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May 10, 2023

The Case for the Rare Instance of an Ongoing Physical, Vital or Mental Formation Surviving the Death of the Individual

The Case for the Rare Instance of an Ongoing Physical, Vital or Mental Formation Surviving the Death of the Individual
The Case for the Rare Instance of an Ongoing Physical, Vital or Mental Formation Surviving the Death of the Individual
Sri Aurobindo Studies
The Case for the Rare Instance of an Ongoing Physical, Vital or Mental Formation Surviving the Death of the Individual
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We have no difficulty seeing and
understanding that an individual

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can create a legacy in the
physical world.

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We inhabit.
As we see, the evidence

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everywhere around us in the form
of buildings, Enterprises

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religious movements, mental
development, and

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conceptualization and artistic
Creations, not to speak of the

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children that carry on much of
our physical development and in

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many, Any cases our Enterprises
into future Generations.

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These things continue to exist.
Even when the individual who

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represented the driving force
for their creation has left the

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scene, we have a much more
difficult time however

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appreciating that a highly
developed formation such as a

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mental framework or vital
activity or an advanced physical

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capacity can be.
So solidly formed That they can

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actually survive the normal
process of death and

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dissolution, and continue as
fixed formations on their own

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and potentially adhere
themselves.

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To another individual who has
Affinity with these formations

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It would, of course, taken
extraordinary concentration to

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build a physical vital, or
mental formation.

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That can hold together upon the
death of the body and indeed,

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the separate Direction taken by
the psychic being as it

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continues, its evolutionary
growth in other lifetimes, Such

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a formation need not stay with
the particular psychic entity

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that created it.
But could in theory become

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available to whichever
individual or individuals have

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affinity for it, in terms of
receptivity to the vibration and

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the willingness to receive and
integrate that formation into

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his or their own lives.
It is not impossible to consider

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this as possible.
And there are likely instances

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that can be pointed to, which
seemed to validate this idea.

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This does not represent the
normal case where these

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formations found in an
individual lifetime, will simply

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dissolve quickly or slowly.
As the case may be once the

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framework of the physical body,
which holds them together and

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the psychic being that
formulated them.

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Depart the mother writes quote
in artists, as for instance, in

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certain musicians who have used
their hands in a Particularly

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conscious way, the vital and
mental substance is preserved in

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the form of hands and these
hands remain fully conscious.

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They can even use the body of
living people, if there is a

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special affinity and so on
Otherwise, in ordinary people in

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whom the psychic form is not
fully developed an organized.

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When the psychic leaves the
body, the mental and vital forms

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May persist, for a certain time
if the death has been,

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particularly peaceful and
concentrated.

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But if a man dies suddenly and
in a state of passion with

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numerous attachments, well, the
different parts of the being are

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dispersed.
And live for a shorter or longer

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time, they're on life in their
own domain.

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And then disappear in quote
reference SRI aurobindo in the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 8, the psychic being and
inner growth Majors 158 to 159.