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individual bodily form, “The Will in the 2. Ibid., p. 191.
universal force that held the form together,
now withdraws from constitution and supports 3. Ibid.
instead a process of dispersion. Not till then is
there the real death of the body (13).” 4. Ibid., p. 190 (footnote).

Death therefore is a disintegration and 5. Ibid., p. 192.
dispersion of the bodily form so that the
Life-Energy, so long supporting the form, gets 6. Ibid.
disentangled and free to reconstitute new
forms. Life-energy is therefore a dynamic 7. Laureys S et al. Unresponsive wakefulness
phenomenon programmed for continual syndrome; a new name for the vegetative state
progress that outlasts the time-span of the or apallic syndrome. BMC Medicine 2010; (8): 68.
material body. If the substance comprising
the material body could undergo a qualitative 8. Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works, Volume 21.
transmutational change through an evolution in pp. 192-3.
consciousness, it would support the functionings
of the life-energy in progressively newer 9. Ibid., p. 193.
denouements, charting out newer perspectives
of health and consciousness. 10. Ibid.

References 11. Ibid.

1. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri 12. Ibid.
Aurobindo, Volume 21. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 2005, p. 190. 13. Ibid.
— Dr. Soumitra Basu

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