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May 9, 2023

The Mental and Vital Formation May Transfer Into a Next Lifetime Under Certain Conditions

The Mental and Vital Formation May Transfer Into a Next Lifetime Under Certain Conditions
The Mental and Vital Formation May Transfer Into a Next Lifetime Under Certain Conditions
Sri Aurobindo Studies
The Mental and Vital Formation May Transfer Into a Next Lifetime Under Certain Conditions
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There are phenomena that are
inexplicable under our normal

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understanding of life and death,
the body dissolves.

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Certainly, and the vital being
and mental dispersed soon

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thereafter and return into their
native Plains yet.

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We find that occasionally.
It seems like a particular

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understanding or capacity has
been continued as if from an

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earlier life.
And we have to explore how this

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may occur.
The phenomenon of The

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Reincarnation of the high Lamas
of Tibet such as the Dalai Lama

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who are in fact, located and
identified by their clear

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Affinity to and memory of
physical tools or things they

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used in the prior lifetime.
Gives us an insight to a facet

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of existence.
That goes beyond our normal

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perception and which occurs in
highly evolved and advanced

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Souls, who are able to organize,
their Consciousness, and their

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mental, and vital powers in a
very high degree such that they

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can hold together Beyond Death.
We also note that sometimes a

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child is born with capacities
that simply were not possible to

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be acquired and learned fresh in
that infants, short life, when

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we hear of great composers such
as Mozart or Beethoven and their

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exploits, in the musical realm
at such an early stage.

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It becomes clear that this
capacity has been brought

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forward somehow from a past
development.

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There are also documented
instances where an individual

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may know a language other than
one from the land where they

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were born or may have clear
memories of places people and

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events that occurred in a past
time and place these things.

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Make it clear that in some
cases, all be it.

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Rarely the mental or vital
formation of one lifetime is

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able to survive death and
continue in some fashion in a A

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new life and individuality.
The mother notes quote when it

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has become an almost completely
formed and already very

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conscious.
Being it presides over the

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formation of the new body and
usually through an inner

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influence it, chooses the
elements and the substance,

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which will form its body in such
a way that the body has adapted

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to the needs of its new
experience.

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But this is at a rather Advanced
stage and later when it is fully

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formed and returns to Earth,
with the idea of service of

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collective help and
participation in the Divine

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work, then it is able to bring
to the body in formation,

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certain elements of the mind and
vital from previous lives which

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having been organized and
impregnated with psychic forces.

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In previous lives could be
Curved and consequently can

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participate in the general
progress, but this is at a very,

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very Advanced stage.
When the psychic is fully

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developed and very conscious
when it becomes a conscious

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instrument of the Divine will it
organizes the vital and the mind

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in such a way that they to
participate in the general

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Harmony and can be preserved.
A high degree of development

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allows at least some parts of
the mental and vital beings to

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be preserved in spite of the
dissolution of the body.

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If, for instance, some parts
mental or vital of the human

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activity, have been particularly
developed these elements of the

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mind and vital are maintained
even in their form, in the form

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of the activity, which has been
fully organized As for example,

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in highly intellectual people
who have particularly developed

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their brains, the mental part of
their being keeps this structure

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and is preserved in the form of
an organized brain which has its

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own life and can be kept
unchanged until a future life.

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So as to participate in it with
all its gains, and quote,

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reference SRI aurobindo, and the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development,
chapter 8, the psychic being and

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inner growth Pages, 157, 158 and
quote, reference SRI aurobindo,

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and the mother growing within
the psychology of inner

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development, chapter 8, the
psychic being and inner growth

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Pages, 157, 158