The Essential Conditions for the Growth of the Psychic Being
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YouTube reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Psychic Being — Soul: Its Nature, Mission and Evolution, Section 3 Growth and Development of the Psychic, pp. 96-97This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/the-essential-conditions-for-the-growth-of-the-psychic-being/
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0:00 We tend to judge circumstances and events based on how they impacted our external personality, the individual ego. We call things good or bad based on our perception of whether they satisfy our needs, wants and desires or not. What we fail to recognize more often than not is that the psychic being may have a different agenda than our mind or vital desire soul recognizes. Sometimes the very things that we believe are harmful or unfortunate are the important opportunities the psychic being has permitted and possibly engineered to guide us towards a more complete aspiration, consecration, dedication and surrender to the divine intention. We are egocentric while the psychic being in US is divine centric.
0:58 A disciple asks how can one make one's psychic personality grow? The mother answers quote. It is through all the experiences of life that the psychic personality forms, grows, develops and finally becomes a complete, conscious and free being. This process of development goes on tirelessly through innumerable lives, and if one is not conscious of it, it is because 1 is not conscious of 1's psychic being, for that is the indispensable starting point. Through interiorization and concentration, one has to enter into conscious contact with one's psychic being. The psychic being always has an influence on the outer being, but that influence is almost always a cult, neither seen nor perceived nor felt, save on truly exceptional occasions. In order to strengthen the contact and aid, if possible, the development of the conscious psychic personality, one should, while concentrating, turn towards it, aspire to know it and feel it, open oneself to receive its influence and take great care each time that one receives an indication from it. To follow it very scrupulously and sincerely, to live in a great aspiration, to take care, to become inwardly calm and remain so always as far as
2:32 possible. To cultivate a perfect sincerity in all the activities of 1's being. These are the essential conditions for the growth of the psychic being. End Quote Reference Sri Orobindo and the Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution. Section 3. Growth and Development of the Psychic, pages 96 to 97.