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The Nature and Action of the Psychic Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Sri Robindo describes here the nature and action of the psychic
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  being. The psychic being is developed
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  by the soul to interact with the external being.
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  It gains experience and it gains power as this development
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  occurs. The psychic being develops over
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  many lifetimes and carries the essence of experience, but not
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  the external personality from birth to birth.
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  The prominence of the psychic being and its ability to guide
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  or control the external being and personality is conditioned
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  by the development and maturity of the psychic being in its
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  evolutionary process and the power and dominance exercised by
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  the parts of the external personality.
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  There is a clear distinction between the aggrandizement of
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  the mind, the vital and the body as they pursue their
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  characteristic lines of fulfilment, and the action of
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  the psychic being, which is focused at all times on the
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  manifestation of the divine intention.
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  The Vedic seers identified the ultimate reality as Satyam,
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  Rutam, Brahat, the Truth, the Right, the Vast.
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  The psychic being is ever attuned to manifesting that
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  reality. All that is egoistic, self
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  dealing, desire filled is contrary to the aspiration and
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  intention of the psychic being. As the outer instruments
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  develop, they focus on their own modes of action and try to
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  achieve what they understand to be their purpose and their
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  fulfilment. They are, however, instruments
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  whose powers are being developed, not cognizant of the
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  ultimate role they are intended to play.
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  Once the psychic being comes to the fore trio Rubindo observes
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  quote, the psychic being can at first exercise only a concealed
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  and partial and indirect action through the mind, the life and
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  the body. Since it is these parts of
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  nature that have to be developed as its instruments of
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  self-expression. And it is long confined by their
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  evolution missioned to lead man in the ignorance towards the
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  light of the divine consciousness.
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  It takes the essence of all experience in the ignorance to
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  form a nucleus of soul growth in the nature.
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  The rest it turns into material for the future growth of the
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  instruments which it has to use until they are ready to be a
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  luminous instrumentation of the Divine.
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  It is this secret psychic entity which is the true original
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  conscience in US, deeper than the constructed and conventional
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  conscience of the moralist. For it is this which points
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  always towards truth and right and Beauty, toward love and
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  harmony and all that is a divine possibility in US, and persist
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  till these things become the major need of our nature.
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  It is the psychic personality in US that flowers as the Saint,
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  the sage, the seer. When it reaches its full
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  strength, it turns the being towards the knowledge of Self
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  and the Divine towards the Supreme Truth, the Supreme Good,
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  the Supreme Beauty, love and Bliss, the divine heights and
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  largenesses and opens us to the touch of spiritual sympathy,
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  universality, oneness. On the contrary, where the
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  psychic personality is weak, crude or I'll developed, the
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  inner parts and movements in US are lacking or poor in character
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  and power. Even though the mind may be
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  forceful and brilliant, the heart of vital emotions hard and
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  strong and masterful, the life force dominant and successful,
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  the bodily existence rich and fortunate and an apparent Lord
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  and victor. It is then the outer desire
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  soul, the pseudo psychic entity that reigns and we mistake its
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  misinterpretations of psychic suggestion and aspiration, its
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  ideas and ideals, its desires and yearnings for true soul
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  stuff and wealth of spiritual experience.
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  If the secret psychic person can come forward into the front and
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  replacing the desire soul govern overtly and entirely and not
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  only partially and from behind the veil, this outer nature of
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  mind, life and body, then these can be cast into soul images of
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  what is true, right and beautiful.
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  And in the end the whole nature can be turned towards the real
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  aim of life, the supreme victory, the ascent into
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  spiritual existence. End Quote.
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  Reference Srioro Bindu and the Mother, the psychic being soul,
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  its nature, mission and evolution.
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  Section 1. Meaning and Nature of the
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  Psychic Being, pages 31 to 32.