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Understanding the Physical Body in its Gross and Subtle Aspects · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When a particular power of consciousness is intended to
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  participate in the evolution in the external world, it utilizes
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  the physical body as the foundation or anchor of its
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  action. This fixes its action in the
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  world, while at the same time imposes limits on the power due
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  to the watering down effect. Of having to leave its native,
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  subtler world of unrestricted freedom within its own sphere
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  and acting within the limits imposed by material nature.
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  At the same time, the action of mind, life, energy, psychic
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  soul, and powers beyond the mind are not solely limited to their
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  action in the material sphere, but maintain their native action
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  in their own world. And exert influence through the
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  connection with the material on levels that are more subtle and
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  wider than that of matter. It is possible for the seeker to
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  become aware of these subtler levels of action and interaction
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  as the awareness becomes more refined and is trained to
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  observe and understand actions which normally take place as
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  something of a mystery for most people.
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  Much of what we term coincidence or simultaneity is actually an
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  occult interaction taking place to impact the life, with
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  influences from these other planes of existence and powers
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  of action. Shriora Window observes quote.
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  Everything has a physical part. Even the mind has a physical
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  part. There is a mental physical, a
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  mind of the body and the material.
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  So the emotional being has a physical part.
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  It has no location separate from the rest of the emotional.
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  One can only distinguish that when the consciousness becomes
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  sufficiently subtle to do so. By the gross physical has meant
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  the earthly and bodily physical as experienced by the outward
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  sense, mind and senses. But that is not the whole of
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  matter. There is a subtle physical also.
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  With a subtler consciousness in it, which can, for instance, go
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  to a distance from the body and yet feel and be aware of things
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  in a not merely mental or vital way.
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  The physical nerves are part of the material body, but they are
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  extended into the subtle body, and there is a connection
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  between the two. End Quote Reference.
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  Sriorobindo and the Mother Our Many Selves, Practical Yogic
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  Psychology, Chapter 2. Planes and Parts of the Being,
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  pages 15 to 16.