Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology — Introduction

0:01 We tend to believe that we are a single consistent and harmonized individuality personality character. For the most part, we are not self reflective enough to recognize the inconsistencies and inner conflicts that take place within the being due to different drives needs desires and thoughts. Pulling us in different directions. This view, makes it difficult if not impossible to effectuate real change in the nature. To the extent that we recognize that there are multiple cells possible for an individual. We tend to relegate this to an extreme category of psychological imbalance, which we call multiple personality disorder.

0:54 In fact, every individual has a number of different selves that find among themselves. A rough form of balance with one in ascendant at one point in time. And another at another point in time. For those individuals who wish to gain Mastery over their nature, who are following spiritual Pursuits, who are seeking to participate consciously in the evolution of consciousness. It soon becomes evident that a deeper understanding is required. And the yogic process is transformed into practical psychology as SRI aurobindo has termed it.

1:36 The exploration of the inner makeup, the Divergent drives thoughts, emotions feelings, desires, perceptions, and needs the create these separate cells within us. Becomes an important, and even essential part of the yogic practice, SRI aurobindo writes, quote, we have within us and discover when we go deep enough in words, in mind, self a life self a physical self. There is a being of Mind, a mental purusa, expressing something of itself, on our surface, in the thoughts perceptions, Abilities of our mind nature, a being of Life, which expresses something of itself. In the impulses feelings, Sensations desires, external life activities of our Vital nature of physical being a being of the body, which expresses something of itself in the instincts habits, formulated activities of our physical nature.

2:49 These beings or part selves of the self and us our powers of the spirit and therefore, not limited by their temporary expression. For what is this? Formulated is only a fragment of its possibilities, but the expression creates a temporary mental, vital or physical personality, which grows and develops, even as the psychic being or Soul personality, grows and develops within us. Each has its own distinct nature. It's influence its action on the whole of us. But on our surface, all these influences and all this action as they come up mingle and create an aggregate surface being, which is a composite, an amalgam of them, all and outer persistent, and yet, shifting and mobile formation for the purpose of this life, and it's limited experience in quote, the mother Quote if you have the philosophic mind you will ask yourself what do I call myself? Is it my body?

4:04 It changes all the time. It is never the same thing. Is it? My feelings? They change. So often. Is it? My thoughts. They are built and destroyed continuously that is not my self. Where is the self? What is it? That gives me this sense of continuity, you continue to observe, you tell yourself. It is my memory, but even if one loses one's memory, one would be oneself. If one sincerely continues this profound search, there comes a moment when everything disappears and one single thing exists, that is the Divine the divine presence. When one has made this discovery, one becomes aware that one was nothing but a bundle of habit, it is always that which does not know the Divine and is not conscious of the Divine which speaks in Everyone, there are these hundreds and hundreds of selves who speak and in hundreds of completely different waves, selves unconscious changing fluid the self which speaks today is not the same as yesterday's and if you look further, the self has disappeared.

5:28 There's only one who remains that is the divine. it is the only one that may be seen always the same and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother, our many selves, practical, yogic psychology introduction Pages, Romans 7 to ruminate it is the only one that may be seen always the same and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother, our many selves, practical, yogic psychology introduction Pages, Romans 7 to ruminate