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Divine to Human: Understanding the fall and the means to rise
Excerpts from The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo, pp. 178-179] Whence then does the limiting Avidya, the fall of mind from Supermind and the consequent idea of real division originally proceed? Exactly from what perversion of the supramental functioning? It proceeds from the individualised soul viewing everything from its own standpoint and excluding all others; it proceeds, that is to say, by an exclusive concentration of consciousness, an exclusive self-identification of the soul with a particular temporal and spatial action which is only a part of its own play of being; it starts from the soul’s ignoring the fact that…
The Nature of Pain and Pleasure and the origin of Human Emotions
Here are some excerpts from Sri Aurobindo’s “The Life Divine” available online as PDF. Taken from pages 115-117. The Nature of Pain and Pleasure Pain of mind and body is a device of Nature, that is to say, of Force in her works, meant to subserve a definite transitional end in her upward evolution. The world is from the point of view of the individual a play and complex shock of multitudinous forces. In the midst of this complex play the individual stands as a limited constructed being with a limited amount of force exposed to numberless shocks which may…
