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The Experience of the Individual in the Ordinary Life of the External Surface Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  For the individual living, on the surface of his being
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  interacting with the external World, responding to impulsions
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  pressures forces, and the objects of Desire.
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  Is inner experience, is essentially a reaction to these
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  external pressures and an attempt to meet the desires that
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  arise and somehow enjoy one's life.
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  When he succeeds in obtaining some object of desire, he
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  experiences a short-lived sense of happiness or joy.
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  When things do not work out as he hopes, he may go through
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  experiences of anger, frustration, or depression.
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  Everything revolves around how the external being perceives
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  itself to be succeeding in the outer life, and the goals he has
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  set before himself in that life. There is no real attempt to
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  harmonize all actions and reactions.
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  All thoughts and feelings all drives and desires around any
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  Central unifying intention generally.
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  The individual, simply accepts this amalgam as who he is.
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  And accepts that this is the way things need to be.
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  To the extent that an individual fixates on some specific
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  purpose, that requires extensive concentration, such as mastering
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  a sport at the world-class level or examining some deep
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  scientific or mathematical concept.
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  Or mastering the composition or performance of Music, there may
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  be a temporary seeming Harmony that allows the focus to
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  succeed. But we quickly see that once the
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  immediate object of concentration has been achieved
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  the same confused and confusing assortment of desires, thoughts
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  emotions, Etc. Arise once again, we can see
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  this in the life of certain great artists or composers, such
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  as Beethoven Mozart Van Gogh, who each had serious
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  difficulties due to the vital nature and its ability to
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  fulfill its desires, as well as subsequent issues, with physical
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  illnesses, and mental instability, in some cases, SRI
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  aurobindo observes quote to the ordinary man who lives upon his
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  own waking surface, ignorant of the selfs depth, and vastness
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  has behind the veil. His psychological existence is
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  fairly simple, a small, but clamorous company of desires,
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  some imperative, intellectual, and aesthetic Cravings.
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  Some tastes a few ruling or prominent ideas amid a great
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  current of Connected or ill connected, and mostly trivial
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  thoughts, a number of more or less imperative vital needs,
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  alternations of physical health, and disease a scattered.
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  And in consequence accession of Joys and griefs frequent minor,
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  disturbances, and vicissitudes and rare strong searchings and
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  upheavals of mind or body. And through it all nature,
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  partly with the aid of his thought and will partly without
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  or in spite of it, arranging these things in some rough
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  practical fashion, some tolerable disorderly order.
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  This is the material of his existence and quote reference
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  SRI aurobindo in the mother. Our many selves practical, yogic
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  psychology, action SRI aurobindo on our many selves planes and
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  parts of the being Paige. Roman 18.
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  Paige. Roman 18.