The Evolution, Growth and Maturation Process of the Psychic Being and the Possibility of a Psychic Transformation of the Being

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Everywhere we look in nature, we
see a similar process.

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A seed sprouts and a tiny
seedling struggles to grow and

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survive.
Eventually it grows, matures and

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comes into its adult strength.
The animal Kingdom has a similar

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reality.
The newborn animal has to

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develop its body, its vital
strength, and whatever mental

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capacities it is intended to
have over time, through embedded

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processes which we call
instincts, through experience

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and through education.
In some cases, this occurs in

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one lifetime, yet we see an
evolving process that takes

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place across many lifetimes,
stretching across millennia.

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It is useful to reflect on this
process as we consider the

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mechanism and process that
provides meaning to this

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development.
If human life is restricted to 1

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brief lifetime, then very little
significance in the universal

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creation can be attributed to
any individual life.

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We might assign significance to
the human race as it grows and

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matures through the action of
individuals as they contribute

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to the larger human story.
It even this seems to lack

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ultimate significance if there
is not also a mechanism for some

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process that provides continuity
across numerous successive

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lifetimes.
Srioro Bindo has provided an

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extensive review of the various
options in Rebirth and karma, in

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addition to the detail he
provides in The Life Divine in

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chapters devoted specifically to
this subject.

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The mechanism that provides
meaning and continuity is the

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process of rebirth.
The soul puts forth the psychic

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being, which begins as more or
less a newborn seed of the

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spirit in each individual and
then grows, matures and evolves,

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gaining strength and experience
to eventually be able to not

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only influence the external
body, life and mind, but gain

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mastery over them and turn them
to the larger purposes of the

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divine creation.
Sri Robindu observes quote.

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Moreover, the psychic being, the
sole personality in US, does not

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emerge full grown and luminous.
It evolves, passes through a

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slow development and formation.
Its figure of being may be at

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first indistinct, and may
afterwards remain for a long

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time weak and undeveloped, not
impure but imperfect, For it

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rests its formation, its dynamic
self, building on the power of

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soul that has been actually and
more or less successfully

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against the resistance of the
ignorance, and in conscience put

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forth in the evolution upon the
surface.

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Its appearance is the sign of a
sole emergence in nature, and if

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that emergence is as yet small
and defective, the psychic

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personality also will be stunted
or feeble.

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It is too, by the obscurity of
our consciousness, separated

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from its inner reality, in
imperfect communication with its

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own source in the depths of the
being.

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For the road is as yet I'll
built, easily obstructed, the

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wires often cut or crowded with
communications of another kind,

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and proceeding from another
origin.

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Its power to impress what it
receives upon the outer

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instruments is also imperfect in
its penury.

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It has for most things to rely
on these instruments, and it

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forms its push to expression and
action on their data, and not

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solely on the unerring
perceptions of the psychic

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entity.
In these conditions it cannot

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prevent the true psychic light
from being diminished or

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distorted in the mind into a
mere idea or opinion, the

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psychic feeling in the heart
into a fallible emotion or mere

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sentiment.
The psychic will to action in

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the life parts into a blind
vital enthusiasm or a fervid

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excitement.
It even accepts these

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mistranslations for want of
something better, and tries to

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fulfill itself through them.
For it is part of the work of

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the soul to influence mind and
heart and vital being and turn

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their ideas, feelings,
enthusiasms, dynamisms in the

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direction of what is divine and
luminous.

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But this has to be done at
first, imperfectly, slowly and

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with a mixture.
As the psychic personality grows

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stronger, it begins to increase
its communion with the psychic

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entity behind it and improve its
communications with the surface.

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It can transmit its intimations
to the mind and heart and life

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with a greater purity and force,
for it is more able to exercise

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a strong control and react
against false mixtures.

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Now more and more it makes
itself distinctly felt as a

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power in the nature.
But Even so, this evolution

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would be slow and long if left
solely to the difficult

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automatic action of the
evolutionary energy.

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It is only when man awakes to
the knowledge of the soul and

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feels a need to bring it to the
front and make it the master of

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his life in action, that a
quicker conscious method of

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evolution intervenes and a
psychic transformation becomes

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possible.
End Quote Reference Sri

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

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mission and evolution.
Section 2.

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Role, function and Action of the
Psychic.

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Pages 54 to 56.