Being and Becoming and the Soul and the Psychic Being

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When we gaze into space at
night, we see stars unimaginably

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distant from us.
We also can experience, if we

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suspend our thinking, mind and
vital desire, soul and physical

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demands temporarily, a sense of
the timeless, the immutable,

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unchanging reality that exceeds
our ability to embrace and

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comprehend.
The rishis of the Rigveda

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referred to the ultimate reality
as satyam ritam, brihat, the

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truth, the right, the vast.
It is the sense of this vast

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reality that does not fit within
our human conception of time,

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space, or causality, that is the
divine, both in the impersonal

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sense and in a personal sense.
As the ultimate being of the

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universe, who encompasses,
creates, upholds, guides,

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directs and manifests all out of
this vast, out of this timeless

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reality, we see a power of
creation, a power that acts to

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differentiate all the forms and
objects and beings and which

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drives them all forward.
This is the becoming.

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And in the becoming we gain a
sense of time, the timeless and

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time.
We see here once again, the two

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standpoints and the different
views that each of them holds of

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the nature of reality.
The divine standpoint is

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timeless, immutable at rest,
while it contains and manifests

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all that acts and moves under
the impulsion of the Divine

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Shakti, the power of creation in
the universal Becoming.

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From another view of the
creation, we can see the Being

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as the Jivatman and the Becoming
as the creatures that make up

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the activity in the world.
And we can see the soul as the

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immutable, unchanging, timeless
element that inhabits each being

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in the creation, and the psychic
being as the element that

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matures and carries the essence
of the experience into a more

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and more perfect representation
of the timeless.

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In time, If we dip a cup into
the ocean, it will quickly fill

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with ocean water.
If we leave it suspended in the

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water, it will be full, although
the actual ocean water may flow

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in and out.
The water in the cup and the

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water in the ocean are one.
The cup itself, the container,

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is a construct to make it seem
like there is a separation

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difference, the illusion of
many.

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There is no conflict between
1:00 and many, between being and

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becoming, between self and
nature, between soul and psychic

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being.
Rather, they are simply

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different ways of viewing and
understanding the one reality.

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When we shift to a standpoint
outside our small limited ego

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personality, we can get a sense
of the timeless reality.

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Sri Robindo notes quote what is
original and eternal forever in

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the Divine is the Being.
What is developed in

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consciousness, conditions,
forces, forms, etcetera by the

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Divine power is the becoming.
The eternal Divine Is the being.

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The universe in time, and that
is apparent in it, is a

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becoming.
The eternal being in its

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superior nature, Para prakruti
is at once one and many, but the

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eternal multiplicity of the
divine when it stands behind the

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created existences, Sorva
Bhutani appears as, or as we may

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say, becomes the Jiva para
prakritir jiva Bhuta.

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In the psychic on the other
hand, there are two aspects, the

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psychic existence or soul behind
and in front the form of

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individuality it takes in its
evolution in nature End Quote

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reference srioro bindu and the
mother the psychic being soul,

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its nature, mission and
evolution Section 1 meaning and

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nature of the psychic being page
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