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Namah Individualisation in Integral Yoga Psychology

the individualisation of the soul is unfolding.
The ability of an individual to override
the instrumental ego formations is in direct
proportion to the stage of evolution of the soul
within. While many spiritual traditions focus
on liberating the soul from the entrapment in
the instrumental layers and eventual rejection
of the instruments and earthly life, Integral
Yoga looks at the possibility of accelerating
animal body, the possibility of individualisation
is rare. Except for very rare cases, animals are the evolutionary transformation of the
not individualised and when they die, they instrumental layers and divinising them
return to the spirit of the species (9).” by establishing higher stages of the soul’s
evolution within the human mould.
The Mother explains the relationship between
the spirit of the species and instinct. References

“… what is called ‘instinct’ in animals is simply 1. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,
obedience to the spirit of the species which Volume 28. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
always knows what ought and ought not to Trust; 2012, p. 521.
be done (10).”
2. The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother,

“The animal soul fulfils itself when it transcends Volume 6. Cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
animality and becomes human. Humanity also Ashram Trust; 1979, p. 335.
fulfils itself when it transcends humanity and
becomes God (11).” 3. Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works, Volume 23-24;
1999, p. 356.
The individualisation of the soul becomes
a possibility when it reaches the stage of 4. Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works, Volume 25; 1997,
evolution through the human body. This p. 63.
possibility opens the doors to evolve towards
our divinity. Here we can see there are two 5. Ibid., p. 424.
sides to evolution simultaneously unfolding.
One is at the causal level, the evolution of the 6. Ibid.
soul, and the other is at the instrumental level,
the evolution of the mental, vital and physical 7. Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works, Volume 35; 2011,
instrumentation, becoming increasingly p. 148.
capable of expressing the emerging divinity.
8. Ibid., pp. 148-49
The human mind, the vital and physical
instrumentation, are at the forefront of evolution 9. The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 15; 1979,
on earth and it is within this instrumentation p. 127.

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