The Conscious Psychic Being Choosing Its Next Incarnation, Part 2

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Sometimes a soul is born into
the world with a sense of a

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predetermined and destined path
forward based on focus and

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determinations made in the prior
lifetime.

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Such an individual, in some
cases very early in life, may

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know things, may feel like he
has already known things that

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come before his view, or may
find life circumstances aligning

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to guide him in a particular
direction.

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The awakened and developed
psychic being can arrange such

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results whether the external
personality and circumstances

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acknowledge it or not.
In such cases the individual

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feels like he is re establishing
a foundation built previously.

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Srioro Bindo in his poem
Savitri, a legend and a symbol

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in Book 1.
Canto one states quote.

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A thought was sown in the
unsounded void, A sense was born

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within the darkness depths, a
memory quivered in the heart of

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time, as if a soul long dead
were moved to live.

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But the oblivion that succeeds
the fall had blotted the crowded

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tablets of the past, and all
that was destroyed must be

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rebuilt and old experience
labored out once more.

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End Quote.
An individual recounted events

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from his childhood.
He experienced forces pressing

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intensely on his head on
occasions as a young child, to

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the extent that at times he felt
like his head would burst under

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the pressure.
He recounted experiencing,

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during an illness that
manifested a high fever again

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during his childhood, the sense
of a body far wider than his

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physical form.
He was drawn to reading

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religious and philosophical
literature at a young age.

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He eventually faced certain
external circumstances that led

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him away from higher education
and a career path.

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He wound up studying texts and
attempting to practice yoga on

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his own until he eventually
identified a spiritual writer

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who resonated with his deepest
sense of the purpose of his

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life.
He stated that he felt like the

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writer was expressing for him on
the printed page his own deepest

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aspirations, thoughts, and
feelings.

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He also noted that he
experienced in dream certain

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significant meetings he would
have in the future with

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individuals who would influence
his life and direction.

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He recognized these individuals
when they later came into his

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environs.
When he reflected backwards on

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his life, he saw that
situations, both positive and

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negative, shaped and guided his
steps forward.

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He met people who aided him on
the way, guided and supported

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him at times, and brought him to
a realization that his life was

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already focused without his
knowing it, even at the time of

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his birth, and that henceforth
he was intended to live a life

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of dedication.
He was moved by the bodhisattva

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vow of the Buddhist traditions,
but felt that his mission was

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not to help others escape the
world of illusion, but to

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transform it into a true
expression of the deeper purpose

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behind the universal creation.
His story is not unique.

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A similar story has been
recounted by many others, which

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provides evidence of the deeper
forces at work in shaping the

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creation and the individual
expressions within that larger

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universal manifestation.
The Mother recounted at one

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point how as a young child she
received teachings from an

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individual whom she later
recognized as being Srioro Bindo

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when she met him in person many
years later.

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In the book Called To Heal, the
story of an African shamanic

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healer who did everything
possible to try to avoid taking

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on the responsibilities of a
healer until she finally

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recognized that her health and
her future depended on taking up

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that work.
Her story shows the way her path

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was laid out for her and
circumstances arranged in such a

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way that even when her external
personality resisted, eventually

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the direction was set.
Paramount's Yogananda recounted

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in his Autobiography of a Yogi
how he was drawn to dedicate his

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life from a young age to
spirituality.

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When he eventually met his guru,
he came to understand that he

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had some scaras from past
lifetimes of practice in the

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spiritual heights of the
Himalayas, but needed to now

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turn his focus toward a
dedicated work in the world.

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The mother observes.
Quote If all goes well, if there

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is no accident, accidents can
always happen.

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If all goes well at the moment
the child is about to be born,

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the psychic force, perhaps not
in its totality but a part of

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the psychic consciousness,
rushes into the being and from

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its very first cry gives it a
push towards the experiences it

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wants the child to acquire.
The result is that even if the

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parents are not conscious, even
if the child in its external

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consciousness is not quite
conscious, a little child does

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not have the necessary brain for
that.

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It forms slowly, little by
little.

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In spite of that it will be
possible for the psychic

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influence to direct all the
events, all the circumstances of

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the life of this child, till the
moment it becomes capable of

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coming into conscious contact
with its psychic being.

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Physically it is generally
between the ages of four and

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seven, sometime sooner,
sometimes almost immediately.

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But in such a case we deal with
children who are not children,

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who have supernatural qualities,
As they say, they are not

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supernatural, but simply the
expression of the presence of

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the psychic being.
But there are people who have

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not had the chance, or rather
the good fortune, if one may

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call it that, of meeting someone
physically who could instruct

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them.
And yet they have the feeling

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that every step of their
existence, every circumstance of

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their life, is arranged by
someone conscious so that they

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may make the maximum progress.
When they need a certain

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circumstance, it comes.
When they need to meet certain

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people, they come.
When they need to read certain

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books, they find them within
their reach.

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Everything is arranged like
that, as if someone was watching

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over them so that their life may
have the maximum possibilities

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of development.
These people may very well say,

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but what is a psychic being?
For no one has ever used these

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words in speaking to them, or
they have not found anybody who

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could explain to them all that.
But for them, often just one

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meeting is sufficient.
Just one look in order to wake

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up one word suffices to make
them remember.

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But I knew all that.
This is exactly what happens to

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a psychic being which has
reached the last stage of its

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development.
After that, it will no longer be

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bound by the necessity of coming
upon earth.

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It will have completed its
development and will be able to

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choose freely either to
consecrate itself to the divine

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work or go elsewhere, that is,
in the higher worlds.

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But generally, having come to
this stage, it remembers all

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that has happened to it and
understands the great necessity

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of coming to the help of those
who are yet struggling in the

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midst of difficulties.
These psychic beings give their

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whole existence to the Divine
work.

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This is not absolute,
inevitable.

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They choose freely.
But 90 times out of 100 this is

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what they do.
End Quote.

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Reference Sri Orovindo and the
Mother, the psychic being soul,

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its nature, Mission and
evolution.

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Section 3.
Growth and Development of the

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Psychic, pages 82 to 84.