The External Being and the Inner Being

0:01 Most people identify closely with their active external personality and as a result, they consider that to be the extent of their existence. They live on the surface interact with others Family, Friends, acquaintances, Associates, and other members of society and respond to the outer environment, the weather, the economic, and political conditions, Etc. This constitutes the framework of their lives. Some individuals. However, particularly as they begin to have experiences that show them, that there is another aspect and significance to their lives, find that they can observe this outer life and participate in it yet, feel themselves separate and apart from that existence, they begin to experience an inner life.

0:59 As these individuals explore the experiences thoughts, emotions and feelings that are associated with this separation, they begin to recognize that the Apparently superficial goals objectives. And purposes of the external life are insufficient to explain either the existence of the universal manifestation or indeed their own lives. In many cases, they have intimations of a long developmental process and evolution of Consciousness in which they have participated in some cases. They have intimations of past lives and experiences that fall outside the framework of the external life they lead. if pursued further the individual either comes in contact with the psychic being the sole, which is a part from the Mind life body that he occupies in this lifetime, or he finds himself achieving a new standpoint of a witness of the nature, free independent and able to observe and eventually direct the outer being free aurobindo notes, quote, There are we may say to beings in us, one on the surface are ordinary exterior, mind life, body Consciousness,

2:29 another behind the veil. An inner mind, an inner life and inner physical Consciousness, constituting another or inner self. This inner self once a week opens in its turn to our true. Real Eternal self, it opens inwardly to the soul called in the language of this yoga. The psychic being which supports our success of births. And in each birth assumes, a new mind, life and body. It opens above to the self or Spirit, which is unborn. And by conscious recovery of it, we transcend the changing Personality and Achieve freedom and full Mastery over our nature and quote reference SRI, aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 8, the psychic being and inner growth page 148.