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The Desire Soul, the True Soul and the Knowledge of the Heart · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Sri Rubindo points out that man, the mental being, is actually a
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  transitional being. The development of the mental
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  powers represents quite a considerable leap from the pure
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  vital powers and rudimentary mind found in the animal
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  Kingdom. Nevertheless, even a cursory
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  examination shows us that the mental being, even at its
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  highest and most powerful level of development, cannot possibly
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  be the final term in the evolutionary cycle, as we can
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  recognize serious limitations and failures of the mental
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  consciousness, which clearly cannot be solved by simply
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  enhancing the mental development.
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  The issues lie primarily in several directions. 1st the mind
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  remains very much influenced or even we may say controlled by
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  the vital force of the being. In most human beings, the
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  element of the vital and its influence on the mental power is
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  which Rio Robindo describes as the desire soul and its action
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  in the being. This energetic action represents
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  what most people believe constitutes the soul that
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  animates our lives and our responses.
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  Second, the mental power itself tends towards very limited step
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  by step logical development that seems to try to reduce
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  everything to trenchant black and white dichotomies.
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  This limitation leads to inaccurate judgment, biases
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  uninformed opinions, and essentially contributes to the
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  power that the vital nature holds over the mind.
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  Beyond the formation of the human being, the mental vital
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  physical complex that we recognize and accept as being
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  human, the next stage of the evolution of consciousness is in
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  the process of unfolding. This process is A2 fold process
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  of the pressure from the Universal Divine Force to
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  manifest it and the opening within our nature of the
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  aspiring and receptive element which can respond to this Divine
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  pressure. This is the true soul deep
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  within that by being one with the Divine is able to open to
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  the intention of the Divine. Sri are open to observes.
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  Quote this ambiguity. These opposing appearances of
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  depth and blindness are created by the double character of the
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  human emotive being. For there is in front in men a
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  heart of vital emotions similar to the animals, if more
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  variously developed. Its emotions are governed by
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  egoistic passion, blind instinctive affections, and all
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  the play of the life. Impulses with their
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  imperfections, perversions, often sordid degradations, heart
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  besieged and given over to the lusts, desires, wraths, intense
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  or fierce demands, or little greeds and mean pettiness, is of
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  an obscure and fallen life force, and debased by its
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  slavery to any and every impulse.
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  This mixture of the emotive heart and the sensational,
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  hungering vital creates in man a false soul of desire.
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  It is this that is the crude and dangerous element which the
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  reason rightly distrusts and feels a need to control, even
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  though the actual control, or rather coercion it succeeds in
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  establishing over our raw and insistent vital nature, remains
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  always very uncertain and deceptive.
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  But the true soul of man is not there.
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  It is in the true invisible heart, hidden in some luminous
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  cave of the nature. There, under some infiltration
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  of the Divine Light, is our soul, a silent inmost being of
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  which few are even aware, for of all have a soul, few are
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  conscious of their true soul or feel its direct impulse.
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  There dwells the little spark of the Divine which supports this
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  obscure mass of our nature, and around it grows the psychic
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  being, the formed soul, or the real man within us.
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  It is as this psychic being in him grows, and the movement of
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  the heart reflect its divinations and impulsions, that
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  man becomes more and more aware of his soul ceases to be a
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  superior animal. An awakening to glimpses of the
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  Godhead within him admits more and more its intimations of a
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  deeper life and consciousness and an impulse towards things
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  divine. It is one of the decisive
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  moments of the Integral Yoga, when this psychic being
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  liberated, brought out from the veil to the front, can pour the
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  full flood of its divinations, seeings and impulsions on the
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  mind, life and body of man and begin to prepare the upbuilding
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  of divinity in the earthly nature.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Orobindo and the
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  Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission and
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  evolution. Section 1.
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  Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being, pages 27 to 28.