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Self-Conception of Man
- Man has been moving from the physical to the spiritual.
- This has been perceived as moving away from drudgery to enjoy collective life of mental leisure that develop culture.
- This movement is seen in his development of productivity and the organisation of social existence.
- Moving from hunting to agriculture to trade and commerce was the movement of productivity.
- From nomadic life, he moved into settlements, developed leadership and monarchy which is now changing into democracy.
- This has been the development of the Individual or emancipation of the mental, spiritual individual from the physical, social individual.
- Protestantism and Communism have been great phases of this movement.
- Protestantism marked the emergence of the spiritual individual whose political expression was democracy.
- Communism announced to the world the economic equality of man and the withering of the state.
- The aim of economic equality has resulted in greater individual productivity and higher welfare. The goal of withering away of the State is now seen in the fact that national governments are now functional and administrative.
- The Gita announced to the world thousands of years ago that man can become what he aspires for.
- These have been the psychological, social, and spiritual ideals as embodied in Protestantism, Communism and Spirituality.
- While man's life is really moved by the subliminal that is universal, he lives on the surface in a reverse fashion.
- This reverse relationship between the surface and the subliminal is seen as the society determining the man instead of his shaping the society's form and future.
- Sri Aurobindo's call for spiritual evolution of Man reverses this order. Man, responding to that, can shape his society.
- Creation is God's self-conception.
- Human life, which, in truth, is man's self-conception, now is seen as social self-conception.
- A secret is being revealed to Man when he discovers that the social self-conception is made possible by his own Self-conception. By voluntarily submitting himself to social self-conception, man passes on his spiritual right to the society he lives in.
- When he realises it in the collective or as a representative of the collective, the Supramental Being is born.
- Realising it in his own individual self, he becomes the most successful individual in the society today.
- The process of that change is implicitly in existence in the process of his growth, especially when the growth is phenomenal.
- The Life Divine gives the theoretical explanation of that process as Process of Creation.
- It can be practically seen, its steps enumerated in our daily life. It is transparently seen when the growth or the rate of growth is phenomenal.
- One can see that process as yogic knowledge if he shifts the centre of his life from outside to inside. Shifting the calling inside will enable one to see the spiritual process. Reading The Life Divine offers the intellectual steps of an intuitional process. By selling phenomenally or engaging in a wide work, one can see that process practically.
- Each has its own dividends in yoga, intellectuality or business.
- Man can combine them all for his higher benefit. It combines itself into an extent as a natural process.
- In human language, man's life is his own self-conception.
- Man is the master of destiny; he can make himself into whatever he chooses.
- One in business can grow to any extent if he chooses to shed the narrow attitudes of human life and adopts the higher views of Mother's Life.
