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The Action of the Higher Planes Is Needed to Bring Forth the Manifestation of Life, Mind and Spirit in the Material World · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Matter prepared and encoded with the data set required to bring
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  forth life does not spontaneously on its own express
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  the life form for which it is encoded.
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  The seed or the egg remains potential latent until it is
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  acted upon by a force external to it.
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  In the case of the seed of a plant, the sun's force combined
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  with the action of moisture leads to the sprouting of the
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  seed. In the case of an animal's egg,
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  we find that a heat source is needed to warm the egg until it
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  is ready to hatch. For mammals, a complex mixture
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  of warmth and nourishment is provided to the embryo as it
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  grows within the mother's womb. The external force that is
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  required to bring about the manifestation of the life energy
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  in a material form provides us a clear sign of the interaction
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  that takes place to lead to the manifestation of life and mind
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  and eventually further aspects of consciousness involved in
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  matter. Through the pressure and occult
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  action of these higher planes on the material plane, Shriorobindo
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  notes quote, our development takes place very largely by
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  their higher planes superior but hidden action upon the earth
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  plane. All is contained in the
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  inconscient or the subconscient, but in potentiality it is the
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  action from above that helps to compel an emergence.
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  A continuance of that action is necessary to shape and determine
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  the progression of the mental and vital forms which our
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  evolution takes in material nature.
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  For these progressive movements cannot find their full momentum,
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  or sufficiently develop their implications against the
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  resistance of an inconscient or inert and ignorant material
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  nature, except by a constant, though occult, resort to higher
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  supra physical forces of their own character.
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  This resort, the action of this veiled alliance, takes place
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  principally in our subliminal being and not on the surface.
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  It is from there that the active power of our consciousness
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  emerges, and all that it realizes it sends back
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  constantly into the subliminal being to be stored up, developed
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  and re emerge in stronger forms hereafter.
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  This interaction of our larger hidden being and our surface
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  personality is the main secret of the rapid development that
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  operates in man once he has passed beyond the lower stages
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  of mind immersed in matter. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
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  The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 6.
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  Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary Forces.
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  Pages 1:48 to 1:49.