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Editorial

The Journey to the Soul-Space

for generations is the soul-poise above the
manifestation; it is the Jivatman or Central
Being; the soul in its un-evolving poise. An
experiential contact with the Jivatman brings
the realisation of impersonality and the
feeling of wideness, immobility and infinity
beyond time and space; it is that which
supports the manifestation. The identification
with the Jivatman frees us from the fetters of
our karma carried through the cycles of life,
frees us from the chains of our actions and the
bondage of our attachments. It brings infinite
freedom; freedom to describe the Supreme
Reality beyond as a Divine Reality or as a
Nihil or zero; freedom to ascribe positive
attributes to the Reality beyond or divesting
it from all attributes through an absolute
We have not only an Outer Being (which is rejection; its nature therefore springs from
known as the personality in contemporary the widest catholicity ever-conceivable. The
psychology) but a larger and vaster but experience of the Jivatman is beyond theistic
subliminal Inner Being. Unlike the outer creeds and atheistic doubts; beyond scientific
being, the Inner Being cannot be sustained hypotheses and metaphysical theses; beyond
by the ego, it needs to be supported by the the attachments and dependencies of life and
inmost soul-essence or the Psychic Being. The hence liberates one from the pull of life. It is
Inmost Being occupies the soul-space deeper to a crowning and overwhelming experience,
the psychological space of the inner Being and which in its extreme consummation, can lead
the aspirant for personal growth has to traverse to a rejection of life.
all other spaces to reach the soul-space.
Psychic Being
The Jivatman
However, consciousness per se is all
There are two poises of the soul (True pervading and acknowledgment of
Self) in the soul-space. The traditionally the Unmanifest does not exclude the
eulogised poise that has always been sought
manifestation. Sri Aurobindo described

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