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Namah Notes on counselling

depression. The seeker of personal growth by space and time. However, during the
is free, detached and without any anxiety. process of replication, the archetype suffers
While the obsessive subject struggles against distortion and deviation when ultimately
an imperfection constructed in the mind, the manifested in the earth consciousness. The
seeker of personal growth attempts perfection redemption comes by a continual process of
with joy, spontaneity and freedom. While progressive perfection striving towards the
the obsessive subject gets more and more Truth. The perfect archetype in the global
stressed, anxious and exasperated with every cognitive field exerts its pull in creation.
fight against imperfection, the seeker of Truth
gets progressively free from stress with every Amal Kiran (K.D.Sethna) explains how in one
conscious attempt at perfection that brings of his most moving poems, Sri Aurobindo
one nearer and nearer to the Truth. describes the archetypal representation that is
ever-perfect (the first two lines of each stanza)
The Mother described how every small and the aspiration invoking its blossoming
movement could be executed with a conscious in the earth-consciousness (the last two lines
perfection. Sri Anirvan , the great wayfarer of each stanza) (3):
saint, expands on The Mother’s insistence for
perfection. He describes that every conscious “Rose of God, damask force of Infinity, red
act of perfection can be construed in two ways: icon of might,
Rose of Power with thy diamond halo piercing
a. Each movement could be a ‘personal asana’ the night!
in one’s own spiritual pursuit; or Ablaze in the will of the mortal, design the
b. Each conscious gesture could be a voluntary wonder of thy plan,
movement connected with one’s most Image of immortality, outbreak of the Godhead
conducive spiritual poise. in man (4).”

In either case, each conscious attempt at If the Unconscious (in Freudian terms)
perfection would reflect the dignity of the influences each piece of behaviour, the
inner being (2). Superconscious equally pulls up each piece
of behaviour towards its heavenly archetypal
Why perfection? representation. This is the raison d’être for the
quest for progressive perfection.
The anarchist would question the necessity to
strive for perfection. After all, imperfection Attributes of perfection
is a reality and part of life, so why deny
it? A rational answer is difficult. One can Perfection is a eulogised state needing the
venture to seek its reason in the Aurobindonian cultivation of certain attributes. The Mother,
paradigm. The Supreme Creative Supramental while describing psychological and spiritual
Consciousness holds the ‘idea’ of each form significances of flowers, named Plumeria rubra
while the Overmind plane of Global cognition to represent Psychological Perfection. This tree
manifests each ‘idea’ as a perfect archetype bears clusters of fragrant funneliform flowers
that would be replicated in the world bound with soft velvety petals in a large variety of

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