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Without the Soul We Wouldn't Exist! · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The great mysteries that have occupied humanity since the dawn
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  of human existence include the questions Where do we come from?
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  Where do we go when we die? How has this vast universal
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  creation manifested and what is its purpose and significance?
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  Do we have a soul and what, if anything, survives the death of
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  our current life? Awareness.
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  There are many ideas that have come up throughout humanity's
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  existence. It is worthwhile to reflect on
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  our own relationship to these questions as we become more
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  aware of the issues in our own lives and the aspiration that
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  turns us toward them as we grow and mature in our understanding.
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  In the Titiria Upanishad Brahmanandavali Chapter 6
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  translated by Sri Aurobindo quote The spirit desired of old
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  I would be manifold for the birth of peoples.
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  Therefore He concentrated all himself in thought, and by the
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  force of his brooding He created all this universe.
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  Yeah, all whatsoever existeth now.
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  When He had brought it forth, He entered into that He had
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  created. He entering in became the is
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  here and the may be there. He became that which is defined
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  and that which hath no feature. He become this housed thing and
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  that houseless. He became knowledge and he
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  became ignorance. He became truth and he became
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  falsehood. Yeah, He became all truth even
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  whatsoever here existeth. Therefore they say of him that
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  he is truth. End Quote and continuing in
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  Chapter 7 quote. In the beginning all this
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  universe was non existent and unmanifest from which this
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  manifest existence was born. Itself created itself.
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  None other created it. End Quote.
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  And in chapter 8 quote the spirit who is here in a man and
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  the spirit who is there in the sun.
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  It is one spirit and there is no other.
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  End Quote. Reference the Upanishads.
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  Sri Rabindo Tituria Upanishad Brahmanandavali, pages 270 to
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  273. The Divine created the entire
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  manifested universe and is the container, the contained and the
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  existent in all creation. The soul is the spark of the
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  Divine, which knows this truth of oneness with the Divine and
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  maintains the conscious connection to the Divine even
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  when the external being forgets. We cannot dissect the body to
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  find the soul. We cannot find the soul in the
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  vital being or in the mind of man.
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  Yet without the soul, without the Divine who has entered into
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  and created and maintained all life and all forms, there would
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  not be a human individual to take up this search for the
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  soul. A disciple asks Sweet Mother,
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  what is the role of the soul? The mother responds quote, But
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  without the soul we wouldn't exist.
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  The soul is that which comes from the Divine without ever
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  leaving Him, and returns to the Divine without ceasing to be
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  manifest. The soul is the Divine made
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  individual without ceasing to be Divine.
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  In the soul, the individual and the Divine are eternally one.
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  Therefore, to find one's soul is to find God.
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  To identify with one's soul is to unite with the divine.
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  Thus, it may be said that the role of the soul is to make a
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  true being of man. End Quote Reference Srioro Bindu
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  and the Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission
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  and evolution. Section 2.
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  Role, function and Action of the Psychic.
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  Pages 49 to 50.