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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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