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The Psychic Being Carries the Essence of the Soul's Experience from Life to Life · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We tend to look at things through the standpoint of the
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  external physical being, the body, life and mind with which
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  we identify. From this standpoint, we treat
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  the soul as something that we need to search for, if we even
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  acknowledge the existence of the soul, and as something secondary
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  to and therefore less important than the goals we set for
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  ourselves to live and enjoy the external life.
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  Few are those individuals who look at things differently and
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  see the soul as the primary controller and driver of our
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  lives and the external activities as secondary and
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  subordinate to the soul's intention.
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  We wonder about the meaning of life from the external
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  standpoint. It is difficult to determine why
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  it is we have to be born, grow, struggle through our lives, and
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  then die if there is nothing more.
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  If we shift to the standpoint of the soul, however, we can see
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  that there is a progressive manifestation in which we are
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  participants that extends far beyond the time frame of a
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  single lifetime. The Bhagavad Gita explains
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  quote. The embodied soul casts away old
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  and takes up new bodies as a man changes, worn out.
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  Raymond for new. End Quote from Srioro Bindo
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  Bhagwad Gita and its Message Chapter 2 verse 22.
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  Srioro Bindo comments on chapter 18 verse 47 of the Gita when he
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  states quote the Jiva is in self-expression a portion of the
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  Supreme Spirit. He is in his personality, that
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  power. He brings out in an individual
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  existence the potentialities of the soul of the universe.
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  This Jiva itself is spirit and not the natural ego.
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  The spirit and not the form of ego is our reality and inner
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  soul principle. The spiritual nature which has
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  become this multiple personality in the universe is the basic
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  stuff of our existence. All the rest is lower derivation
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  and outer formation from a highest hidden activity of the
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  spirit. End Quote Bhagavad Gita and its
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  Message, Chapter 18, page 269 Sri Aurobindo Notes Quote What
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  is meant in the terminology of the Yoga by the psychic is the
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  sole element in the nature, the pure psyche or divine nucleus
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  which stands behind mind, life and body.
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  It is not the ego, but of which we are only dimly aware.
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  It is a portion of the Divine and permanent from life to life,
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  taking the experience of life through its outer instruments.
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  As this experience grows, it manifests A developing psychic
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  personality which, insisting always on the good, true and
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  beautiful, finally becomes ready and strong enough to turn the
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  nature towards the Divine. It can then come entirely
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  forward, breaking through the mental, vital and physical
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  screen, govern the instincts and transform the nature.
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  Nature no longer imposes itself on the soul, but the soul, the
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  Purusha, imposes its dictates on the nature.
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  End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindu and the
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  Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission and
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  evolution Section 1. Meaning and Nature of the
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  Psychic Being, Page 4.