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Recieved: 1999/02/05 11:34
Subject: [K-list] Parts of the being & Transformation
From: Munagala Neeladrirao

I found this piece by Sri Aurobindo very informative; just wanted to
share with you:

There are in fact two systems simultaneously active in the organisation
of the being and its parts: one
is concentric, a series of rings or sheaths with the psychic at the
centre; another is vertical, an
ascension and descent, like a flight of steps, a series of superimposed
planes with the
supermind-overmind as the crucial nodus of the transition beyond the
human and the Divine. For this
transition, if it is to be at the same time a transformation, there is
only one way, one path. First, there
must be a conversion inwards, a going within to find the inmost psychic
being and bring it out to the
front, disclosing at the same time the inner mind, inner vital, inner
physical parts of the nature. Next,
there must be an ascension, a series of conversions upwards and a
turning down to convert the
lower parts. When one has made the inward conversion, one psychicises
the whole lower nature so
as to make it ready for the divine change. Going upwards, one passes
beyond the human mind and
at each stage of the ascent, there is a conversion into a new
consciousness and an infusion of this
new consciousness into the whole of the nature. Thus rising beyond
intellect through illuminated
higher mind to the intuitive consciousness, we begin to look at
everything not from the intellect range
or through intellect as an instrument, but from a greater intuitive
height and through an intuitivised will,
feeling, emotion, sensation and physical contact. So, proceeding from
Intuition to a greater overmind
height, there is a new conversion and we look at and experience
everything from the overmind
consciousness and through a mind, heart, vital and body surcharged with
the overmind thought,
sight, will, feeling, sensation, play of force there -- once the nature
is supramentalised, we are
beyond the Ignorance and conversion of consciousness is no longer
needed, though a farther divine
progression, even an infinite development is still possible.

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