Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology — Introduction

1
00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:06,500
We tend to believe that we are a
single consistent and harmonized

2
00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:10,200
individuality personality
character.

3
00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:15,700
For the most part, we are not
self reflective enough to

4
00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:20,400
recognize the inconsistencies
and inner conflicts that take

5
00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:26,700
place within the being due to
different drives needs desires

6
00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:30,000
and thoughts.
Pulling us in different

7
00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,100
directions.
This view, makes it difficult if

8
00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:38,200
not impossible to effectuate
real change in the nature.

9
00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,400
To the extent that we recognize
that there are multiple cells

10
00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:46,500
possible for an individual.
We tend to relegate this to an

11
00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:50,600
extreme category of
psychological imbalance, which

12
00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,500
we call multiple personality
disorder.

13
00:00:54,300 --> 00:00:59,300
In fact, every individual has a
number of different selves that

14
00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:03,500
find among themselves.
A rough form of balance with one

15
00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:05,700
in ascendant at one point in
time.

16
00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,400
And another at another point in
time.

17
00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:13,400
For those individuals who wish
to gain Mastery over their

18
00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:17,600
nature, who are following
spiritual Pursuits, who are

19
00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,900
seeking to participate
consciously in the evolution of

20
00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:25,300
consciousness.
It soon becomes evident that a

21
00:01:25,308 --> 00:01:27,600
deeper understanding is
required.

22
00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,600
And the yogic process is
transformed into practical

23
00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,100
psychology as SRI aurobindo has
termed it.

24
00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,700
The exploration of the inner
makeup, the Divergent drives

25
00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:46,100
thoughts, emotions feelings,
desires, perceptions, and needs

26
00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:49,200
the create these separate cells
within us.

27
00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,900
Becomes an important, and even
essential part of the yogic

28
00:01:54,900 --> 00:02:02,100
practice, SRI aurobindo writes,
quote, we have within us and

29
00:02:02,100 --> 00:02:07,100
discover when we go deep enough
in words, in mind, self a life

30
00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:11,900
self a physical self.
There is a being of Mind, a

31
00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:15,900
mental purusa, expressing
something of itself, on our

32
00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:21,300
surface, in the thoughts
perceptions, Abilities of our

33
00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:26,400
mind nature, a being of Life,
which expresses something of

34
00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,200
itself.
In the impulses feelings,

35
00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:34,700
Sensations desires, external
life activities of our Vital

36
00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:40,300
nature of physical being a being
of the body, which expresses

37
00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:45,200
something of itself in the
instincts habits, formulated

38
00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,300
activities of our physical
nature.

39
00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,800
These beings or part selves of
the self and us our powers of

40
00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,800
the spirit and therefore, not
limited by their temporary

41
00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,200
expression.
For what is this?

42
00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:05,300
Formulated is only a fragment of
its possibilities, but the

43
00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:09,600
expression creates a temporary
mental, vital or physical

44
00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:15,000
personality, which grows and
develops, even as the psychic

45
00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,900
being or Soul personality, grows
and develops within us.

46
00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:23,200
Each has its own distinct
nature.

47
00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,800
It's influence its action on the
whole of us.

48
00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:32,700
But on our surface, all these
influences and all this action

49
00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,400
as they come up mingle and
create an aggregate surface

50
00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:42,300
being, which is a composite, an
amalgam of them, all and outer

51
00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:47,000
persistent, and yet, shifting
and mobile formation for the

52
00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,500
purpose of this life, and it's
limited experience in quote, the

53
00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:58,900
mother Quote if you have the
philosophic mind you will ask

54
00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:04,000
yourself what do I call myself?
Is it my body?

55
00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,000
It changes all the time.
It is never the same thing.

56
00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,300
Is it?
My feelings?

57
00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,200
They change.
So often.

58
00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:14,400
Is it?
My thoughts.

59
00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,600
They are built and destroyed
continuously that is not my

60
00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,200
self.
Where is the self?

61
00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:24,700
What is it?
That gives me this sense of

62
00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:29,000
continuity, you continue to
observe, you tell yourself.

63
00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:35,100
It is my memory, but even if one
loses one's memory, one would be

64
00:04:35,100 --> 00:04:39,000
oneself.
If one sincerely continues this

65
00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,200
profound search, there comes a
moment when everything

66
00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:49,600
disappears and one single thing
exists, that is the Divine the

67
00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,200
divine presence.
When one has made this

68
00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:57,100
discovery, one becomes aware
that one was nothing but a

69
00:04:57,100 --> 00:05:01,900
bundle of habit, it is always
that which does not know the

70
00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:06,600
Divine and is not conscious of
the Divine which speaks in

71
00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,300
Everyone, there are these
hundreds and hundreds of selves

72
00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:14,300
who speak and in hundreds of
completely different waves,

73
00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:21,100
selves unconscious changing
fluid the self which speaks

74
00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:25,000
today is not the same as
yesterday's and if you look

75
00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,700
further, the self has
disappeared.

76
00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:34,200
There's only one who remains
that is the divine. it is the

77
00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:41,200
only one that may be seen always
the same and quote reference SRI

78
00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,300
aurobindo in the mother, our
many selves, practical, yogic

79
00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:34,200
psychology introduction Pages,
Romans 7 to ruminate it is the

80
00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:41,200
only one that may be seen always
the same and quote reference SRI

81
00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,300
aurobindo in the mother, our
many selves, practical, yogic

82
00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:51,500
psychology introduction Pages,
Romans 7 to ruminate