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The Psychic Being Acts as the Organising Principle Around Which the Responses of the Mind, Life and Body Are Aligned · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In our ordinary external awareness, we experience
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  ourselves as an individuality, and we look at our various
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  actions and reactions, responses and directed focuses of our
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  attention as one unified whole. In reality, however, upon closer
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  examination, we can determine that we in fact have different
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  parts of our being, different elements which in many cases
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  have differing needs and desires and modes of responding to
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  situations and events. We have a physical being, a
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  vital being encompassing both the nervous vital energy and the
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  expression of our life power centres and our emotional
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  reactions, and a mental being which collects our ideas,
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  opinions and focused attention. These diverse parts of our being
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  are many times in conflict with one another and thus we struggle
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  from time to time to find a solution.
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  We may try to exercise willpower to hold back a physical or vital
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  need or demand. We may sublimate energies that
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  arise in the vital nature and channel them into mental
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  pursuits. We also may find that the vital
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  nature in particular has the ability to overpower the mind
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  and the will, thus bending the mental power to carry out
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  whatever the vital desire happens to be with ready made
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  justifications and excuses to make it seem like it is the
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  right and logical thing to do. When we are able to shift the
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  standpoint to that of the psychic being, we find that the
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  psychic being is able to view and organize all these diverse
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  elements of the being around the central purpose and focus of the
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  soul. This becomes the organizing
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  principle around which the mental, vital, and physical
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  energies can collect and align themselves to support the soul's
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  intention. The mother observes.
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  Quote. The work of unifying the being
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  consists of 1 becoming aware of 1's psychic being, 2.
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  Putting before the psychic being, as one becomes aware of
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  them all, one's movements, impulses, thoughts, and acts of
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  will, so that the psychic being may accept or reject each of
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  these movements, impulses, thoughts, or acts of will.
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  Those that are accepted will be kept and carried out.
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  Those that are rejected will be driven out of the consciousness
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  so that they may never come back again.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
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  Mother. The psychic being soul, its
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  nature, mission and evolution. Section 2.
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  Role, function and Action of the Psychic.
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  Pages 64 to 65.