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The Physical faculty or part of the being, in Sri Aurobindo 's philosophy, refers not just to the Physical Body , but the body's Consciousness as well. The body is just as conscious as the Vital and Mental parts of the being, only it is a different type of consciousness. One does not find the distinction of non-conscious body and conscious mind that characterises Western thought. A partial analogy might be made with the "Moving Center" of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky 's " Fourth Way " philosophy and cosmology. In Sri Aurobindo's reading of the Taittiriya Upanishad , the physical being (or perhaps just the Physical Purusha) is the ''anna-maya-atma'' - the self made of food. As with the other faculties or principles of the being, in Sri Aurobindo's Integral Psychology the Physical can be subdivided into finer sub-grades, some of which are only described briefly in letters or occasional references elsewhere. These might include:
Like the other principles of Man , the Physical not only shades upwards to higher ontological levels, but also downwards into the Subconscient , which equates to the Subconscious or Lower Unconscious, although Sri Aurobindo asserts that the Subconscient includes much more than the unconscious of ( Freudian ) psychology. And like all the faculties of the being, the Physical in all its aspects has to be transformed and spiritualised through the practice of Integral Yoga . REFERENCE
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