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The Nature, Character and Evolutionary Role of the Psychic Entity, the Soul · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The rishi's of the rigveda place jugni at the beginning.
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  And in a central role in the Spiritual Development, they
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  described the flame of aspiration.
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  The knower of all things. Born the Mystic fire is the
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  starting point for spiritual growth.
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  This flame resides in the psychic.
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  Being the sole hidden deep within the Mystic Heart Center.
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  And making itself felt to the external formation of the Mind
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  life body until eventually. It becomes the leader of the
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  powers of the external being guiding and directing them
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  through multiple births and countless steps of growth along
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  the way dr. Dalal notes, quote, in Sri,
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  aurobindo shoga, the Supreme Consciousness truth or reality
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  is spoken of as the divine As described by SRI aurobindo
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  directly quote, the Supreme Being from whom all have come
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  and in whom all are in the portion of the Divine
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  Consciousness, which develops in the process of evolution is
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  called the soul or the psychic Essence, it grows and becomes a
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  distinct individuality referred to.
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  As the psychic being, it is through the psychic being that
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  the evolutionary dynamism inherent in the Consciousness
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  brings about the inner growth of the individual explaining, the
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  nature of the psychic entity, and the process of its Evolution
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  and quote SRI aurobindo writes, quote at the beginning, the soul
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  in nature, the psychic entity, whose unfolding is the first
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  step towards a spiritual change is an entirely veiled part of
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  us. Although, it is that, by which
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  we exist. And persist as individual beings
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  in nature, the other parts of our natural composition are not
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  only mutable but perishable but the psychic entity in our spur.
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  Persists and is fundamentally the same always it contains all
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  the essential possibilities of our manifestation but is not
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  constituted by them. It is not limited by what it
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  manifests not contained by the incomplete forms of the
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  manifestation not tarnished by the imperfections and impurities
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  the defects and deprivations of the surface being It is an Ever
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  pure flame of the Divinity and things and nothing that comes to
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  it. Nothing that enters into our
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  experience can pollute, its Purity or extinguish the flame.
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  The spiritual stuff is immaculate and luminous, and
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  because it is perfectly luminous.
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  It is immediately, intimately directly aware of truth of being
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  and truth of nature. It is deeply conscious of Truth
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  and good and Beauty. Because truth and good and
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  Beauty are akin to its own native character forms of
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  something that is inherent in its own substance.
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  It is aware also of all that contradicts these things of all
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  that deviates from its own native character of falsehood
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  and evil and the ugly and the unseemly.
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  But it does not become these things, nor is it.
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  Touched or Changed by these opposites of itself which so
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  powerfully affect its outer instrumentation of Mind life and
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  body and quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development, introduction Pages
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  Roman 16 to 17.