The Material World Is the Effect, Not the Cause, of Vital, Mental, or Spiritual Manifestation

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Humanity, for the most part,
continues to believe that the

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material world occupies a
primary place in the creation of

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the universe, and that somehow
matter is able to create the

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encoding and the complex systems
that come along with that

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encoding out of some random
mixture of elements.

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If we review every other aspect
of our existence, however, and

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examine the process of creation,
we find that just the opposite

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occurs.
A sculptor envisions a form in

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the material he is sculpting and
then applies his vision, his

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intelligence, his developed
skills, and his vital force to

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turn the material form into the
expression of his vision.

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Music does not arise
automatically out of matter, but

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it's channeled and created
through the mental, emotional,

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and vital powers of the
individual creating the music.

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Computers do not gain the power
to analyze data purely from the

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physical box being assembled.
Rather, a programmer needs to

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input software that will operate
and utilize the capacity built

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into the box.
It is the fixation with the

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foundation of matter that
creates our confusion.

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In this regard, if we examine
the universal manifestation to

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the extent we can gain insight
into it, we invariably find that

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the more subtle levels, the
mental level, the vital level,

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are the ones that drive the
operation and changes within

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matter.
This brings us to the question

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of how this comes about.
And this in turn brings us to an

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exploration and increasing level
of understanding of planes or

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worlds of existence that are the
native home of mental powers and

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beings or vital powers and
beings.

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And eventually we determine
there are yet further planes and

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beings that precede and are
causative of even these mental

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and vital planes, domains we may
call spiritual or super mental,

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etcetera.
Sri Orbindo notes quote this

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character of the other world's
defeats, all our attempts to

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give the premier importance to
our own plane of being and to

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our own part in the mundane
manifestation.

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We do not create God as a myth
of our consciousness, but our

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instruments for a progressive
manifestation of the Divine in

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the material being.
We do not create the Gods, his

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powers, but rather such divinity
as we manifest is the partial

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reflection and the shaping here
of eternal godheads.

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We do not create the higher
planes, but our intermediaries

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by which they reveal their
light, power, beauty, in

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whatever form and scope can be
given to them by nature force on

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the material plane.
It is the pressure of the life

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world which enables life to
evolve and develop here in the

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forms we already know.
It is that increasing pressure

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which drives it to aspire in us
to a greater revelation of

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itself and will one day deliver
the mortal from his subjection

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to the narrow limitations of his
present incompetent and

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restricting physicality.
It is the pressure of the mind

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world which evolves and develops
mind here and helps us to find a

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leverage for our mental self
uplifting and expansion so that

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we may hope to enlarge
continually our self of

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intelligence and even to break
the prison walls of our matter

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bound physical mentality.
It is the pressure of the Super

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mental and spiritual worlds
which is preparing to develop

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here the manifest power of the
Spirit and by it open out being

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on the physical plane into the
freedom and Infinity of the

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Super conscient Divine.
That contact, that pressure can

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alone liberate from the apparent
inconscience which was our

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starting point, the all
conscient God had concealed in

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US.
End Quote Reference Sri

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Aurovindo and the Mother, The
Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter

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6.
Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary

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Forces.
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