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longer cling to this shackled so-called free will, body is very significant as it has to support
a puppet freedom ignorant, illusory, relative, the efflorescence of unlimited potentialities.
bound to the error of its own inadequate vital
motives and mental figures (1).” “The bodily transformation will be the supreme
spiritual rebirth — an utter casting away of all
However, the consolidation of the freedom the ordinary past. For spiritual rebirth means
at various planes of the inner being that the constant throwing away of our previous
span freedom from the ruminations of the associations and circumstances and proceeding
physical mind to the alignment of the will to live as if at each virgin moment we were
with the Divine Will, from linking with starting life anew. It is to be free of what is
universal energy to the supra-rational realms called Karma, the stream of our past actions: in
of cognition can only be consolidated if the other words, a liberation from the bondage of
ego is replaced by the Psychic Being which Nature’s common activity of cause and effect
alone can support the inner being. The (3).”
Psychic Being is the fourth-dimensional ego-
surpassing principle that is the true centre References
of the being and is the real harbinger of the
inner and creative freedom. 1. Sri Aurobindo. Birth Centenary Library, Volume
20. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust;
The Psychic Being in turn is a projection 1970, p. 90.
of the Unborn Self or Jnvaatman above the
manifestation. An identification with the 2. Sri Aurobindo. SABCL, Volume 28. 1970, pp.
Jivatman can “lift the yoke imposed by birth 12, 13.
in time” and free one from “the soul’s long
compound debt” of “numberless lives (2).” 3. The Mother. Collected Works of The Mother,
Volume 3. Cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Finally, the culmination of true freedom Ashram Trust: 1977, p. 176.
comes with what Sri Aurobindo envisages
as the transformation of life. In that scheme,
the transformation of the present human
— Dr. Soumitra Basu
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