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and this could only be accomplished if the and as it evolves through successive lives, it
multiplicity was unaware of its unitary origin. becomes a conscious entity. Actually, it has
The manifestation was therefore in a way to pass through many rebirths to become a
ignorant of the True all-pervading unity while conscious individuality.
the Purussa being the Unmanifest Self was
always aware of unity as the sole reality. As The psychic being as the centre of integration
long as this dichotomy prevailed, salvation
could only be attained by shifting from the As long as we are unaware of the psychic
manifestation to the Unmanifest Self. being, the manifestation remains rudderless
Sri Aurobindo wanted a divinisation of the and chaotic or tied up to serve the ego in its
manifestation itself so that it could reflect various facades. The chaos happens as all the
the underlying unity. It was a tall order. He planes of consciousness are not in harmony
explained that the manifestation, as we view when they are represented in our surface
it, was not final and there could an evolution being of outer personality. In fact, they are
of the manifest consciousness itself, unveiling intermingled at the outer being and truly one
higher powers and planes of consciousness cannot identify them in their distinctive poises.
till the highest creative consciousness was Once we are aware of the psychic being, the
reached. planes of consciousness move from disharmony
to harmony as they first shift from the outer
Element of divinity being to the inner or subliminal being where
they can be differentiated from one another.
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But Prakrti alone cannot divinise itself unless Then they can be integrated around the psychic
an element of divinity was incorporated in it being. Once the integration has taken place, the
to motivate it to progress. And this element mind, vital and physical planes of consciousness
of divinity would reflect the true unitary become instruments of the psychic being. Until
consciousness. they become instruments of the psychic being,
they cannot be divinised.
Sri Aurobindo explained that this could be
possible by activating a secret that had been The true centre of integration of the being is not
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hinted at earlier in the Upanisads but had not the ego but the psychic being. An individual,
been fully explored. The Unmanifest Self or whose consciousness is integrated around the
Jivatman projects a portion of itself into the ego-surpassing soul-principle or psychic being,
a
manifestation. This was the psychic being can be ready to ascend the higher echelons of
or Chaitya Purussa that is ordinarily veiled. consciousness.
It lies in the fourth-dimensional space but it
can come forward to replace the ego and take
the leadership of personal growth.

As the psychic being is a projection of the non-
evolving Self in the evolutionary schemata, it
also grows along the evolutionary trajectory. At
its origin it is a divine spark of consciousness

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