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The Vital Desire Soul and the True Soul of the Psychic Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Shriurobindo and the Mother make a distinction between the desire
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  soul of the vital nature and the true soul which expresses the
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  inmost being that is a direct spark of the divine.
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  They differ in their focus, orientation, and basis of
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  action. The desire soul incorporates the
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  drives of the external being's vital nature, the desires,
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  emotions, impulsions that lead to the seeker after forms of
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  power, wealth, sex, fame, and the fulfillment of the
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  relationships which the individual has in his outer
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  life, those of family, friends, business associates, etcetera.
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  The Desire Soul is fixed on the fulfillment of the individual's
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  ego, goals, objectives and desires.
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  It is essentially framed by the concepts behind I, me, mine.
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  It is a focus that creates division between the fulfillment
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  of the individual and the potentially conflicting needs or
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  wants of the larger community, and eventually that of the
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  divine intention in the world. The true Soul, on the other
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  hand, is a soul of oneness, identifying itself with the
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  larger divine purpose in the manifestation.
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  It does not put the individual fulfillment of desire as its
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  objective or point of focus. Rather, it is aware of the
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  overall intention and works to carry out that intention and to
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  take into account the other beings, forms, forces that are
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  part of that larger manifestation.
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  It is a soul of harmony and a soul of insight into the
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  significance of the world and its own role in the development
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  of which the world is a part of the much larger universal
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  creation. It does not act from personal
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  desire, but from aspiration, from consecration, from
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  surrender of its own individual fulfillment to the larger
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  universal fulfillment. Triorobindo writes, quote.
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  All or most of the works of life are at present or seem to be
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  actuated or vitiated by the soul of desire.
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  Even those that are ethical or religious, even those that where
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  the guise of altruism, philanthropy, self sacrifice,
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  self denial are shot through and through with the threads of its
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  making. This soul of desire is a
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  separate soul of ego, and all its instincts are for a separate
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  of self affirmation. It pushes always openly or under
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  more or less shining masks for its own growth, for possession,
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  for enjoyment, for conquest and empire.
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  End Quote from the synthesis of Yoga.
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  A disciple inquires sweet mother what is the soul of desire?
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  The mother responds quote It is what makes you live, act, move,
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  soul. The word for soul in French amme
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  comes from a word which means to animate.
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  It is what gives life to the body.
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  If you didn't have it, you would be inert matter, something like
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  stones or plants. Not altogether inert, but
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  vegetative. Some people say that without
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  desires, that is without this soul of desire, there would
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  never have been any progress in ordinary life.
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  It is something very useful. But when one decides to do yoga
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  to find the divine, it becomes a little cumbersome.
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  End Quote Reference Srioro Bindu and the Mother Our Many Selves.
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  Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 2, Planes and Parts of
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  the Being, pages 27 to 28.