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The Psychic Being and Its Interface with the Mental, Vital and Physical Parts of the Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The physical being, the vital being, and the mental being each
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  have their own characteristic mode of action, habits and
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  predilections. They also have created, over
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  time, an interface that modifies the native action of each to
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  accept some amount of influence and control by the other
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  elements. Thus, we have seen that the
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  vital being has gained substantial influence over the
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  physical body and the mental action, and similarly the mind
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  has gained substantial ability to direct and guide the vital
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  and the body. The body itself limits the
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  action of the vital and mental aspects of the being with its
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  own designated limits and constraints.
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  When the psychic being begins to exert its influence and
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  eventually control the actions of the body, life, and mind, a
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  very similar process takes place.
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  At first it is an influence that modifies the native actions of
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  the various parts of the being, while they continue to primarily
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  follow their own characteristic lines of action and development.
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  As the psychic influence grows, it begins to exercise more
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  control to the extent that it can begin to change the action
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  of these other parts of the being within the framework of
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  their limitations and capacities.
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  The seeker can identify the psychic influence by the
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  colouring it gives to the mind, vital and physical.
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  To the extent that the movement is mixed with the elements of
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  the lower nature, it will be subject to the action of those
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  parts. The more powerfully the psychic
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  is able to act, the more the seeker will experience the
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  purity of the aspiration, devotion, self giving without
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  any of the dogmas desires or physical demands that accompany
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  the mind. Vital and physical interaction
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  Shviorovindo Notes Quote There is always a part of the mind of
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  the vital of the body which is or can be influenced by the
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  psychic. They can be called the psychic
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  mental, the psychic vital, the psychic physical according to
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  the personality or the degree of evolution of each person.
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  This part can be small or large, weak or strong, covered up and
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  inactive or prominent and in action.
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  When it acts, the movements of the mind, vital or physical,
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  accept the psychic motives or aims, partake of the nature of
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  the psychic, or follow its aims, but with a modification in the
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  manner which belongs to the mind, vital or physical.
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  The psychic vital seeks after the divine, but it has a demand
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  in its self giving, desire, vital eagerness.
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  The psychic has not for the psychic has instead pure self
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  giving aspiration intensity of psychic fire.
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  The psychic vital is subject to pain and suffering which there
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  is not in the psychic. End Quote reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother The psychic being soul, its nature,
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  mission and evolution. Section 1.
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  Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being, pages 20 to 21.