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The Case for the Rare Instance of an Ongoing Physical, Vital or Mental Formation Surviving the Death of the Individual · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We have no difficulty seeing and understanding that an individual
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  can create a legacy in the physical world.
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  We inhabit. As we see, the evidence
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  everywhere around us in the form of buildings, Enterprises
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  religious movements, mental development, and
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  conceptualization and artistic Creations, not to speak of the
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  children that carry on much of our physical development and in
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  many, Any cases our Enterprises into future Generations.
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  These things continue to exist. Even when the individual who
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  represented the driving force for their creation has left the
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  scene, we have a much more difficult time however
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  appreciating that a highly developed formation such as a
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  mental framework or vital activity or an advanced physical
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  capacity can be. So solidly formed That they can
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  actually survive the normal process of death and
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  dissolution, and continue as fixed formations on their own
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  and potentially adhere themselves.
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  To another individual who has Affinity with these formations
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  It would, of course, taken extraordinary concentration to
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  build a physical vital, or mental formation.
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  That can hold together upon the death of the body and indeed,
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  the separate Direction taken by the psychic being as it
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  continues, its evolutionary growth in other lifetimes, Such
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  a formation need not stay with the particular psychic entity
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  that created it. But could in theory become
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  available to whichever individual or individuals have
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  affinity for it, in terms of receptivity to the vibration and
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  the willingness to receive and integrate that formation into
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  his or their own lives. It is not impossible to consider
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  this as possible. And there are likely instances
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  that can be pointed to, which seemed to validate this idea.
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  This does not represent the normal case where these
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  formations found in an individual lifetime, will simply
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  dissolve quickly or slowly. As the case may be once the
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  framework of the physical body, which holds them together and
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  the psychic being that formulated them.
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  Depart the mother writes quote in artists, as for instance, in
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  certain musicians who have used their hands in a Particularly
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  conscious way, the vital and mental substance is preserved in
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  the form of hands and these hands remain fully conscious.
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  They can even use the body of living people, if there is a
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  special affinity and so on Otherwise, in ordinary people in
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  whom the psychic form is not fully developed an organized.
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  When the psychic leaves the body, the mental and vital forms
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  May persist, for a certain time if the death has been,
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  particularly peaceful and concentrated.
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  But if a man dies suddenly and in a state of passion with
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  numerous attachments, well, the different parts of the being are
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  dispersed. And live for a shorter or longer
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  time, they're on life in their own domain.
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  And then disappear in 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 Majors 158 to 159.