Not just the individual soul but the collective development.
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  It is generally not necessary for the soul to actually repeat
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  over and over again. It's exact developmental steps
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  and progress from Life To Life. even if it is not carrying
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  specific development on the mental, vital or physical level
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  forward, it benefits from the general enhancement as well as
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  from the essential experience and can use this as the basis,
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  for new upward, effort, and momentum, a disciple asks, If it
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  is not the Mind, vital or physical, which takes birth
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  again, but only the psychic being then, the vital, our
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  mental progress made before as of no value in another life.
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  The mother answers quote, it happens only to the extent.
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  The progress of these parts has brought them close to the
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  psychic. That is to the extent, the
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  progress lies in putting all the parts of the being successively
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  under the psychic influence. For all that is under the
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  psychic influence. And identified with the psychic
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  continues, And it is that alone which continues, but if the
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  psychic is made the center of one's life and Consciousness,
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  and if the whole being is organized around it, the whole
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  being passes under the psychic, influence becomes United with it
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  and can continue if it is necessary.
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  For it to continue and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development,
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  chapter 8, the psychic being and inner growth.
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