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Mystery and Excellence 

of the 

Human Body

This book is the result of the cooperation of the following members of the research teams of the Sri Aurobindo International  Institute of Educational Research, Auroville:

Alain Antoine, Alain Bernard, Arjun Puri, Aryamani, Ashatit,  Christine Devin, Deepti Tiwari, Frederick, Patricia Greer, Jivatman,  Jyoti Madhok, Pala, Sanjeev Aggarwal, Sharanam, Serge Brelin

General Editor: KIREET JOSHI

We are grateful to many individuals in and outside Auroville  who, besides the above mentioned researchers and general editor,  have introduced us to various essays which are included in full or  in parts in this experimental compilation.  We also thank photographers in and outside Auroville who have  given us some of their works. We would like to mention in particular Olivier Barot, Francois Gautier, Pavitra and Frederic Soltan.  Our gratitude also goes to Bob from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram  Archives who gave us digitalised photos of Mother. 

The Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR) acknowledges with gratefulness the labor of research and editing of the  team of researchers of the Sri Aurobindo International Institute of  Educational Research, Auroville.

Printed in Auroville Press, 2003

Mystery and Excellence 

of the 

Human Body

An Exploration

General Editor: KIREET JOSHI

Birth is the first spiritual mystery of the  physical universe, death is the second  which gives its double point of perplexity to the mystery of birth; for life, which  would otherwise be a self-evident fact of existence, becomes itself a mystery by virtue of  these two which seem to be its beginning and  its end and yet in a thousand ways betray  themselves as neither of these things, but  rather intermediate stages in an occult  processus of life.

— Sri Aurobindo