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But Sri Aurobindo describes that, at a higher en route to a true spiritual era. Only we have
level of consciousness, we can have a true to be cautious that the freedom we cherish
spontaneity of freedom without any dis- must manifest in a matrix of harmony and
harmony or chaos; must be in consonance with our endeavour
to surpass ourselves along the trajectory of
“It is even possible that our original state was consciousness.This would need the help of
an instinctive animal spontaneity of free and a new psychology arising from the annals of
fluid association and that our final ideal state Integral Yoga, a truly consciousness-based
will be an enlightened, intuitive spontaneity psychology that helps to progress through
of free and fluid association (7).” It would be the supra-cognitive planes of consciousness.
a divine anarchy where individual freedom
would not belittle societal growth but instead References
would facilitate a new type of higher living.
1. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,
Such a philosophic Anarchism that, is guided Volume 13. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
by the inner law of right and spontaneous Trust; 1998, p. 204.
love, thinking and action, one that is not curbed
by societal and ethical codes or governmental 2. Sri Aurobindo. CWSA, Volume 34; 1997, p. 652
laws and strictures, has been the dream of
humanity since man began to dream and 3. Sri Aurobindo. CWSA, Volume 28; 2012, p. 491.
aspire.
4. Ibid., p. 492.
In counselling too we cannot afford to
downplay or inhibit the urge to freedom that 5. Sri Aurobindo. CWSA, Volume 25; 1997, p. 29.
may not necessarily be a sign of outrageousness,
but a product of the Time-Spirit or Zeitgeist that 6. CWSA, Volume 21; 2005, p. 104.
is pressing the human consciousness to rise
from the individualistic to the subjective age 7. Sri Aurobindo. CWSA, Volume 25, p. 292.

Dr. Soumitra Basu, a practising psychiatrist and member of SAIIIHR, is the Director of a school of
psychology, Integral Yoga Psychology. He is also one of the editors of NAMAH.

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