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The Outer Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness of the External Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Modern-day Western psychological researchers are finding that
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  certain portions of the brain are related to higher cognitive
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  functions, logic, reasoning, extrapolation imagination,
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  projection analysis, and classification.
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  While some parts are in charge of the purely mechanical control
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  of things like bodily functions, some are repositories of memory
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  and some are receptors of impulses, from the various
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  senses. Some control motor functions,
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  and other parts are involved in language capabilities, artistic
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  ability, music ability, Etc, In other words, the brain may carry
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  out multiple different functions in different areas.
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  And yet, these are not all truly functions, which we would call
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  mental The use of MRI and other measuring and testing tools
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  available today. Allow scientists to see how
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  various different segments of the brain, react to various
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  types of stimuli or functionality.
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  All of this is part of a new greater understanding that
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  Western psychology is developing.
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  It brings them to the type of knowledge already developed by
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  yoga science Through the Ages and refined organized developed
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  and codified by SRI aurobindo, as he explores yogic psychology.
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  Dr. Dalal observes quote, there are three main parts in the
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  outer or Surface being the mind, the mental, the life nature, the
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  vital, and the body. The physical each part has its
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  own, distinct type of Consciousness, though, in our
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  ordinary awareness. We are unable to distinguish
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  among the mental vital and physical constituents of our
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  Consciousness and tend to regard all these These diverse elements
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  simply as our mind. But in yoga psychology mind,
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  refers specifically to the part of the being, which has to do
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  with cognition, and intelligence with ideas with mental or
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  thought, perceptions the reactions of thoughts to things
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  with the truly mental movements, and formations, according to
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  Sri, aurobindo The vital being or life nature is made up of
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  desires, feelings, instincts, and impulses, the life energy.
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  Which animates the body Prana is an aspect of the vital The body
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  to has its own distinct Consciousness, which operates in
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  the involuntary functionings of the various bodily organs and
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  physiological systems body Consciousness is only part of
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  the physical Consciousness. The latter includes also the
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  physical mind and the physical vital, which will be presently
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  explained. those separate and distinct, the three main
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  divisions of the outer being just mentioned are
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  interconnected and interact on one another giving rise to
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  distinguishable subdivisions in the main parts of the being
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  Thus, besides the thinking mind the Mind proper, there is a
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  vital mind, which is the part of the mind that is intermixed with
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  the vital, the vital mind. Unlike the thinking mind is not
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  governed by reason, but is dominated by impulses and
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  desires of the vital and seeks to justify and rationalize
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  actions which are based on impulses and desires of the
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  vital. Another subdivision is the
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  physical mind, which is the part of the mind that is intermixed
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  with the physical and partakes of the characteristics of the
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  physical Consciousness, such as inertia obscurity, and
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  mechanical repetitiveness, which manifest in the physical mind,
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  as mental, torpor, and conservatism, doubt, and
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  obsessive thoughts. The part of the mind, which is
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  closest to the physical is, Is called The Mechanical Mind.
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  Its characteristic is that of a machine that goes on turning
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  round and round whenever thoughts occur in it.
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  Another subdivision, which is important for self.
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  Understanding, is the physical vital.
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  It is the part of the vital, which is turned in tireli upon
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  physical things, and is full of desires and speakings for
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  pleasure on the physical plane. Closely connected with it is the
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  vital physical, the part of the vital force, which constitutes
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  the nervous being, it is the vehicle of the nervous responses
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  and is related to the reactions desires and sensations of the
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  body. End quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo and the mother, our many selves practical yogic
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  psychology introduction SRI aurobindo on our midi selves.
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  Planes and parts of the being Pages, Roman 21 to 23.