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Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology — Introduction · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We tend to believe that we are a single consistent and harmonized
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  individuality personality character.
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  For the most part, we are not self reflective enough to
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  recognize the inconsistencies and inner conflicts that take
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  place within the being due to different drives needs desires
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  and thoughts. Pulling us in different
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  directions. This view, makes it difficult if
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  not impossible to effectuate real change in the nature.
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  To the extent that we recognize that there are multiple cells
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  possible for an individual. We tend to relegate this to an
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  extreme category of psychological imbalance, which
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  we call multiple personality disorder.
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  In fact, every individual has a number of different selves that
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  find among themselves. A rough form of balance with one
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  in ascendant at one point in time.
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  And another at another point in time.
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  For those individuals who wish to gain Mastery over their
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  nature, who are following spiritual Pursuits, who are
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  seeking to participate consciously in the evolution of
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  consciousness. It soon becomes evident that a
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  deeper understanding is required.
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  And the yogic process is transformed into practical
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  psychology as SRI aurobindo has termed it.
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  The exploration of the inner makeup, the Divergent drives
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  thoughts, emotions feelings, desires, perceptions, and needs
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  the create these separate cells within us.
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  Becomes an important, and even essential part of the yogic
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  practice, SRI aurobindo writes, quote, we have within us and
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  discover when we go deep enough in words, in mind, self a life
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  self a physical self. There is a being of Mind, a
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  mental purusa, expressing something of itself, on our
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  surface, in the thoughts perceptions, Abilities of our
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  mind nature, a being of Life, which expresses something of
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  itself. In the impulses feelings,
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  Sensations desires, external life activities of our Vital
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  nature of physical being a being of the body, which expresses
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  something of itself in the instincts habits, formulated
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  activities of our physical nature.
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  These beings or part selves of the self and us our powers of
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  the spirit and therefore, not limited by their temporary
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  expression. For what is this?
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  Formulated is only a fragment of its possibilities, but the
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  expression creates a temporary mental, vital or physical
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  personality, which grows and develops, even as the psychic
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  being or Soul personality, grows and develops within us.
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  Each has its own distinct nature.
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  It's influence its action on the whole of us.
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  But on our surface, all these influences and all this action
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  as they come up mingle and create an aggregate surface
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  being, which is a composite, an amalgam of them, all and outer
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  persistent, and yet, shifting and mobile formation for the
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  purpose of this life, and it's limited experience in quote, the
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  mother Quote if you have the philosophic mind you will ask
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  yourself what do I call myself? Is it my body?
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  It changes all the time. It is never the same thing.
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  Is it? My feelings?
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  They change. So often.
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  Is it? My thoughts.
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  They are built and destroyed continuously that is not my
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  self. Where is the self?
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  What is it? That gives me this sense of
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  continuity, you continue to observe, you tell yourself.
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  It is my memory, but even if one loses one's memory, one would be
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  oneself. If one sincerely continues this
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  profound search, there comes a moment when everything
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  disappears and one single thing exists, that is the Divine the
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  divine presence. When one has made this
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  discovery, one becomes aware that one was nothing but a
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  bundle of habit, it is always that which does not know the
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  Divine and is not conscious of the Divine which speaks in
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  Everyone, there are these hundreds and hundreds of selves
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  who speak and in hundreds of completely different waves,
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  selves unconscious changing fluid the self which speaks
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  today is not the same as yesterday's and if you look
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  further, the self has disappeared.
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  There's only one who remains that is the divine. it is the
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  only one that may be seen always the same and quote reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother, our many selves, practical, yogic
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  psychology introduction Pages, Romans 7 to ruminate it is the
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  only one that may be seen always the same and quote reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother, our many selves, practical, yogic
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  psychology introduction Pages, Romans 7 to ruminate