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The External Being and the Inner Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Most people identify closely with their active external
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  personality and as a result, they consider that to be the
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  extent of their existence. They live on the surface
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  interact with others Family, Friends, acquaintances,
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  Associates, and other members of society and respond to the outer
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  environment, the weather, the economic, and political
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  conditions, Etc. This constitutes the framework
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  of their lives. Some individuals.
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  However, particularly as they begin to have experiences that
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  show them, that there is another aspect and significance to their
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  lives, find that they can observe this outer life and
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  participate in it yet, feel themselves separate and apart
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  from that existence, they begin to experience an inner life.
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  As these individuals explore the experiences thoughts, emotions
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  and feelings that are associated with this separation, they begin
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  to recognize that the Apparently superficial goals objectives.
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  And purposes of the external life are insufficient to explain
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  either the existence of the universal manifestation or
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  indeed their own lives. In many cases, they have
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  intimations of a long developmental process and
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  evolution of Consciousness in which they have participated in
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  some cases. They have intimations of past
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  lives and experiences that fall outside the framework of the
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  external life they lead. if pursued further the individual
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  either comes in contact with the psychic being the sole, which is
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  a part from the Mind life body that he occupies in this
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  lifetime, or he finds himself achieving a new standpoint of a
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  witness of the nature, free independent and able to observe
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  and eventually direct the outer being free aurobindo notes,
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  quote, There are we may say to beings in us, one on the surface
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  are ordinary exterior, mind life, body Consciousness,
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  another behind the veil. An inner mind, an inner life and
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  inner physical Consciousness, constituting another or inner
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  self. This inner self once a week
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  opens in its turn to our true. Real Eternal self, it opens
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  inwardly to the soul called in the language of this yoga.
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  The psychic being which supports our success of births.
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  And in each birth assumes, a new mind, life and body.
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  It opens above to the self or Spirit, which is unborn.
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  And by conscious recovery of it, we transcend the changing
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  Personality and Achieve freedom and full Mastery over our nature
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  and quote reference SRI, aurobindo, and the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 8,
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  the psychic being and inner growth page 148.