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Dr. Soumitra Basu is a psychiatrist working with consciousness paradigms. He conducts workshops on personal growth and is a Founder-Editor of NAMAH, the ...
Higher planes are involutionary planes
We do not create the higher planes or worlds but they always exist in the cosmic consciousness as involutionary planes that run alongside evolutionary planes. In fact each evolutionary plane manifests perfectly when it is influenced by the corresponding higher involutionary plane. For example when the evolutionary life-plane develops, it receives influences from the higher involutionary Life-world to reveal itself fully. Likewise when the evolutionary mind-plane develops, it receives influences from the higher involutionary Mind-world so that it can expand itself beyond the matter-bound mentality. Similarly the supramental and spiritual worlds are preparing to exert their influences on the evolutionary being and their pressure can alone liberate us from the Inconscience which is our starting point. The all-conscient Godhead is concealed in the Inconscience and will be gradually released by the pressure of the Supramental world. In fact, we do not create the gods but gradually manifest the Divine. "We do not create God as a myth of our consciousness, but are instruments for a progressive manifestation of the Divine in the material being." (Ibid, pg.811)
But we have certain experiences in our inner or subliminal being that raises a question against any priority to the supraphysical worlds. Firstly, in the vision of after-death experience, we seek a supraphysical prolongation of the earth-experience, not of the actual supraphysical worlds. Secondly, in the involutionary Life-worlds we find the presence of darkness, falsehood, incapacity and evil. Of course these exist in the vital worlds but from where do they come to the involutionary Life-Worlds (Vital worlds). They were supposed to form during evolution but how can they exist in the involutionary worlds? After all the involuntary worlds represent a gradual diminution of knowledge, cognition and delight of being but that does not justify an intrusion of darkness, falsehood and evil. One possibility might be they are projected from the Inconscience. Another possibility is they "were already created as part of a parallel gradation to the involutionary descent, a gradation forming a stair for evolutionary ascension towards Spirit". (Ibid, pg.812) Such an ascending gradation would serve two purposes. It would contain pre-formations of good and evil that evolves in the struggle for the evolutionary growth of the soul. Or they would be formations existing for themselves for their independent satisfaction, exercising on evolutionary beings their characteristic influence. (Ibid, pg.813)
Sri Aurobindo on the Supra-Physical Worlds
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Sri Aurobindo on the Spread of the Idea
Kireet Joshi was an Indian philosopher. Disciple of Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa. In 1976, the Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, appointed Kireet as Education Advisor to the Government of India. He also served as the Chairman of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. An Educational adviser of Gujarat Chief Minister, 2008-2010 and several other important posts. Author of Several Books on Philosophy, Yoga, Education and Teacher Training. https://kireetjoshi.in/
Sri Aurobindo, Independent India and the World by Prof. Kireet Joshi
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Rebirth and Other Worlds: PartII, Chapter XXII
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Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Triple Transformation
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Sri Aurobindo's - 'The Life Divine' - The Human Aspiration - Chapter I
Life Divine Chapter I & II (Dec 1996)
Bob Zwicker visited and eventually joined the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, in 1971 at the age of twenty-five. In 1973 he joined the Ashram Archives where he has been working ever since. His first big project was to prepare the seventeen volumes of the Mother’s Collected Works around Her Birth Centenary in 1978. He has also played a significant role in preparing the thirty-six volumes of Sri Aurobindo’s writings for the Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. In recognition of his invaluable contribution in the field of Aurobindonian studies, he was honored with the Sri Aurobindo Puraskar by Sri Aurobindo Samiti, Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata, in August 2025.
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- Remembering My Ashram Elders by Bob Zwicker
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