Another Choice

Turning away from their common origin, they changed into unconsciousness, obscurity, death and suffering.

So then the Supreme, in Its state of Force, observing the consequence of this freedom, emitted a new element, which would be everywhere at once immanent and evolving and would never separate but would ceaselessly work towards reunion and consummation – the progressive and wholesome accomplishment of the supreme manifest becoming.”

Love.

Here is one’s individual soul, when one unites with it – from the ego’s fragmented construction to the conscious oneness behind the heart.

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Another approach to this ineffable comprehension traces the first emission of this forever pure flame to the very instant of the Choice – this timeless instant, when occurred the choice to manifest and to exist. In that instant which preceded space-time and matter, in that instant of vision, will and force, this element of absolute forever purity stirred, at the centre of the center of everything everywhere. Even before contradiction must play itself out – so that one day the choice may become everywhere conscious and wholly shared with no possibility ever of any relapse -, this element was already there: the very security of manifestation, its always present truth.

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This original and permanent element in matter, intimate with all that exists in the physical and material world, this element which, with the evolution of all forms and organisms and the appearance of the human being – living matter attempting to resemble an eternal model at the highest of all planes -, has experientially individualized, here it is.

The “psychic” element, so named by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: the psychic being.

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