Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Yoga
5. Planes and Parts of the Being
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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee
February 1934
Purusha in Prakriti is the Kshara Purusha – standing back from it is the Akshara Purusha.
Ego-sense and Purusha are two quite different things – ego-sense is a mechanism of Prakriti, Purusha is the conscious being.
The psychic being evolves, so it is not the immutable.
The psychic being is especially the soul of the individual evolving in the manifestation the individual Prakriti and taking part in the evolution. It is that spark of the Divine Fire that grows behind the mind, vital and physical as the psychic being until it is able to transform the Prakriti of Ignorance into Prakriti of knowledge. These things are not in the Gita, but we cannot limit our knowledge by the points in the Gita.
Current publication:
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.
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