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July 23, 2023

The Desire-Soul and the Life and Death of the Body

The Desire-Soul and the Life and Death of the Body

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 2, Planes and Parts of the Being, pg. 28 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/07/21/the-desire-soul-and-the-life-and-death-of-the-body/


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The.
Vital desire.

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Soul animates the external being
when it enters the physical

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frame.
We say that there is life in the

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body.
When it departs, we say.

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That the person has died.
This is distinguishable.

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From the true soul.
The psychic being.

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Which is not dependent on
either.

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The life or death of a
particular.

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Body.
Which transcends and survives

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the life of the body.
And which takes on new.

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Forms.
As.

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Needed to carry out its role in
the.

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Universal.
Manifestation for.

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Those.
Who have experienced an out of

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body experience, there is the
sense of the vital being

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separating.
From the.

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Physical body in some.
Cases.

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It can view the body and its
surroundings from outside.

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Sensitive individuals speak of a
silver.

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Cord or thread?
That ties.

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The Vital.
Being to the physical.

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Body if.
The thread.

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Snaps while the vital.
Being is outside the physical.

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Frame.
The death.

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Of the body occurs.
The true soul, meanwhile, does

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not act to animate or remove
life from the body.

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Rather, it uses the body for its
purposes.

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And can shift to a new.
Physical frame when its purpose

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here is concluded.
In this form.

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The mother writes Quote The
vital soul is what animates the

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body.
The life which animates the

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body.
You see an ordinary language, it

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is said.
You die when your soul leaves

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your body, or your soul leaves
your body when you die.

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In.
One way or the other.

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But it is not the soul.
It is not only this soul what we

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call soul, I mean the psychic.
Being.

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It is the Vital Being.
When the vital Being leaves the

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body, for whatever reason, the
body dies.

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Or.
Death cuts off the vital being

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from the body.
So it is in the sense of.

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Animating that is giving life.
The disciple asks, is this the

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vital desire soul, sweet mother?
The mother.

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Responds yes, the vital soul is
full of desires.

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The vital being.
Is full of desires.

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It is built of desires.
End Quote Reference Sriorobindo

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and the mother our many selves
practical.

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Yogic Psychology.
Chapter 2.

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Plains and.
Parts of the being.

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Page 28.