From: verma@pfeast.enet.dec.com (Virendra Verma)
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Subject: The Significance of Arya - 3/3
Date: 30 Dec 92 03:53:23 GMT
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	Arya - its Significance Part 3/3

>From - The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings by Sri Aurobindo.
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... Self-perfection is the aim of his self-conquest. Therefore, what he
conquers he does not destroy, but ennobles and fulfils. He knows that the
body, life and mind are given him in order to attain to something higher
than they; therefore they must be transcended and overcome, their limitations
denied, the absorption of their gratifications rejected. But he knows also
that the Highest is something which is no nullity in the world, but
increasingly expresses itself here, - a divine Will, Consciousness, Love,
Beatitude which pours itself out, when found, through the terms of the
lower life on the finder and on all in his environment that is caoable of
receiving it. Of that he is the servant, lover and seeker. When it is
attained, he pours it forth in work, love, joy and knowledge upon mankind.
For always the Aryan is a worker and warrior. He spares himself no labour
of mind or body whether to seek the Highest or to serve it. He avoids no
difficulty, he accepts no cessation from fatigue. Always he fights for the
coming of that kingdom within himself and in the world.

The Aryan perfected is the Arhat. There is a transcendent Consciousness
which surpasses the universe and of which all these worlds are only a side-issue
and a by-play. To that consciousness he aspires and attains. There is a
Consciousness which, being transcendent, is yet the universe and all that the
universe contains. Into that consciousness he enlarges his limited ego;
he becomes one with all beings and all inanimate objects in a single
self-awareness, love, delight, all-embracing energy. There is a consciousness
which, being both transcendental and universal, yet accepts the apparent
limitations of individuality for work, for various standpoints of knowledge,
for the play of the Lord with His creations; for the ego is there that it may
finally convert itself into a free centre of the divine work and the divine
play. That consciousness too he has sufficient love, joy and knowledge to
accept; he is puissant enough to effect that conversion. To embrace
individuality after transcending it is the last and divine sacrifice. The
perfect Arhat is he who is able to live simultaneously in all these three
apparent states of existence, elevate the lower into the higher, receive
the higher into the lower, so that he may represent perfectly in the
symbols of the world that with he is identified in all parts of his
being, - the triple and triune Brahman.

namaste,

-- Virendra Verma
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