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be the basis for manifesting the Divine. And The subtle physical surrounds our gross
once the body began to be transformed, the body — indeed it became denser and denser to
phenomenon of transformation would spread become the gross physical. All that happens in the
like a contagion. physical consciousness — the physical body in
particular and the physical consciousness in
Speaking of bodily transformation, the Mother general has antecedents in the subtle physical.
describes:
We could meditate on the subtle physical
“But once it is done — that’s what Sri Aurobindo envelope that not only surrounds the gross
had said — once one body has done it, it body but surrounds each organ in the body.
becomes capable of passing it on to others…. And then we could extend our individual
It’s contagious. I know it! And that’s the only subtle physical to the universal subtle
hope, because if everybody had to go through physical. And invoke The Mother’s Light,
the same experience…. (6).” That is why the Peace and Protection from above to permeate
virus in attacking the cell and facilitating the subtle physical, illumining and
contagion is a more formidable opponent strengthening it so that it is not penetrated
to the change in status of the cell required by vital entities ensuing from what Sri
for the evolutionary transformation of the Aurobindo calls, “the dim gulf of things”
cellular consciousness! (vide supra).

References:

1. The Mother. Mother’s Agenda, Volume 4. Paris:
Institut de Recherches Evolutives; English
Translation 1987, pp. 116-17.

2. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,
Volume 2. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Trust; 2009, p. 614.
Meditation
3. Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works, Volume 33; 1997, p. 141.
We could do a relevant meditation. In Sri
Aurobindo’s world-view, the outer being or 4. Ibid., p. 142.
ego-bound surface personality is supported
by an inner being, that is in turn supported 5. Ibid.
by an ego-surpassing soul-principle and is in
communion with the universal consciousness. 6. The Mother quoted in: Satprem, Venet L.
The inner being has an inner mind, an inner Life without Death. New York: Institute for
vital and an inner or subtle physical. Evolutionary Research; 1985, pp. 78, 79.

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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