Contending With the Multitude of Beings That Exist Within Each Individual

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Almost everyone has the
experience from time to time of

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acting out a different
personality.

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We may say that someone got out
of bed on the wrong side.

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This morning when we see a
normally cheerful and upbeat

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individual responding in a
totally uncharacteristic way.

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We chalk this up to some mood or
temporary circumstance, stress

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sleeplessness.
Worried or some physical

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condition, or imbalance, or even
some mental focus that distracts

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we have times of intense, mental
focus or emotionally-charged

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aspects to our lives or times of
vital or physical challenges

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that impact the way we respond
to life.

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If we observe closely, we can
see that the changes we undergo

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are based on the variable effect
of the Dominance and

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modifications, brought about by
the three gunas, the qualities

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of nature impacting.
The current aspect of the being

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that is in front.
Whether mental, vital or

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physical, if we look, even more
closely, we find that the mental

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being the emotional, being the
vital being and the physical

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being are not unified, and that
there are different aspects that

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come forward.
Even Within These segments, then

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we have to examine the
interaction of the different

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aspects.
Such that there is a current

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predominant physical being
combined with the current

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predominant vital or mental
being the possible combinations.

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Here are virtually endless.
The mother concludes that those

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who have developed a highly
developed individuality

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represent an amalgam of
innumerable person.

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Mallet.
He's and by no means are they

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all unified thus leading to
Inner conflict or at least

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modification of the pure action
of any one aspect of the being

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the process of observing
understanding and unifying the

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being around a central focus.
And goal is for such

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individuals, a difficult and
lengthy one.

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Those who have a less complex in
her life are able to deal with

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their lives in a much simpler
and easier manner.

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SRI aurobindo writes, quote.
It is part of the foundation of

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yoga to become conscious of the
great complexity of our nature,

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see the different forces, that
move it, and get over it.

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A control of directing
knowledge.

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A disciple inquires, quote, are
these forces different for each

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person?
The mother responds.

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Quote, yes, the composition is
completely different.

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Otherwise everybody would be the
same.

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There are not two beings with an
identical combination between

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the different parts of the being
and the composition of these

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parts.
The proportion is different.

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In each individual, there are
people primitive men.

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People like the yet undeveloped
races or the degenerated ones

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whose combinations are.
Fairly simple.

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They are still complicated.
But comparatively simple.

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And there are people absolutely
at the top of the human ladder

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that Elite of humanity, their
combinations become.

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So complicated that a very
special discernment is needed to

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find the relations between all
these things.

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There are beings, who carry in
themselves, thousands of

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different personalities.
And then each one has its own

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Rhythm and alternation and there
is a kind of combination

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sometimes their inner conflicts
and there is a play of

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activities which are rhythmic
and with alternations of certain

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parts which come to the front
and then go back and again come

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to the front but when one takes
all that it makes such

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complicated Combinations.
That some people Truly find, it

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difficult to understand what is
going on in themselves and yet

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these are the ones most capable
of a complete coordinated

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conscious organized action.
But their organization is

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infinitely more complicated than
that of primitive or undeveloped

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men who have two or three,
impulses and four or five ideas

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and who can arrange all this.
Easily in themselves and seem to

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be very coordinated and logical
because there is not very much

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too organized.
But there are people truly like

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a multitude and so that gives
them a plasticity, a fluidity of

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action and an extraordinary
complexity of perception.

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And these people are capable of
understanding a considerable

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number of things as though they
had at their disposal a

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veritable Army, which they move
according to circumstance and

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need and all this is inside
them.

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So when these people with the
help of yoga, the discipline of

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yoga succeed in centralizing,
all these beings around the

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central light of the divine
presence, they become powerful

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entities precisely because of
their complexity.

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So long as this is not
organized, they often give the

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impression of an incoherent.
They are almost incomprehensible

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one can't manage to understand.
They are like that, they are so

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complex.
But when they have organized,

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all these beings that is put
each one in its place around the

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Divine Center, then truly, they
are terrific for.

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They have the capacity of
understanding almost everything

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and doing almost everything
because of the multitude of

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entities, they contain of, which
they are constituted.

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And the nearer one is to the
Emmett of the ladder, the more

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is it like that?
And consequently the more

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difficult is it to organize ones
being because when you have

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about a dozen elements, you can
quickly compass and organize

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them.
But when you have thousands of

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them, it is difficult and quote,
reference SRI aurobindo in the

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mother, our many selves
practical yogic psychology

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chapter 1 Our manifold being
pages to 24.