The Psychic Being and Progress

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Until someone actively takes up
the spiritual path and

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consciously begins to focus on
the significance of his life and

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the purpose of the
manifestation, the question of

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progress for the psychic being
does not even arise.

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The progress takes place, but it
happens without appreciation or

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acknowledgement by the
individual who is absorbed in

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the outer life and focused on
the development of the ego

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personality and its measure of
success in the world.

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Up until the individual
consciously takes up the work,

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the progress in terms of growth
and development of the psychic

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being takes place, and it will
continue with the aid of the

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conscious participation of the
spiritual seeker.

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Eventually, the fully developed
and manifested psychic being is

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confronted with choices and the
freedom to make the choice

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without anyone judging that
choice.

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The choices include leaving the
manifestation for permanent

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residence in what might be
called the psychic world or

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domain or any other world or
heaven, gaining the freedom to

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depart but turning back to
assist others in reaching that

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point.
That is the Bodhisattva vow and

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voluntarily choosing to return
to support the divine

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manifestation in its
evolutionary program.

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Assuming the soul is chosen to
return and work towards either

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universal liberation or
evolutionary development, it

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then looks to how to best
refine, develop and utilize its

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external being, the instruments
of action in the world, body,

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life and mind.
There is a progressive

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development possible here as
well.

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The ability to more perfectly
represent and express the

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spiritual force and the psychic
aspiration is an important

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aspect of the role of the
psychic being in the general

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evolutionary process.
A disciple asks, does the

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psychic being always progress?
The Mother responds quote.

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There are in the psychic being 2
very different kinds of

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progress, 1 consisting in its
formation.

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Building an organization for the
psychic starts by being only a

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kind of tiny divine spark inside
the being, and out of this spark

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will emerge progressively.
An independent conscious being

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have it having its own action
and will.

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The psychic being at its origin
is only a spark of the divine

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consciousness, and it is through
successive lives that it builds

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up a conscious individuality.
It is a progress similar to that

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of a growing child.
It is a thing in the making for

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a long time in most human
beings.

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The psychic is a being in the
making.

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It is not a fully
individualized, fully conscious

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being and master of itself, and
it needs all its rebirths, one

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after another in order to build
itself and become fully

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conscious.
But this sort of progress has an

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end.
There comes a time when the

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being is fully developed, fully
individualized, fully master of

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itself and its destiny, when
this being, or one of these

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psychic beings at that state,
takes birth in a human being.

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That makes a very great
difference.

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The human being, so to say, is
Born Free.

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He is not tied to circumstances,
to surroundings, to his origin

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and atavism.
Like ordinary people, he comes

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into the world with the purpose
of doing something, with a work

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to carry out, a mission to
fulfill.

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From this point of view, his
progress in growth has come to

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an end, That is, it is not
indispensable for him to take

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birth again in a body.
Till then rebirth is a

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necessity, for it is through
rebirth that he grows.

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It is in the physical life and
in a physical body that he

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gradually develops and becomes a
fully conscious being.

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But once he is fully formed, he
is free in this sense that he

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can take birth or not at will.
So there one kind of progress

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stops.
But if this fully formed being

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wants to become an instrument of
work for the Divine, if instead

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of retiring to repose in a
psychic bliss in its own domain,

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he chooses to be a worker upon
earth to help in the fulfillment

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of the divine work, then he has
a fresh progress to make a

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progress in the capacity for
work, for organization of his

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work, and for expression of the
divine will.

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So there is a time when the
thing changes.

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So long as he remains in the
world, so long as he chooses to

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work for the divine, he will
progress.

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Only if he withdraws into the
psychic world and refuses to

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continue doing the divine work
or renounces it, can he remain

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in a static condition outside
all progress.

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Because, as I have told you,
only upon earth is there

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progress, only in the physical
world.

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It is not acquired.
Everywhere in the psychic world

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there is a kind of blissful
repose.

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One remains what 1 is without
any movement.

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End Quote.
Reference Sri Aurobindo and the

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

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evolution.
Section 3.

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Growth and Development of the
Psychic, pages 89 to 90.