The Conscious Psychic Being Choosing Its Next Incarnation, Part 1

0:00 The interaction and interplay between the divine manifestation, the psychic being, and the processes of rebirth are generally outside the direct experience of most people. Scientists who study the processes of the universe are able to identify certain principles and details of the way things develop over time. Similarly, those who study processes involving the evolution of consciousness have been able to identify certain principles and details in that regard. There are many stories or legends about the rebirth of an individual across lifetimes. Some of them, of course, are somewhat fanciful, yet others align with the life experience.

0:48 We can see and extrapolate from the facts we perceive. In the Tibetan Book of the Dead, we see the considered views and experience of those who have made the issue of death and rebirth a focus for their study. This text deals with the general case of an individual who is still living the external life. Primarily, the individual at the time of death undergoes an extensive process over a period of time that provides the now disembodied being with various signs that either repel or attract him. Eventually, he gravitates towards an attractive light or energy and is reborn in a particular circumstance. The mother addresses a case where there is a conscious and awake psychic being that is systematically gaining experience in order to achieve fulfilment. In this instance, there can be a more directed and focused energy working at the time of death that guides the being towards the next step in the fulfillment as set by the psychic being in its developmental role.

2:00 It must be noted that this is not the ego personality or the external consciousness of the individual that is deciding how to proceed, so it is not based on the normal criteria that we tend to choose when we act from the standpoint of the ego. The mother notes another very important point in that the unity of the creation involves both the psychic being's choice and the interaction of that choice with an aspiration or focus on the part of the birth mother that creates the pathway for the next opportunity in the soul's development to take place through affinity, correspondence and energetic resonance, the mother writes. Quote I'm going to give you quite a concrete example. Let us take a psychic being that is decided for some reason or other, to enter the body of a being destined to become king, because there is a whole series of experiences it can have only under those conditions.

3:08 After having passed through these experiences of a king, it finds that there is a whole domain in which it cannot make a progress due to these very conditions of life where it is. So when it has finished its term upon earth and decides to go away, it decides that in its next life it will take birth in an ordinary environment and in ordinary conditions, neither high nor low, but such that the body which it will take up will be free to do what it likes. For I do not tell you anything new when I say that the life of a king is the life of a slave. A king is obliged to submit to a whole protocol and to all kinds of ceremonies to keep his prestige.

3:54 It is perhaps very pleasant for vain people, but for a psychic being it is not pleasant. For this deprives it of the possibility of a large number of experiences. So, having taken this decision, it carries in itself all the memories which a royal life can give it, and it takes rest for the period it considers necessary. Here I must say I am Speaking of a psychic being exclusively occupied with itself, not one consecrated to a work, because in that case it is the work which decides the future lives and their conditions. I am Speaking of a psychic being at work completing its development.

4:38 Hence it decides that at a certain moment it will take a body. Having already had a number of experiences, it knows that in a certain country a certain part of the consciousness has developed in another, another part and so on. So it chooses the place which offers it easy possibilities of development, the country, the conditions of living, the approximate nature of the parents, and also the condition of the body itself, its physical structure and the qualities it needs for its experiences. It takes rest, then at the required moment wakes up and projects its consciousness upon earth, centralizing it in the chosen domain and the chosen conditions.

5:25 Or almost so there is a small margin, you know. For in the psychic consciousness 1 is too far away from the material physical consciousness to be able to see with a clear vision. It is an approximation, it does not make a mistake about the country or the environment, and it sees quite clearly the inner vibrations of the people chosen. But there may happen to be a slight indecision. But if just at this moment there is a couple upon earth, or rather a woman who has a psychic aspiration herself, and for some reason or other, without knowing why or how, would like to have an exceptional child answering certain exceptional conditions.

6:13 If at this moment there is this aspiration upon earth, it creates A vibration, A psychic light, which the psychic being sees immediately and without hesitation it rushes towards it. Then from that moment, which is the moment of conception, it watches over the formation of the child, so that this formation may be as favorable as possible to the plan it has. Consequently, its influence is there over the child even before it appears in the physical world. End Quote. Reference Sri Robindo and the Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, Mission and evolution. Section 3.

6:59 Growth and Development of the Psychic, pages 80 to 82.