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The Evolutionary Progress of Nature and the Impact of the Conscious Participation of the Soul · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  SRI aurobindo describes the long slow process of development of
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  the universal manifestation. there is an evolution of
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  Consciousness, which takes place over time spanning many
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  Millennia, and which does not involve the conscious
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  participation of the individual, At a certain point in time when
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  the human being develops and has achieved a certain level of
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  self-awareness. He is able to participate
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  consciously in this evolutionary process and thereby speed it up
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  and make it more complete. It is at this stage that the
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  individual generally becomes conscious of the psychic being
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  the spark of the Divine around which The evolutionary
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  development coalesce, Isis and proceeds.
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  Through more direct contact, with the psychic, being the
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  progress becomes more focused and is solidified.
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  The physical vital and mental progress, have their impact on
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  the general texture and background of life.
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  Such that all human beings are impacted to some degree.
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  By that General progress. This provides a context for the
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  soul in its next birth as a basis for the next phase of
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  development. More particularly a highly
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  develop psychic. Being can actually formulate
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  elements that it needs or requires in its next birth and
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  can either Focus the birth into an environment where those
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  things are available or else can even create a formation that is
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  carried along or promptly, reassembled by the soul and its
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  next birth, A disciple inquires. Then everybody is progressing,
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  always isn't that? So the mother responds quote in
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  a certain way. Yes, only it may not be apparent
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  in one lifetime because when there is no conscious
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  participation of the being, the movement is relatively slow even
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  relative to the short duration of human life.
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  And so it is quite possible, for example, that at the moment of
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  death of being seems not to have progressed.
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  And even sometimes it seems to have been going backwards to
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  have lost what it had at the beginning of its life.
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  But if we take the great life, curve of its psychic, being
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  through many lives, there is always a progress.
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  Each experience it had in one of its physical lifetimes, helps it
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  to make some progress but it is the psychic being which always
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  progresses the physical being in the state in which it is at
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  present. Well, having reached a certain
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  point of ascent it comes down again.
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  There are elements which may not come down again grossly.
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  And still it does come down one can't deny it.
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  The vital being not necessarily nor the mental being the vital
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  being. If it knows how to get connected
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  with the universal force, can very easily have no
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  retrogression. It can continue to ascend and
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  the mental being it's absolutely certain is completely free from
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  all degeneration. If it continues to develop
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  Normally. So these always make progress so
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  long as they remain coordinated and under the influence of the
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  psychic and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development, chapter 8, the
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  psychic being and inner growth Pages 159 to 160 So these always
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  make progress so long as they remain coordinated and under the
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  influence of the psychic and quote reference SRI aurobindo in
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  the mother growing within the psychology of inner development,
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  chapter 8, the psychic being and inner growth Pages 159 to 160