APPENDIX- I

Sree Aurobindo’s classification of Jiva’s Consciousness

in the Evolution Cycle

                                     (From Bottom Upward)

Spiritual- Spiritual- Spiritual (Great Sages and Saints*).

                  Spiritual- Mental (Psychic)- Some Sadhus*

                  Spiritual- Ethereal (Pranic) Swamis and Teachers*

                  Spiritual- Physical (Advanced Spiritual Aspirants*)

Mental-   Mental- Spiritual (Spiritual Aspirants/Sadhakas*)

                 Mental- Mental (All Humans like Scientists* are at this level now)

                 Mental- Ethereal (Advanced Primates* are at this stage)

                 Mental- Physical (Monkeys* are at this stage)

Ethereal- Ethereal- Spiritual (All animals, birds* worshiped by man)

                 Ethereal- Mental (Quadrupeds and bipeds-animals)

                 Ethereal- Ethereal (Lower animals)

                 Ethereal- Physical (like earthworms and reptiles)

Physical- Physical- Spiritual (All Higher Plants worshiped by man)

                  Physical- Mental

                  Physical- Ethereal

                  Physical- Physical (Early Life-forms*).

     [See Sat Prem: Adventure in Consiousness, Pondicherry].

·        Approximations given by the author. These are available within the human body as prajnya chakras, plexus of consciousness ranging from Muladhara (bottom) through svadhishthana (below navel), Manipur (at navel), anahata (heart), vishuddhi (neck), ajnya (forehead) and sahasrar (above the head).