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Contending With the Multitude of Beings That Exist Within Each Individual · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Almost everyone has the experience from time to time of
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  acting out a different personality.
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  We may say that someone got out of bed on the wrong side.
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  This morning when we see a normally cheerful and upbeat
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  individual responding in a totally uncharacteristic way.
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  We chalk this up to some mood or temporary circumstance, stress
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  sleeplessness. Worried or some physical
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  condition, or imbalance, or even some mental focus that distracts
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  we have times of intense, mental focus or emotionally-charged
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  aspects to our lives or times of vital or physical challenges
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  that impact the way we respond to life.
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  If we observe closely, we can see that the changes we undergo
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  are based on the variable effect of the Dominance and
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  modifications, brought about by the three gunas, the qualities
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  of nature impacting. The current aspect of the being
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  that is in front. Whether mental, vital or
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  physical, if we look, even more closely, we find that the mental
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  being the emotional, being the vital being and the physical
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  being are not unified, and that there are different aspects that
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  come forward. Even Within These segments, then
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  we have to examine the interaction of the different
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  aspects. Such that there is a current
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  predominant physical being combined with the current
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  predominant vital or mental being the possible combinations.
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  Here are virtually endless. The mother concludes that those
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  who have developed a highly developed individuality
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  represent an amalgam of innumerable person.
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  Mallet. He's and by no means are they
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  all unified thus leading to Inner conflict or at least
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  modification of the pure action of any one aspect of the being
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  the process of observing understanding and unifying the
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  being around a central focus. And goal is for such
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  individuals, a difficult and lengthy one.
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  Those who have a less complex in her life are able to deal with
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  their lives in a much simpler and easier manner.
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  SRI aurobindo writes, quote. It is part of the foundation of
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  yoga to become conscious of the great complexity of our nature,
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  see the different forces, that move it, and get over it.
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  A control of directing knowledge.
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  A disciple inquires, quote, are these forces different for each
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  person? The mother responds.
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  Quote, yes, the composition is completely different.
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  Otherwise everybody would be the same.
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  There are not two beings with an identical combination between
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  the different parts of the being and the composition of these
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  parts. The proportion is different.
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  In each individual, there are people primitive men.
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  People like the yet undeveloped races or the degenerated ones
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  whose combinations are. Fairly simple.
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  They are still complicated. But comparatively simple.
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  And there are people absolutely at the top of the human ladder
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  that Elite of humanity, their combinations become.
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  So complicated that a very special discernment is needed to
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  find the relations between all these things.
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  There are beings, who carry in themselves, thousands of
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  different personalities. And then each one has its own
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  Rhythm and alternation and there is a kind of combination
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  sometimes their inner conflicts and there is a play of
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  activities which are rhythmic and with alternations of certain
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  parts which come to the front and then go back and again come
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  to the front but when one takes all that it makes such
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  complicated Combinations. That some people Truly find, it
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  difficult to understand what is going on in themselves and yet
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  these are the ones most capable of a complete coordinated
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  conscious organized action. But their organization is
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  infinitely more complicated than that of primitive or undeveloped
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  men who have two or three, impulses and four or five ideas
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  and who can arrange all this. Easily in themselves and seem to
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  be very coordinated and logical because there is not very much
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  too organized. But there are people truly like
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  a multitude and so that gives them a plasticity, a fluidity of
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  action and an extraordinary complexity of perception.
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  And these people are capable of understanding a considerable
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  number of things as though they had at their disposal a
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  veritable Army, which they move according to circumstance and
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  need and all this is inside them.
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  So when these people with the help of yoga, the discipline of
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  yoga succeed in centralizing, all these beings around the
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  central light of the divine presence, they become powerful
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  entities precisely because of their complexity.
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  So long as this is not organized, they often give the
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  impression of an incoherent. They are almost incomprehensible
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  one can't manage to understand. They are like that, they are so
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  complex. But when they have organized,
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  all these beings that is put each one in its place around the
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  Divine Center, then truly, they are terrific for.
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  They have the capacity of understanding almost everything
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  and doing almost everything because of the multitude of
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  entities, they contain of, which they are constituted.
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  And the nearer one is to the Emmett of the ladder, the more
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  is it like that? And consequently the more
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  difficult is it to organize ones being because when you have
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  about a dozen elements, you can quickly compass and organize
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  them. But when you have thousands of
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  them, it is difficult and quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the
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  mother, our many selves practical yogic psychology
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  chapter 1 Our manifold being pages to 24.