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Namah                                  Vol. 26, Issue 4, 15th January 2019





        fit habitation for supporting life! How many  at the nethermost spectrum of the physical
        millions of years were needed to evolve the  mind can get activated and move towards a
        human being!                             transformational scheme (7).

        Yet of all creations in the manifestation,  Obviously a transformational agenda leading
        the human being is the most imperfect  to a perfection of the body which would
        in relation to the qualities possessed. The  be ideal, healthy and free of disabilities
        rose is immaculate in beauty and the lion  would require a long time. The Mother has
        is gorgeously splendid in its stature. The  described how this transformed body would
        human being is prone to a thousand and  be characterised by “lightness, adaptability,
        one imperfections because, Sri Aurobindo  plasticity and luminosity (8).” It would thus
        explains, that unlike the rose or the lion, man  be resistant to disruptive changes.What
        is a transitional being capable of a further  could take a millennia could however be
        evolutionary growth in consciousness. He is  compressed in time with the facilitation of
        still a half-finished product, not representative  the spontaneous and natural evolutionary
        of the highest consummation possible.    process by an intense spiritual endeavour
                                                 that would work its way through a trajectory
        However once mind has blossomed in  of consciousness.
        the evolutionary scale, there is going to be a
        paradigm shift in the evolutionary schemata.  The most important psychological requisite
        It is consciousness that will primarily evolve  would be not to reject disabilities but to
        followed by corporeal changes. This evolution  attend to them with care and love so that
        of consciousness will follow a transformational  they can be offered to the Creative Spirit
        paradigm where the lower, imperfect, resistant  for being taken up for transformation in an
        and recalcitrant parts would be transformed  evolved physical consciousness. In fact the
        into their higher integers.              appearance of a perfect human body can
                                                 only be a milestone in a cosmic evolutionary
        One of the most challenging fields of the  scheme if the present prototypal body with its
        future evolution and transformation would  disabilities, deformities, inertia, and impurities
        be the arena of body consciousness. It has  gets transformed. A transformational agenda
        been described how the poise of the mind  needs the most resistant, obscure, recalcitrant
        involved in the physical consciousness and  parts of the human body to come in front so
        enmeshed in the sensory schemata, named  that they can be worked upon. This is the
        by Sri Aurobindo as the physical mind, has  rationale for an increasingly refined caretaking
        first to undergo the transformational change  and counselling for disabled subjects so as to
        for “the physical mind was the instrument  make even a defective physical consciousness
        for direct action upon the most material (6).”  to be evolutionally receptive to transmutational
        In fact this change has to occur before the  changes.
        poise of the mind that deals with dynamic
        action and the poise dealing with cognition  The Mother of course has assured that with an
        get transformed. The Mother has described  increasing receptivity in human consciousness,
        how a hitherto unconscious cellular mind  the transformational agenda can be accelerated.


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