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The Value of Attaining the Standpoint of the Witness Consciousness in Understanding the Complexity of Interaction of the Parts of the Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It has been famously stated that we cannot understand the system
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  within which we are acting until we can shift our View to a
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  standpoint outside that frame. As long as we are immersed,
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  within any particular system or standpoint.
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  We are locked into the Viewpoint and understanding embedded
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  within that frame and our ability to perceive and fully
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  appreciate the forces acting upon us is both severely limited
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  and extremely biased. To become the Observer of the
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  external nature. Therefore, is a prerequisite for
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  attaining. Both self-knowledge and
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  self-mastery. Sankhya philosophy understood
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  these limitations and therefore set forth a method of
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  understanding that separated the witness Consciousness, purusha
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  from the active nature, proximity.
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  As we learn how to shift the standpoint to that of the
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  witness free and separate from the actions of the nature.
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  We can begin to see the gears turning and the forces moving in
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  acting and interacting to create. we know of, as our
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  external being At a certain point, we begin to gain the
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  ability to actually untangle the convoluted and intertwine
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  threads of impulsion and action within us.
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  And at that point, we can see and eventually leverage this
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  knowledge to act upon the parts and aspects of the outer nature.
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  Dr. Dalal notes, quote real self knowledge begins, when a
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  separation takes place between purusa and prakruti between the
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  self and its outer nature. Then we perceive as SRI
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  aurobindo States. The extraordinary complexity of
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  our own being the stimulating but also embarrassing
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  multiplicity of our personality. The rich endless confusion of
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  nature. Dr. Dalal continues.
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  We also perceive that the numerous personalities which are
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  mixed up on the surface are separate and distinct when
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  viewed from within each personality, represents a part
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  of the being, which has its own complex, individuality and
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  different nature. Its own demands agreeing neither
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  with itself, nor with the others, Speaking of the
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  perfectly normal to visibility of the different parts of the
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  being SRI aurobindo States. In the outer surface nature,
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  mind psychic, vital physical are all jumbled together and it
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  needs a strong power of introspection and self-analysis
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  close observation, and disentanglement of the threads
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  of thought feeling, and impulse to find out the composition of
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  our nature and the relation and interaction of these parts upon
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  each other. But when one goes inside, we
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  find the sources of all this surface action and they're the
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  parts of our being are quite separate and clearly distinct
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  from each other. We feel them indeed as different
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  beings in us and just as two people in a joint action can do,
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  they too are seen to observe criticized help or oppose and
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  restrain each other. It is as if we were a group
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  being each member of the group with its separate place and
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  function and all directed by a central being who is sometimes
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  in front above the others, Behind the scenes.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother, our
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  many selves practical yogic psychology introduction.
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  SRI aurobindo on our many selves planes and parts of the being
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  Pages. Roman 18 to Roman 19.