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consciousness; the universe is a form and significance in understanding human
definition which is occupied by the entire behaviour and issues in health and illness.
immanence of the Formless and Indefinable (3).” Each piece of behaviour is not an isolated
characteristic; each act of consciousness is
f. Thus the manifestation is by its nature integral. not a single phenomenon. Psychoanalytic
probing has shown how the unconscious
When Sri Aurobindo uses the term ‘integral influences behaviour. Truth is however very
manifestation’, He acknowledges the com- complex and if the unconscious influences
plexity of the manifestation; accepts it as behaviour, the cosmic consciousness and the
an expression of the Omnipresent Reality Superconscious equally influence behaviour.
and not an illusion; describes the ‘pluri- The cosmic consciousness also contains
dimensional’ nature of the manifestation; influences existing from past eras, past-
traces the evolutionary curve in the matrix of lives and occult forces — all of which can
consciousness that formulates the grades of coalesce to bring about greater disharmonies
the manifestation; and forwards the capacity to which a vulnerable subject can succumb.
of ‘transformation’ of the lowest integers in The Superconscious pulls us up from the
manifestation in terms of the highest and downward gravitational influences of the
pari-passu, the blossoming of the ‘highest’ in Inconscience and its Saviour Grace helps
conditions of the lowest. In other words, the us to sail through the adversities of life.
‘superconscient’ can manifest in earthly life; Each piece of behaviour is not an isolated
the Transcendent can be expressed in terms episode but an integer in an integral
of the Universal and Individual. Despite manifestation.
the complexity of what has been described,
the entire manifestation culminates in an When a subject with cardiac pain presents
integral movement where the Infinite can be himself at the hospital, the organ involved
expressed in terms of the Finite and the Finite is one part of the whole. There has been the
can be transformed in terms of the Infinite. lifestyle of the subject which has contributed
In this scheme of things, the manifestation to the clinical picture today and cannot be kept
itself is integrally dynamic. That is why Sri out of consideration. There is the collective
Aurobindo describes the manifestation as an suggestion in the cosmic consciousness
‘integral manifestation’. which identifies any chest complaint with
the heart and the subject is not free from
In the integral manifestation, the Absolute, that influence. The roots of the disharmony
the One, the Transcendent becomes the Many can be traced to the subconscious and the
and each individual formation representing Inconscience and these influences sustain
the Many can also transfigure itself through the bodily disharmony. The body itself has
an evolution in consciousness, in terms of emerged from the Inconscience and carries
the Transcendent. its stigma. There is the stress of performance
at the office which cannot be underestimated.
Practical implications Such stress happens when the outer activity
is not balanced by a poise of inner peace and
The concept of integralism has enormous harmony.

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