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The Inmost Being — the Psychic Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  For those who live their lives, on the surface focused on
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  fulfillment of their external lives desires and their ego
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  personality. There is generally no direct
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  knowledge of the existence of the Soul, they may accept the
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  idea of a soul without a clear sense of what that implies or
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  means. Or they may deny the idea of the
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  soul. And indicate that there is no
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  proof of its existence. They may try to find proof of
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  the existence of the soul and some way.
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  If the issue even arrives as in their mind to consider that, at
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  the end of the day, for those individuals, the soul is a
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  theoretical construct, not a reality.
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  For those who however have had the direct experience of the
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  Soul who are in contact with the inmost being that tree,
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  aurobindo calls, the psychic being.
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  It is not a matter of debate about whether the soul exists.
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  It is this way with everything, those who have gained the
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  ability to see or experience, certain things are able to take
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  these things as self-evident, all those who cannot see them
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  will doubt their existence, there are people who
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  progressively lose their hearing over time.
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  At some point when they listen to music, they cannot hear
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  certain notes. Any longer and may feel like the
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  music lacks richness or even a proper.
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  A Melody due to the absence of certain notes.
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  Those, who can hear the entire range of the music being
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  performed, can bask in the beauty of the music.
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  Those who cannot hear are unable to act as true judges of the
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  existence of the music. Those who are blind cannot be,
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  the judge of Visual Arts. Similarly, those who have no
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  direct connection to the psychic being are not able to judge its
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  existence or meaning. Dr. Dalal observes quote, SRI
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  aurobindo uses the term psychic being from the Greek word for
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  psychic, meaning the soul for the inmost being which supports
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  the outer and the inner beings, the psychic being in its Essence
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  called the psyche or psychic entity is a spark or portion of
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  the Divine present in all things and creatures.
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  In the course of evolution, the psyche grows into an individual
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  psychic personality in the human being and is then called the
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  psychic. Being, whereas the universal
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  self, the ottman is unborn and stands above the evolutionary
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  process and is unaffected by it. The psychic being is the
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  evolving Soul which though Immortal pass.
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  Has through cycles of physical birth and death growing from
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  Life, To Life. SRI aurobindo notes.
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  Quote the psychic being can it first exercise, only a concealed
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  and partial and indirect action through the mind, the life and
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  the body since it is, these parts of nature that have to be
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  developed as its instruments of self-expression and it is long
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  confined by their evolution. Mission to lead man in the
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  ignorance towards the light of the Divine Consciousness.
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  It takes the essence of all experience in the ignorance to
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  form a nucleus of Soul growth in the nature.
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  The rest, it turns into material for the future, growth of the
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  instruments, which it has to use, until they are ready to be
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  a luminous instrumentation of the Divine.
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  It is the psychic personality in us that flowers as the Saint,
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  the Sage, The Seer. When it reaches its full
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  strength, it turns the being toward the knowledge of self and
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  the Divine towards the Supreme truth, the Supreme good.
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  The Supreme Beauty love and Bliss.
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  The Divine height and largeness has And opens us to the touch of
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  spiritual, sympathy universality, Oneness and quote,
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  reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother, our many selves
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  practical yogic psychology introduction.
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  SRI aurobindo on our many selves planes and parts of the being
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  Pages. Roman 25 to 26, And opens us to
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  the touch of spiritual, sympathy universality, Oneness and quote,
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  reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother, our many selves
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  practical yogic psychology introduction.
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  SRI aurobindo on our many selves planes and parts of the being
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  Pages. Roman 25 to 26,