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Organizing One’s Life Around a Central Aspiration · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  One of the things that spiritual Seekers experience is that
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  regardless of how strong the central aspiration of the Soul
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  happens to be within them. They experienced fluctuations
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  based on the various parts of the external nature coming to
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  the front and asserting their own priorities.
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  This leads to a confused and unfocused life punctuated by
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  periods of spiritual aspiration times of Consecration.
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  And then a fall back into the priorities set by the body, the
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  Life Energy, and the mind, and their relationship to the ego
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  personality that has been formed and the pressures and demands of
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  the external life. The mother suggest that the
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  solution of this situation is based in organizing the entire
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  life step-by-step around the souls aspiration.
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  And bringing the thoughts, the emotions, the vital responses
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  and the Very actions of the body into alignment with the
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  direction of the Soul, a disciple inquires, you say that
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  it is necessary to establish homogeneity in our being The
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  mother notes quote. Don't you know what a
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  homogeneous thing is made up of all similar parts, that means
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  the whole being must be under the same influence, same
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  Consciousness, same tendency same, will we are formed of all
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  kinds of different pieces. They become active one after
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  another. According to the part that is
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  active, one is quite another person.
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  Becomes almost another personality.
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  For instance, one had an aspiration at first felt that
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  everything existed only for the Divine, then something happens.
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  Somebody comes along. One has to do something and
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  everything disappears. When tries to recall the
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  experience, not even the memory of the experience remains when
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  is completely under another influence.
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  One wonders. How this could have happened?
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  Clear examples of double triple quadruple personalities, all
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  together unconscious of themselves but it is not about
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  this. I am speaking, I am speaking
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  about something which has happened to all of you, you have
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  had an experience and for some time, you have felt understood
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  that this experience was the only thing that was important,
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  that had an absolute value. Half an hour later you try to
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  recall. It it is like a smoke that
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  vanishes the experience has disappeared.
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  And yet half an hour ago it was there.
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  And so powerful it is because one is made of all kinds of
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  different things. The body is like a bag with
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  pebbles and Pearls all mixed up and it is only the bag, which
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  keeps all that together, this is not a homogeneous uniform
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  Consciousness, but a heterogeneous one and quote,
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  reference SRI aurobindo and the mother, our many selves
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  practical yogic psychology chapter 1, our manifold being
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  Pages seven to eight