The Conscious Psychic Being Choosing Its Next Incarnation, Part 1

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The interaction and interplay
between the divine

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manifestation, the psychic
being, and the processes of

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rebirth are generally outside
the direct experience of most

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people.
Scientists who study the

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processes of the universe are
able to identify certain

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principles and details of the
way things develop over time.

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Similarly, those who study
processes involving the

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evolution of consciousness have
been able to identify certain

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principles and details in that
regard.

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There are many stories or
legends about the rebirth of an

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individual across lifetimes.
Some of them, of course, are

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somewhat fanciful, yet others
align with the life experience.

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We can see and extrapolate from
the facts we perceive.

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In the Tibetan Book of the Dead,
we see the considered views and

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experience of those who have
made the issue of death and

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rebirth a focus for their study.
This text deals with the general

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case of an individual who is
still living the external life.

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Primarily, the individual at the
time of death undergoes an

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extensive process over a period
of time that provides the now

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disembodied being with various
signs that either repel or

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attract him.
Eventually, he gravitates

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towards an attractive light or
energy and is reborn in a

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particular circumstance.
The mother addresses a case

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where there is a conscious and
awake psychic being that is

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systematically gaining
experience in order to achieve

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fulfilment.
In this instance, there can be a

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more directed and focused energy
working at the time of death

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that guides the being towards
the next step in the fulfillment

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as set by the psychic being in
its developmental role.

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It must be noted that this is
not the ego personality or the

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external consciousness of the
individual that is deciding how

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to proceed, so it is not based
on the normal criteria that we

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tend to choose when we act from
the standpoint of the ego.

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The mother notes another very
important point in that the

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unity of the creation involves
both the psychic being's choice

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and the interaction of that
choice with an aspiration or

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focus on the part of the birth
mother that creates the pathway

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for the next opportunity in the
soul's development to take place

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through affinity, correspondence
and energetic resonance, the

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mother writes.
Quote I'm going to give you

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quite a concrete example.
Let us take a psychic being that

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is decided for some reason or
other, to enter the body of a

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being destined to become king,
because there is a whole series

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of experiences it can have only
under those conditions.

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After having passed through
these experiences of a king, it

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finds that there is a whole
domain in which it cannot make a

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progress due to these very
conditions of life where it is.

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So when it has finished its term
upon earth and decides to go

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away, it decides that in its
next life it will take birth in

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an ordinary environment and in
ordinary conditions, neither

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high nor low, but such that the
body which it will take up will

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be free to do what it likes.
For I do not tell you anything

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new when I say that the life of
a king is the life of a slave.

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A king is obliged to submit to a
whole protocol and to all kinds

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of ceremonies to keep his
prestige.

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It is perhaps very pleasant for
vain people, but for a psychic

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being it is not pleasant.
For this deprives it of the

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possibility of a large number of
experiences.

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So, having taken this decision,
it carries in itself all the

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memories which a royal life can
give it, and it takes rest for

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the period it considers
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Here I must say I am Speaking of
a psychic being exclusively

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occupied with itself, not one
consecrated to a work, because

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in that case it is the work
which decides the future lives

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and their conditions.
I am Speaking of a psychic being

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at work completing its
development.

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Hence it decides that at a
certain moment it will take a

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body.
Having already had a number of

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experiences, it knows that in a
certain country a certain part

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of the consciousness has
developed in another, another

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part and so on.
So it chooses the place which

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offers it easy possibilities of
development, the country, the

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conditions of living, the
approximate nature of the

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parents, and also the condition
of the body itself, its physical

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structure and the qualities it
needs for its experiences.

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It takes rest, then at the
required moment wakes up and

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projects its consciousness upon
earth, centralizing it in the

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chosen domain and the chosen
conditions.

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Or almost so there is a small
margin, you know.

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For in the psychic consciousness
1 is too far away from the

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material physical consciousness
to be able to see with a clear

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vision.
It is an approximation, it does

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not make a mistake about the
country or the environment, and

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it sees quite clearly the inner
vibrations of the people chosen.

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But there may happen to be a
slight indecision.

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But if just at this moment there
is a couple upon earth, or

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rather a woman who has a psychic
aspiration herself, and for some

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reason or other, without knowing
why or how, would like to have

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an exceptional child answering
certain exceptional conditions.

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If at this moment there is this
aspiration upon earth, it

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creates A vibration, A psychic
light, which the psychic being

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sees immediately and without
hesitation it rushes towards it.

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Then from that moment, which is
the moment of conception, it

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watches over the formation of
the child, so that this

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formation may be as favorable as
possible to the plan it has.

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Consequently, its influence is
there over the child even before

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it appears in the physical
world.

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End Quote.
Reference Sri Robindo and the

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Mother, the psychic being soul,
its nature, Mission and

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evolution.
Section 3.

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