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Distinguishing Soul from Vital Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The lack of experience and recognition of the action of the
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  soul makes it difficult for most people to understand the reality
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  of the soul. For this reason people tend to
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  confuse the true soul with the vital soul of desire, which Rio
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  Robindo calls the Desire Soul. This is an expression of the
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  vital being and is seen as passionate, sensuous and desire
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  filled. The vital connection felt
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  between two individuals clues us in to how people tend to
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  identify a soulmate. Because people generally
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  identify with and live on the surface of their being.
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  For the most part, anything identified as soul turns out to
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  be related to the feeling we experience in our vital nature.
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  The soul itself is not attached to the experiences of the
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  external beings per SE. Soul experience relates to the
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  connection between the soul and the Divine in the form of
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  aspiration, devotion, consecration, and surrender
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  through increased receptivity to the spiritual principle and
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  action. A disciple asks, Are the soul
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  and the psychic being one and the same thing?
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  The Mother responds quote. That depends on the definition
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  you give to the words. In most religions, and perhaps
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  in most philosophies also, it is the vital being which is called
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  soul, for it is said that the soul leaves the body, while it
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  is the vital being which leaves the body.
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  One speaks of saving the soul, wicked souls, redeeming the
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  soul, but all that applies to the vital being.
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  For the psychic being has no need to be saved.
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  It does not share the faults of the external person.
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  It is free from all reaction. End Quote.
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  Reference Srioro Bindu and the Mother.
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  The psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution.
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  Section 1. Meaning and nature of the
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  psychic being. Page 9.