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Evolution of Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Nature takes a long time to effectuate substantive
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  evolutionary progress in manifesting higher, more complex
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  and more powerful forms of Consciousness.
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  The shift from the realm of matter, took countless
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  Millennia. The first appearance of life was
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  simple. And again, the time required was
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  far beyond what any human individual can possibly conceive
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  in any realistic manner. Along the way, there were
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  countless forms that developed embodying various powers of the
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  Life Energy. Just as before that various
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  forms of matter, evolve to include metals and crystals that
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  have a higher responsiveness than the initial forms of rock
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  that were expressed with the Advent of Mind, a new form of
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  evolutionary development manifested.
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  And again, there were different forms that To embody varying
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  powers of mind. Again, countless Millennia were
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  required to bring us to the current status of the
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  manifestation of Mind in the world as seen in our human
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  existence. in each case, the new expression of Consciousness
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  built up and was based in the existence of the prior
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  expressions in our world, thus life, evolved in and through
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  matter and mind, evolved in and through life, in a material
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  body, Well this progression may not hold true in all possible
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  worlds. Where universes, this is the
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  evident progression in our world as the next level of
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  Consciousness begins to emerge. We met extrapolate from the
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  manner in which the prior levels of manifested, the new
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  Consciousness would then be expressed through mind and based
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  in life and matter. Given the imbalances caused by
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  the Advent of life and mind into the world of matter.
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  Pollution, climate change world wars, nuclear and biological
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  weapons. Waste and mismanagement of
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  limited resources, etc, etc, etc with no Solutions Insight from
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  even our, highest mental capacities, we certainly cannot
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  wait for countless Millennia for the next phase to develop and
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  provide new powers of To rectify, these imbalances, and
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  provide a harmonious development platform.
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  Thus the issue arises as to whether anything has changed to
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  provide us to Hope or the certainty of a faster and more
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  leveraged process. SRI aurobindo has identified the
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  ability of the human being to participate consciously, in the
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  evolution as a lever to speed up this emergence.
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  SRI, aurobindo, observes quote. It is fundamentally an evolution
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  of Consciousness that has been taking place in nature and
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  quote. Dr. De la Alex founds further
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  quote the inner growth of the human being is simply a
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  continuation of the evolution of Consciousness which has hitherto
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  resulted successively in the emergence of life out of matter
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  and of mind out of life. In other words, Consciousness
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  has developed ever higher forms of its manifestation on Earth
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  from the mineral to the plant, to the animal to man.
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  The mental being Called inner growth in this book, refers to
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  the evolution of Consciousness, Beyond mind.
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  Prior to the appearance of the human or mental beam, Evolution
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  has been a slow subconscious process.
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  The emergence of Mind marks, the beginning of a new process of
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  evolution by which the human being through a conscious will
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  and aspiration for inner growth becomes a conscious participant
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  and collaborator in the evolution of Consciousness.
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  Thus inner growth is a process of conscious evolution.
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  Any system of proven methods for achieving inner growth is yoga
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  for yoga is as noted by SRI, aurobindo quote, a Methodist
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  effort towards self Perfection by the expression of the
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  potentiality is latent in the being in quote.
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  Regarding the two modes of evolution subconscious Evolution
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  through the processes of Nature and conscious evolution through
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  yoga, SRI aurobindo writes, quote, all nature is an attempt
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  at a progressive, revelation of the concealed truth.
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  But what nature aims at for the mass in a slow Evolution yoga
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  effects for the individual by a rapid Revolution, their aim is
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  one in the end. The generalization of yoga in
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  humanity must be the last victory of nature over her own
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  delays and concealments. Even as now by the progressive
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  mind of science, she seeks to make all mankind fit for the
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  full development of the mental life.
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  So by yoga mushy, inevitably seek to make all mankind fit for
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  the higher Evolution. The second birth.
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  The spiritual existence and quote breath.
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  Ernst SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development, introduction Pages, Roman 32
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  Roman for