The Evolutionary Progress of Nature and the Impact of the Conscious Participation of the Soul

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SRI aurobindo describes the long
slow process of development of

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the universal manifestation.
there is an evolution of

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Consciousness, which takes place
over time spanning many

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Millennia, and which does not
involve the conscious

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participation of the individual,
At a certain point in time when

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the human being develops and has
achieved a certain level of

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self-awareness.
He is able to participate

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consciously in this evolutionary
process and thereby speed it up

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and make it more complete.
It is at this stage that the

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individual generally becomes
conscious of the psychic being

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the spark of the Divine around
which The evolutionary

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development coalesce, Isis and
proceeds.

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Through more direct contact,
with the psychic, being the

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progress becomes more focused
and is solidified.

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The physical vital and mental
progress, have their impact on

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the general texture and
background of life.

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Such that all human beings are
impacted to some degree.

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By that General progress.
This provides a context for the

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soul in its next birth as a
basis for the next phase of

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development.
More particularly a highly

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develop psychic.
Being can actually formulate

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elements that it needs or
requires in its next birth and

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can either Focus the birth into
an environment where those

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things are available or else can
even create a formation that is

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carried along or promptly,
reassembled by the soul and its

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next birth, A disciple inquires.
Then everybody is progressing,

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always isn't that?
So the mother responds quote in

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a certain way.
Yes, only it may not be apparent

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in one lifetime because when
there is no conscious

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participation of the being, the
movement is relatively slow even

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relative to the short duration
of human life.

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And so it is quite possible, for
example, that at the moment of

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death of being seems not to have
progressed.

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And even sometimes it seems to
have been going backwards to

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have lost what it had at the
beginning of its life.

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But if we take the great life,
curve of its psychic, being

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through many lives, there is
always a progress.

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Each experience it had in one of
its physical lifetimes, helps it

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to make some progress but it is
the psychic being which always

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progresses the physical being in
the state in which it is at

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present.
Well, having reached a certain

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point of ascent it comes down
again.

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There are elements which may not
come down again grossly.

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And still it does come down one
can't deny it.

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The vital being not necessarily
nor the mental being the vital

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being.
If it knows how to get connected

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with the universal force, can
very easily have no

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retrogression.
It can continue to ascend and

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the mental being it's absolutely
certain is completely free from

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all degeneration.
If it continues to develop

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Normally.
So these always make progress so

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long as they remain coordinated
and under the influence of the

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psychic and quote reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development, chapter 8, the

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psychic being and inner growth
Pages 159 to 160 So these always

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make progress so long as they
remain coordinated and under the

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influence of the psychic and
quote reference SRI aurobindo in

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the mother growing within the
psychology of inner development,

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chapter 8, the psychic being and
inner growth Pages 159 to 160