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Matter or body itself is a limiting form of
substance of spirit in which life and mind and
spirit are involved, self-hidden, self-forgetful
by absorption in their own externalising
action, but bound to emerge from it by a
self-compelling evolution. But matter too
is capable of refining to subtler forms of
substance in which it becomes more apparently
a formal density of life, of mind, of spirit. Man
himself has, besides this gross material body,
an encasing vital sheath, a mental body, a
body of bliss and gnosis. But all matter, all
body contains within it the secret powers of
these higher principles; matter is a formation
of life that has no real existence apart from the
informing universal spirit which gives it its
energy and substance.

— Sri Aurobindo