possibility of saving the soul from laya. Is all this correct?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1. 1933-34
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Sri Aurobindo — Doshi, Nagin
1933 (1933-34)
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The old impulse will remain if the sadhaka himself does not abide with the will of the Super-mind. And the Supramentalisation can never be achieved unless he accepts the personal aspect of the Divine. It is the personal aspect that creates the possibility of saving the soul from laya. Is all this correct?
No. The impulse towards laya is a creation of the mind, it is not the sole possible destiny of the soul. When the mind tries to abolish its own ignorance, it finds no escape from it except laya
, because it supposes that there is no higher principle of cosmic existence beyond itself – beyond itself is only the pure Spirit, the absolute impersonal Divine. Those who go through the heart (love, bhakti) do not accept laya, they believe in a state beyond of eternal companionship with the Divine or dwelling in the Divine without laya. All this quite apart from supramentalisation. What then becomes of your starting-point that laya is the inevitable destiny of the soul and it is only the personal descent of the Avatar that saves it from inevitable laya?
1 SABCL, volume 22: except by laya
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