The Experience of the Individual in the Ordinary Life of the External Surface Being

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For the individual living, on
the surface of his being

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interacting with the external
World, responding to impulsions

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pressures forces, and the
objects of Desire.

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Is inner experience, is
essentially a reaction to these

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external pressures and an
attempt to meet the desires that

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arise and somehow enjoy one's
life.

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When he succeeds in obtaining
some object of desire, he

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experiences a short-lived sense
of happiness or joy.

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When things do not work out as
he hopes, he may go through

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experiences of anger,
frustration, or depression.

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Everything revolves around how
the external being perceives

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itself to be succeeding in the
outer life, and the goals he has

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set before himself in that life.
There is no real attempt to

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harmonize all actions and
reactions.

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All thoughts and feelings all
drives and desires around any

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Central unifying intention
generally.

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The individual, simply accepts
this amalgam as who he is.

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And accepts that this is the way
things need to be.

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To the extent that an individual
fixates on some specific

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purpose, that requires extensive
concentration, such as mastering

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a sport at the world-class level
or examining some deep

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scientific or mathematical
concept.

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Or mastering the composition or
performance of Music, there may

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be a temporary seeming Harmony
that allows the focus to

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succeed.
But we quickly see that once the

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immediate object of
concentration has been achieved

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the same confused and confusing
assortment of desires, thoughts

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emotions, Etc.
Arise once again, we can see

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this in the life of certain
great artists or composers, such

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as Beethoven Mozart Van Gogh,
who each had serious

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difficulties due to the vital
nature and its ability to

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fulfill its desires, as well as
subsequent issues, with physical

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illnesses, and mental
instability, in some cases, SRI

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aurobindo observes quote to the
ordinary man who lives upon his

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own waking surface, ignorant of
the selfs depth, and vastness

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has behind the veil.
His psychological existence is

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fairly simple, a small, but
clamorous company of desires,

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some imperative, intellectual,
and aesthetic Cravings.

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Some tastes a few ruling or
prominent ideas amid a great

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current of Connected or ill
connected, and mostly trivial

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thoughts, a number of more or
less imperative vital needs,

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alternations of physical health,
and disease a scattered.

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And in consequence accession of
Joys and griefs frequent minor,

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disturbances, and vicissitudes
and rare strong searchings and

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upheavals of mind or body.
And through it all nature,

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partly with the aid of his
thought and will partly without

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or in spite of it, arranging
these things in some rough

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practical fashion, some
tolerable disorderly order.

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This is the material of his
existence and quote reference

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SRI aurobindo in the mother.
Our many selves practical, yogic

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psychology, action SRI aurobindo
on our many selves planes and

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parts of the being Paige.
Roman 18.

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Paige.
Roman 18.