The External Being Filters and Can Distort the Guidance of the Soul

0:00 The promptings of the soul work through the instrumentality of the external being, the mind, the life force, and the physical body. Thus, they are restricted by the limitations of the work of those external parts, as well as subject to being modified, hijacked, or manipulated based on the external being's own predilections and normal focus. Thus, when the soul provides its guidance to the mind, it is filtered and modified by the mind. In some cases, this leads to the development of a creed, ideology, fixed teaching, or doctrine that formalizes the guidance, but also creates a fixed framework that turns a living insight or prompt into something rigid and narrow in its real application, limited in its ability to adapt or change with changing circumstances or natural growth and development.

1:04 It may also be made to fit into a preconceived mindset, thereby deforming it right from the start. In the most extreme cases, this can also lead to an attempt to convert others to a doctrine that has not come to those others, simply because the mind has turned this into some kind of universal truth that must be imposed everywhere rather than taken as the soul's direction for that individual at the current stage of their development. Similarly, the life force may seize upon the soul's guidance and try to turn it to its own advantage by using the force for self aggrandizement, gaining power or control over others, gaining wealth, taking sexual advantage, flaunting itself with vanity for the force that is active, or any number of other deformations of the purity of the soul's intended result.

2:05 Sometimes an element of performance comes in when the expression takes place in a public setting such that the purity of the intention is distorted by the desire of the external nature to attract, gain, recognition or adulation of some sort, etcetera. There can be an emphasis on extraordinary experiences at the expense of the type of substantive change. At a more subtle level, that is the objective that the soul is seeking. Shrioro Bindo writes quote. But this psychic influence or action does not come up to the surface quite pure or does not remain distinct in its purity. If it did, we would be able to distinguish clearly the sole element in US and follow consciously and fully its dictates.

2:59 An occult mental and vital and subtle physical action intervenes, mixes with it, tries to use it and turns it to its own profit, dwarfs its divinity, distorts or diminishes its self-expression, even causes it to deviate and stumble, or stains it with the impurity, smallness and error of mind and life and body. After it reaches the surface, thus alloyed and diminished, it is taken hold of by the surface nature in an obscure reception and ignorant formation. And there is, or can be by this cause, a still further deviation and mixture. A twist is given, a wrong direction is imparted, a wrong application, a wrong formation, an erroneous result of what is in itself pure stuff and action of our spiritual being. A formation of consciousness is accordingly made, which is a mixture of the psychic influence and its intimations, jumbled with mental ideas and opinions, vital desires and urges, habitual physical tendencies.

4:14 These coalesce too with the obscured soul influence, the ignorant, the well-intentioned efforts of these external parts towards a higher direction, a mental ideation of a very mixed character, often obscure even in its idealism, sometimes even disastrously mistaken of fervor and passion of the emotional being, throwing up its spray and foam of feelings, sentiments, sentimentalisms, a dynamic enthusiasm of the life parts, eager responses of the physical, the thrills and excitements of nerve and body. All these influences coalesce in a composite formation which is frequently taken as the soul and its mixed and confused action for the soul stir for a psychic development and action or a realized inner influence.

5:11 The psychic entity is itself free from staying our mixture, but what comes up from it is not protected by that immunity. Therefore this confusion becomes possible. End Quote. Reference Sri Oru Bindu and the Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution. Section 2. Role, function and Action of the Psychic. Pages 53 to 54.