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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 4, 15th January 2024

evolving and individualising, but it is only and individuality, following a physical
an ego formation, not the real individual. developmental process growing towards its
The ego is a surface formation at the level physical adulthood and all the way towards
of the instrumental nature giving a sense of ageing and death. It inherits the heredity from
individual identity separate from the collective. the parents and the generations that preceded
it and yet each human body comes with a
“In order to become a conscious, individualised unique fingerprint! No two human bodies
being, one needs his ego; that is why it is there are exactly the same. Even at the material
(2).” front end, there is a law of variation and
individuality.
For each layer of our instrumentation, there
is a corresponding ego — mental ego, vital “In Matter variation is limited; there is variation
ego and physical ego. While the soul belongs of type, but, on the whole, uniformity of the
to the causal domain, the mind belongs to individuals of the type. These individuals
the subtle, and the composite of the vital and have a separate movement, but yet the same
physical belongs to the gross body. movement; subject to some minute differences,
they adhere to one particular pattern and have
“The formation of a mental and vital ego tied to the same assemblage of properties. Variety
the body-sense was the first great labour of the within the type, apart from minor unicities of
Cosmic Life in its progressive evolution; for this detail, is gained by variation of group sub-types
was the means it found for creating out of matter belonging to one general kind, species and sub-
a conscious individual. The dissolution of this species of the same genus (4).”
limiting ego is the one condition, the necessary We have racial types within the human species
means for this very same Life to arrive at its possessing unique physical features. There is
divine fruition: for only so can the conscious further variation and subtypes all the way to
individual find either his transcendent self or the individual with a unique individuality of
his true Person (3).” fingerprint and other patterns that are specific
to an individual, however minor it is. Within
Physical Ego the broad type of the species and its subtypes,
there is a customisation of the individual
body making it unique, a law of variation
at work. Each individual body is a unique
material construction, a unique form and ego
construct that Nature has established in her
evolutionary process. However, this ego and
its processes are entirely beyond the cognitive
range of the normal surface personality and
its mental ego. Outwardly, this material mould
is a product of biological evolution on earth
and the Darwinian perspective on evolution
When a child is born and the umbilical cord essentially deals with the evolution of this
is cut, the physical body takes on autonomy mould.

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