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Immortality the ordinary instrumentation or procedure of
Nature in this matter of propagation or the
What would be the result of the supramental renewal of the physical life-force in human or
transformation of the body? Would the animal beings”.
body gain immortality? Sri Aurobindo is
explicit in this regard, “Immortality is one
of the possible results of supramentalisation,
but it is not an obligatory result and it does
not mean that there will be an eternal or
indefinite prolongation of life as it is. That
is what many think it will be, that they will
remain what they are with all their human
desires and the only difference will be that
they will satisfy them endlessly; but such an
immortality would not be worth having and
it would not be long before people are tired
of it. To live in the Divine and have the divine This scientific process could be supplemented
consciousness is itself immortality and to be by occult means to produce the future
able to divinise the body also and make it a generation of evolved human beings. On
fit instrument for divine works and divine life the 5 July, 1996, scientists of The Roslin
th
would be its material expression only. ….. The Institute of Scotland successfully cloned the
ideal would be not to be subject to Death, but first mammal from a somatic cell using the
to change the body whenever it is necessary process of nuclear transfer. This mammal
with full consciousness (9).” which was a sheep named ’Dolly’ was cloned
from a cell of the mammary gland. It proved
Reproduction in the future that a cell taken from a specific part of the
body and not necessarily the genitals could
Meanwhile, the usual way of procreation recreate a whole individual!
is set to change in the future when the era
of the supramental would manifest. Sri It is significant to recall Sri Aurobindo’s
Aurobindo had envisaged that the new observation, “…. but the resort to occult
body in the new supramental era would means and the intervention of subtle-physical
be able to replace the usual process of processes, if it could be made possible, would
procreation by the evolution of, “…. new be a greater way which could avoid the
means of a supraphysical kind….” …. for limitations, degradations, incompleteness
“…. a voluntary creation of bodies for souls and heavy imperfection of the means and
that seek to enter the earth-life (10).” results solely available to the law of material
force (11).”
He had also foreseen that such a spiritual-
occult means of procreation would be References
preceded by physical science that would,
“…. find physical means for passing beyond 1. [Recorded by A Purani AB]. Evening Talks with

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