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The Psychic Being and Its Relation to the External Nature · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The newborn child has a mind, but it is not yet fully focused,
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  awakened, and in control of the sensory instruments.
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  Over time, as the child grows and matures, he can gain more
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  precise control over his senses and his powers of action, and
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  eventually the mind matures, can be trained and developed, and
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  comes into its own with powers far exceeding those that were
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  evident in the newborn child. The powers were latent,
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  undeveloped and immature, and their ability to act was thereby
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  very much circumscribed. We can look at this as a
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  framework for understanding the growth and development of the
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  psychic being and its influence and increasing mastery over the
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  external instruments of the body, life and mind.
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  Once it gains a measure of strength, it begins to project
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  its influence more completely and more effectively on the
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  outer instruments, and instead of being veiled by their normal
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  lines of action, it begins to direct the action.
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  Shrioro Bindo notes quote In the ordinary consciousness in which
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  the mind, etcetera are not awakened, the psychic acts as
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  well as it can through them. But according to the laws of the
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  ignorance. The psychic being is there in
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  all, but in very few is it well developed, well built up in the
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  consciousness, or prominent in the front.
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  In mind it is veiled, often ineffective or only an
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  influence, not conscious enough or strong enough to support the
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  spiritual life. End Quote Reference Sri
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  aurobindo and the Mother the psychic being soul, its nature,
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  mission and evolution Section 2 Role, function and action of the
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  psychic page 56.