Latest / Sri Aurobindo Studies / The Development of the Psychic Being

Transcript

The Development of the Psychic Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

• 0:01
  We can identify a systematic evolution of Consciousness in
• 0:05
  the external World Life evolves out of matter.
• 0:09
  Mind out of life, we do not however, thereby determine
• 0:14
  either a significance or purpose to this Evolution.
• 0:18
  Nor any causative factors that involve mind and life into
• 0:23
  matter, such that they can eventually manifest out.
• 0:28
  We also do not discern their by any purpose for our individual
• 0:33
  life, and conscious awareness and our aspiration for growth
• 0:37
  development. And increase of knowledge looked
• 0:42
  at from the Viewpoint of the individual ego personality, our
• 0:46
  lives are short unpredictable and have a defined beginning and
• 0:51
  a defined ending with no visibility of either.
• 0:55
  What precedes our birth or what? Traits, after our death.
• 1:02
  Seers and Mystics philosophers. And those who have experienced
• 1:06
  deeper spiritual experiences from Traditions, all around the
• 1:11
  world. Have addressed these issues Some
• 1:14
  traditions, which positive first Creator principle, then create a
• 1:19
  heaven or hell to which the spirit embodied in the
• 1:22
  individual proceeds after death. Some talk about resurrection,
• 1:27
  and rejoining one's current family in some afterlife.
• 1:31
  Presumably in a remade younger, and healthier body than the one
• 1:35
  from which the individual departed.
• 1:39
  While there are obvious issues with this Viewpoint, it is part
• 1:43
  of a Continuum of efforts to understand and develop some form
• 1:47
  of meaning to our existence in this lifetime.
• 1:52
  Other approaches describe a series of births and ascending
• 1:55
  growth of Consciousness. Over time.
• 1:58
  Transcending, the individual Lifetime and indeed tying
• 2:04
  lifetimes together, not from the Viewpoint of the ego personality
• 2:08
  of our current life. But from the greater
• 2:11
  Consciousness that takes birth, successively from life to life,
• 2:16
  and which embodies the purpose of the universal manifestation,
• 2:21
  Such an approach gains Credence. As we experienced in some cases,
• 2:26
  active recollection of a past lifetime.
• 2:30
  Although, this is rare since the mechanism, generally does not
• 2:33
  hold onto individual lifetimes in their detail, or at least a
• 2:38
  feeling or sense of familiarity or relationship to some person
• 2:43
  place or event. Whatever the experience.
• 2:48
  However, it soon becomes clear that there is a hidden mechanism
• 2:51
  or power that is manifesting the universal creation, which
• 2:55
  embodies through this creation, a Consciousness that Embraces
• 3:01
  includes and permeates all and which works out over vast spans
• 3:06
  of time, far beyond that of an individual human lifetime.
• 3:11
  The continuity of individual development, then it's brought
• 3:14
  about through a conscious participation of a, Divine
• 3:18
  element in each being, which we aurobindo calls the psychic
• 3:23
  element or Soul element, as it gathers experience.
• 3:29
  And as the evolution of Consciousness takes, place it
• 3:33
  becomes more aware more conscious and is thus able to
• 3:38
  participate actively in its own development.
• 3:42
  SRI, aurobindo observes, quote, as the evolution proceeds.
• 3:47
  Nature begins slowly and tentatively to manifest our
• 3:51
  occult Parts. She leads us to look more and
• 3:54
  more within ourselves, or sets out to initiate more clearly,
• 3:59
  recognizable intimations and formations of them on the
• 4:03
  surface. The soul in us, the psychic
• 4:06
  principal has already begun to take secret form.
• 4:11
  It puts forward and develops, a soul personality, a distinct
• 4:16
  psychic being to represent it. The psychic part of us is
• 4:21
  something that comes direct from the Divine and is in touch with
• 4:24
  the divine And its origin. It is the nucleus pregnant with
• 4:29
  divine possibilities that support this lower triple
• 4:32
  manifestation of Mind, life and body.
• 4:36
  There is this Divine element in all living beings, but it stands
• 4:41
  behind the ordinary Consciousness is not at first
• 4:45
  developed. And even when developed is not
• 4:48
  always, or often in the front, it expresses itself so far as
• 4:54
  the imperfection of the instrument, Browse by their
• 4:58
  means and under their limitations.
• 5:01
  It grows in the Consciousness by God word experience gaining
• 5:06
  strength. Every time there is a higher
• 5:08
  movement in us and finally by the accumulation of these deeper
• 5:13
  and higher movements, there's developed a psychic
• 5:16
  individuality that which we call usually the psychic being And
• 5:22
  quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother growing within
• 5:28
  the psychology of inner development, introduction Pages,
• 5:32
  Roman 17 to Roman 80.