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Rebirth-A Philosophical Study
separate existence comes to him As a result the body la formed and cosclousness of a separate ego and through it the individual sell can develop Staelf and maintala Its relation with the Cosmic spirit. Through it only the individual can receive its unity with God and get rid of its sepanteneu and ego consciousness But this truth cannot be an isolated phenomena Jt must be followed by rebirth and that by another rebirth and so on This succession of births will stop with the emergence of the Supermod Tbere the isolation of the individual soul with the Spirit comes to an end
According to Shri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Integraliam, Immortality can be considered in three aspects () the psychic (11) the spiritual and (lui) the material The spirit in its transcendental aspect is Brahmma, in the Universal aspect 18 Isvara and lo the individual aspect is the Jirdim. The spirit in all these aspects is immortal 10 the sense of non-lemporal This is the spiritual immortality, as it does not connote persistance in time, but a sort of ineffablo timeless being There is also something la mia which survives death and carries bim along the road of gradual spirtual development This element is called a psychic belog which is the highest representative of the jipalman in man The persistance of the psychic belog through birth and death is called psychic immortallty The eternity of the spirit assumes the forms of Immortal existence ensuing through a long succession of births The empirical self steadily advances through the succession of birth towards the timeless perception that belongs to the transcendental ipurit Shri Aurobindo points out, that it is a psychic being that survives the death of the body and then goes to the psychlo plane for a thorough rearrangement of the past experiences and the final determination of the next birth. "I the psychic being that descends into the evolution of the empirical se evolves with it, suslains and secretly guides from within the physical, Vital and mental elemeots of its nature and serves as the central representative within the evolving empirical self of the transceаdental Individuel Self As the spark of the Divine in the evolving creature, the psychic being candy guides the individual through the long succession of births towards the 109liaation of the transcendental Self as an elernal portion of the Divise Being and as a centre of the working of the Divine faktu,"7
During my discussion with Padmashree Dr Beadro, the conen Karnada poet, on the problem of Rebirth, Dr Bendre suggested that the term rebirth is not appropriate It is better to use 'Ac# incarnation,' as the old self is not bora in its old form It is in the process of evolution towards the Transcendental Spirit It would not be correct to look at the problem of rebirth as a process of doling out punishments and rewards, as an act
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Shri Aurobindo, The Problem of Rebirth
Sagaficance of Rebirth
