The Desire-Soul and the Life and Death of the Body
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YouTube 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/
0:01 The. Vital desire. Soul animates the external being when it enters the physical frame. We say that there is life in the body. When it departs, we say. That the person has died. This is distinguishable. From the true soul. The psychic being. Which is not dependent on either. The life or death of a particular. Body. Which transcends and survives the life of the body. And which takes on new. Forms. As. Needed to carry out its role in the. Universal. Manifestation for. Those. Who have experienced an out of body experience, there is the sense of the vital being separating. From the.
0:48 Physical body in some. Cases. It can view the body and its surroundings from outside. Sensitive individuals speak of a silver. Cord or thread? That ties. The Vital. Being to the physical. Body if. The thread. Snaps while the vital. Being is outside the physical. Frame. The death. Of the body occurs. The true soul, meanwhile, does not act to animate or remove life from the body. Rather, it uses the body for its purposes. And can shift to a new. Physical frame when its purpose here is concluded. In this form.
1:31 The mother writes Quote The vital soul is what animates the body. The life which animates the body. You see an ordinary language, it is said. You die when your soul leaves your body, or your soul leaves your body when you die. In. One way or the other. But it is not the soul. It is not only this soul what we call soul, I mean the psychic. Being. It is the Vital Being. When the vital Being leaves the body, for whatever reason, the body dies. Or. Death cuts off the vital being from the body. So it is in the sense of.
2:12 Animating that is giving life. The disciple asks, is this the vital desire soul, sweet mother? The mother. Responds yes, the vital soul is full of desires. The vital being. Is full of desires. It is built of desires. End Quote Reference Sriorobindo and the mother our many selves practical. Yogic Psychology. Chapter 2. Plains and. Parts of the being. Page 28.