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The Path of Transformation of Earthly Life into Divine Life Through Unveiling of the Psychic Being and Its Aspiration · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The question of transforming life on Earth into something
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  higher, deeper and more meaningful, aligned with the
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  divine intention in the manifestation, is one that has
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  occupied seers, religious leaders, theologians,
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  scientists, thinkers and philosophers since time
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  immemorial. Plato and his Republic tried to
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  find a way to make life in the society more perfect and
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  harmonious. St.
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  Augustine, in his City of God, tried to determine how to align
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  earthly life with divine intention, overcoming the
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  egocentric view that dominates our external life.
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  In the Ramayana, Walmiki described the ideal of society
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  embodied in the governance of Sri Ram and his brothers.
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  In more modern eras, focus has turned toward creating a more
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  ideal government, social order or economic system.
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  Today, we turn towards technology and AI to help
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  transform life on Earth. The modern mind focuses on
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  enhancing and improving the outer circumstances without
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  taking into account the underlying elements of human
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  nature or its limitations. The earlier approaches, while
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  taking cognizance of the outer changes, also appreciated that a
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  basic change in human nature, in the way we relate to the divine,
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  to our own lives, and to our life in the world, needed to
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  take place. Pharaoh Bindo takes up this
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  issue by relating it to the evolution of consciousness
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  within the wider divine manifestation.
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  He describes an aspiration that rises from below as we begin to
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  express the deeper sense of meaning held by the soul, the
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  psychic being, and then an answering response from above,
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  from the spiritual reality that meets and enlivens that
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  aspiration. One can see this process playing
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  out in the material universe as the earth holds and provides a
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  fertile soil for growth and development, and the sun
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  provides the energy that calls forth response from the depth of
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  the earth. Together the ascent and the
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  descent create the existence. On a spiritual level.
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  This process is mirrored in the Aspiration and the Divine
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  answer, Sri Orovindo writes in Savitri, a legend and a symbol
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  quote. Earth must transform herself and
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  equal heaven, or heaven descend into earth's mortal state.
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  But for such vast spiritual change to be out of the Mystic
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  cavern in man's heart, the heavenly psyche must put off her
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  veil and step into common nature's crowded rooms, and
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  stand uncovered in that nature's front, and rule its thoughts,
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  and fill the body and life. End Quote from book 7, Canto 2
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  reference Srioro window and the Mother, the psychic being, Soul,
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  its nature, Mission and evolution, Section 4.
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  The Psychic Being and Sadhana, page 100.