The Refraction of the Unified Supreme Consciousness Into the Various Levels and Forms of the Manifested Creation

0:00 The supreme consciousness refracts itself into subspheres of awareness, depending on the level of the creation that needs that awareness. Thus the unified supreme consciousness known as Satchitananda creates apparent separate forms at the knowledge level, the supermental consciousness, which then distributes awareness into the created existence at separate levels and forms. This awareness we then identify as the mental witness, the vital witness and the physical witness. The self designated controller from above apportions awareness directly at the soul level, which Rio Robindo calls a spark of the divine in the beings who interact in the world.

0:51 While we remain immersed in the external personality and the multiplicity of forms and forces, we do not recognize the higher levels of consciousness and the unity that stands behind all of these levels. As we become aware of the psychic being, the soul presence, its direct connection with the Self above and the unity with the divine consciousness provides us a new window of understanding and a new perspective that can appreciate both the unity and the multiplicity as seen from the different standpoints of the divine and the human being, Sriorubindo writes quote.

1:38 The central being, the Jivatman, which is not born nor evolves, but presides over the individual birth and evolution, puts forth a representative of himself on each plane of the consciousness. On the mental plane. It is the true mental being, mano Maya Purusha, on the vital plane, the true vital being, Pranamaya perusha, on the physical plane, the true physical being anamaya Perusha. Each being, therefore, is, so long as the ignorance lasts, centered round his mental, vital or physical Perusha, according to the plane on which he predominantly lives, and that is to him his central being.

2:25 But the true representative all the time is concealed behind the mind, vital and physical. It is the psychic, our inmost being. When the inmost knowledge begins to come, we become aware of the psychic being within us, and it comes forward and leads the Sadhna. We become aware also of the Jivatnam, the undivided self or spirit above the manifestation of which the psychic is the representative. Here End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution. Section 1.

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