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Understanding Conflicting Powers in the Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is practically a universal experience, among religious and
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  spiritual Seekers. And even among people who are
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  simply developing some kind of an inner life that they have an
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  aspiration, a desire to consecrate themselves, to some
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  gold principle or idea. And yet they struggle with
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  opposing predilections that cause them extreme distress.
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  Some religious devotees, for instance, take on a vow of
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  celibacy as part of their commitment to the religion, they
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  follow. And yet there's an extraordinary
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  amount of sexual tension they experience through their lives,
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  which leads in some cases, to sexual activities, much of which
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  has been exposed in recent years, in the various sexual
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  abuse scandals, that have rock some of the major religious
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  institutions of the world. Old or in other's two forms of
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  self torture such as use of the Solis or sack cloth or even
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  self-flagellation as they tried to beat the recalcitrant parts
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  of their being into submission. There are of course other
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  instances. Such as overcoming the impulse
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  to anger judgment and condemnation of others and
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  extreme instances. Such as the holy Inquisition.
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  In the Catholic church, that evidence and internal conflict
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  between a stated ideal held by part of the being and the
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  opposition within the nature that tries to save Express and
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  enjoy the objects of Desire held by other parts of the being
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  Those things that an individual cannot face within himself, he
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  then turns out words to try to dominate or control what he sees
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  in others. The reality is that each
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  individual has within him. The entire range of response and
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  capacity of each of the component, aspects of the being
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  physical vital, emotional, and mental under certain pressure,
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  or sets of circumstances, the seed sprouts.
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  And they suddenly experienced an uprising of things that they may
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  have. Thought had been totally
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  extirpated from the nature. Aspects of the being which had
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  been suppressed. Still remained in seed form,
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  just waiting for the right conditions to make themselves
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  felt The mother observes quote, an entity is a personality or an
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  individuality. There are many such
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  Personalities in each one of us, if these personalities agree and
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  are complementary with one another, they make up a human
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  being a rich and complex person. But that is not what?
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  Usually happens. These personalities do not agree
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  with one another. For example, one of them might
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  wish to make some progress to become more and more perfect to
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  get a deeper knowledge of things to realize more and more to
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  proceed towards the Perfection of the being while another one,
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  may simply want to have fun and enjoy itself as much as it can.
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  One day, it will do this. The next day, something else
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  Etc. If the personalities do not
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  agree, this person's life will be incoherent and that is not
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  unusual. In fact, these cases are very
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  common. What happens then conflicts
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  friction inner disorder created by these individualities, which
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  are unable to get on with one another.
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  The strongest one, gets the upper hand, it is not only
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  dominant over the others, but curbs them to stop them from
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  rebelling. So, in the end, The Unlucky
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  ones, the repressed ones, go to sleep, they bide their time and
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  when that time, Time comes they suddenly jump up and turn
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  everything upside down. If that happens very often, that
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  person's life will be a very disorderly one.
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  He will take up one thing today and go on with another tomorrow.
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  And so on and quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother,
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  our many selves practical yogic psychology chapter one, our
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  manifold be Pages, 6 to 7. Pages, 6 to 7.