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the changing consciousness, there would be no need of a drastic
dissolution, death would be no longer inevitable.
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The mental and the vital beings of man follow as best they can the
movement of the universal forces, and the stream of the world’s
inner transformation and evolution carries them a certain way;
but the body bound to the law of the most material nature, moves
very slowly. After some years, seventy or eighty, a hundred or two
hundred, — and that is perhaps the maximum, — the dislocation
is so serious that the outer being falls to pieces. The divergence
between the demand and the answer, the increasing inability and
irresponsiveness of the body, brings about the phenomenon of
death. ...
If the whole being could simultaneously advance in its pro-
gressive transformation, keeping pace with the inner march of the
universe, there would be no illness, there would be no death. But
it would have to be literally the whole being integrally from the
highest planes, where it is more plastic and yields in the required
measure to transforming forces, down to the most material, which
is by nature rigid, stationary, refractory to any rapid remoulding
change.
CWM 3: 36-37, 87-90 The Mother

This then is the necessity and justification of
Death, not as a denial of Life,

but as a process of Life...
CWSA 21: 206 Sri Aurobindo

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