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Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo
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we live with a shape and mental formation of ourselves, which we call our ego or our personality.
Aurobindo points out that we must have to note that even in mind and even in its phenomenon of a conscious will, Karma is the first law and there cannot be for us a complete freedom. There is no such thing as a mental will which is absolutely free. The reason therefor is that mind is a part of the action and also of the outward Ignorance, but does not possess its full light and power. It can be conceived of self and spirit and infinity and reflect them. “An ignorance cannot be permitted to have, even if in its nature it could have, free mastery."24
When we get away from the mind into the life of the spirit, from personality to the person, from Nature ot the lord of Nature, a real freedom may be attained. The first liberty is a passive power. It is of the nature of the ascent. It is an observing and essential liberty in which the active part of the being is an instrument of the supreme spirit and its universal action. But the ascent is to the will of the spirit and not to the mechanical force of Nature. And the freedom of the spirit's light and purity are thrown on the mind. And then evolves the clear detached ascent to the divine working.
For Aurobindo, to have freedom of power, one must not only get back from mind, but must stand in his thought and will even, above the levels of morality. Spiritual consciousness is in our supra-mental ranges. When the soul is one with the supreine and with the universal, not only in essence of consciousness and spiritual truth of being, when it enjoys an initiating and relating truth of spiritual will and knowledge and the soul's overflowing delight in God and existence, when it is admitted to the spirit's fullness ascent to self and its creative liberty, its strain of an eternal joy in self-existence and self-manifestation, Karma itself becomes a rhythm of freedom and birth a strain of immortality.
“Sambhutvā amstam asnute", by birth he enjoys immortality.""25
Immortality of Soul and the Law of Karma
The Law of Karma is closely connected with the concept of
