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discovery which requires at least as much yet lacks the intensity of a total identification.
fortitude and endurance as the discovery of It is only the Psychic Being which gives the
new continents (5).” total and integral identification in the most
intense movement of soul-comradeship. The
Fourth Dimension Psychic being is therefore the real harbinger
of human unity and this unity extends
The Psychic Being carries the deepest to all existence for, in reality, the Supreme
impressions of life as memory-traces Consciousness is present in each manifested
that outlive the individual lifespan. In form, inanimate or animate as an essence.
the Aurobindonian perspective, both the This essence at the heart of everything that
experiential contact with the unevolving or exists goes on qualitatively changing till it
impersonal Self as well as with the evolving reaches the possibility of soul-personality
Self are equally necessary to give the in the human being; nevertheless, the basic
Integral experience of the fourth dimension stuff springs from the same matrix of
without which the work of transformation consciousness. As such, it is not out of mere
is not possible. The unevolving Self being compassion and sympathy that we extend our
Impersonal is inactive too and is in stark unitary perspective to plants and animals, it
contrast to the activity of ignorant Nature, is not merely for mere survival that we care
and hence, “…. the impersonal Self has no for our eco-systems and environment, it is
power to change or divinise the Nature (6).” The absolutely obligatory for us to do so. The
evolving Self as the Psychic Being is needed programme for personal growth therefore
for the work of transformation. Thus, the extends to soul-comradeship with other
soul-space manifesting the Divine becomes fellow-beings and beyond that to concern
the fourth dimension. The Mother explained for other creatures and eco-systems based
that one cannot mentalise consciousness and on the unitary nature of soul-substance
to understand it, one must have the ability to pervading all strata of the manifestation.
feel the fourth dimension (7). The real locus A new soul-fraternity that can give rise
of control of the personality, as psychology to a higher-order human collectivity with
understands it, is thus actually located in integrated individuals (integrated around
the fourth dimension of consciousness as the Psychic Being) can therefore emerge
understood in spirituality. leading to the appearance of a Gnostic
community. This appearance is perhaps the
Soul-comradeship new society of the future. This movement
will be complemented by a new psycho-
The inner or subliminal Being is connected ecology based on the consciousness
with the cosmic consciousness and gives a perspective.
sense of universal love, universal sympathy,
universal compassion — in short, universal References
values that uplift the human race and brings
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has a wide perspective that exceeds the ego; Ashram Trust; 2003, pp. 6-7.

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