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Namah The Ascent of Man — Unity and Diversity

saint. Or he may climb beyond the limits and revealed by Sri Aurobindo. This further
of the mind towards a transmutation of evolution is bound to be collective with its
his mind into the mind of the sage. Or, he own set of intermediary sub-species, such
may open to higher ranges of our spiritual as the psychicised humanity, the spiritual
being, to higher faculties than the rational humanity, the Superman and the Overman
mind, to inspiration and revelation and and then passing through the gnostic individual
intuition thereby giving birth to the RRssi or and the world-personality, and finally, into
the Seer. Finally, this evolution may lead the Supramental being. This discussion can
to an identification with different aspects of be postponed for another time and another
the One Divine Reality and we then have the article.
Yogi evolving out of man.
But for the moment, it suffices to understand
The Yogi too is not final. There is more to come, that humanity is not one uniform type but
much more, since evolution cannot cease either many-layered, many different types that are
with man or with the few beings here and there like the many steps and stages for the animal
who have risen beyond man. This further to evolve towards man and beyond. Once
evolution beyond the sage and the saint, we understand this we can now turn to the
beyond even the traditional understanding practical implications of this evolutionary
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of the Yogi and the Rsi has been mapped out hierarchy.

Dr. Alok Pandey, an editor of NAMAH and a member of SAIIIHR, is a doctor practising at the Sri
Aurobindo Ashram.

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