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\nAPPENDIX<\/span><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span> \n<\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n(In
\nDecember <\/span><\/i>1935, a sadhak
\nhad asked Sri Aurobindo a question regarding a passage in Ch. II of <\/i>Rebirth
\nand Karma <\/span>\u2014 the title under
\nwhich the series of articles in Section One of this book were first published in
\nthe <\/i>Arya. This question along with Sri Aurobindo<\/i>\u2019s answer to it
\nis shown below.)<\/p>\n

<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

           
\n<\/span><\/i>Q: In Chapter II, \u201cThe
\nReincarnating Soul\u201d, of Rebirth and Karma <\/i>it is stated:<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

           
\n<\/span>\u201cWe have, in fact, an immutable Self, a real Person, lord of this
\never-changing personality which, again, assumes ever-changing bodies, but the
\nreal Self knows itself always as above the mutation, watches and enjoys it, but
\nis not involved in it. Through what does it enjoy the changes and feel them to
\nbe its own, even while knowing itself to be unaffected by them? The mind and
\nego-sense are only inferior instruments; there must be some more essential form
\nof itself which the Real Man puts forth, puts in front of itself, as it were,
\nand at the back of the changings to support and mirror them without being
\nactually changed by them. This more essential form is the mental being or mental
\nperson which the Upanishads speak of as the mental leader of the life and body, manomayah
\npr<\/i><\/span>\u00e3na-sar<\/span>\u00eera-net<\/span>\u00e3.
\n<\/span><\/i>It is that which maintains
\nthe ego-sense as a function in the mind and enables us to have the firm
\nconception of continuous identity in Time as opposed to the timeless identity of
\nthe Self.<\/span> \u201d <\/span>(<\/span>Pp.
\n93-94)<\/span><\/p>\n

        
\n<\/span>In this passage I find that it
\nis \u201cthe mental being\u201d which is put forth from life to life and that it is
\nthe reincarnating soul. But would not the mental being be a part of the
\npersonality<\/span> \u2014 the mental,
\nnervous and physical composite <\/span>\u2014
\nwhich in the popular conception is the thing that is carried over or which takes
\na new body in next life? And the \u201cSelf\u201d in this passage is quite <\/span>different
\nfrom \u201cthe mental being\u201d \u2014 that
\nmeans the mental <\/span>being is yet another kind of \u201cself\u201d. Is \u201cthe
\nmental being\u201d then the same as \u201cthe psychic being\u201d which is carried over
\nto the next life?<\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>A: The mental being spoken of by the Upanishad is not part of the mental
\nnervous physical composite<\/span> \u2014 it
\nis the manomaya purusa pr<\/i><\/span>\u00e3na-sar<\/span>\u00eera-net<\/span>\u00e3,
\n<\/span><\/i>the mental being leader of
\nthe life and body. It could not be so described if it were part of the
\ncomposite. Nor can the composite or part of it be the Purusha, <\/span>\u2014
\nfor the composite is composed of Prakriti. It is described as manomaya <\/i>by
\nthe Upanishads because the psychic being is behind the veil and man being the
\nmental being in the life and body lives in his mind and not in his psychic, so
\nto him the manomaya purusa <\/i>is the leader of the life and body,<\/span> \u2014
\nof the psychic behind supporting the
\nwhole he is not aware or dimly aware in his best moments. The psychic is
\nrepresented in man by the Prime Minister, the manomaya, <\/i>itself being a
\nmild constitutional king; it is the manomaya <\/i>to whom Prakriti refers for
\nassent to her actions. But still the statement of the Upanishads gives only the
\napparent truth of the matter, valid for man and the human stage only<\/span> \u2014 for
\nin the animal it would be rather the pr<\/i><\/span>\u00e3namaya
\npurusa <\/span><\/i>that is the net<\/i><\/span>\u00e3,
\n<\/span><\/i>leader of mind and body. It
\nis one reason why I have not yet allowed the publication of Rebirth and Karma
\n<\/i>because this had to be corrected and the deeper truth put in its place. I
\nhad intended to do it later on, but had no time to finish the remaining
\narticles.<\/span><\/p>\n

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