The External Personality and the Psychic Being

0:01 for most people, the external personality and being the body and its needs, and habits the life force and it's desires, and the mind, and its particular predilections represent, who they are, rarely an individual reflects deeply on the question of, who am I And begins to understand that there is a deeper significance and reality to our lives than can be contained. Within this external being when we die the life force, departs from the body and the body, disintegrates back into its constituent elements.

0:44 If the body is the measure of our existence, then we are bounded within the period of birth and death and there is no further. Either significance. If we identify with the life force, we may conclude that it continues to exist. After the death of the body and simply takes another body, like changing a suit of clothes. When the time for one body is finished, if that were the case, however, we would be able to identify a continuity of Life Force along some specific, chosen path or Focus. Yet, we find that there does not seem to be a Parent organized, sustained being consisting of that life force.

1:31 But rather that the life force, even if it holds together for some time after death, eventually also dissolves into the constituent elements of the Life Energy. We tend to identify most closely with the mind. I think. Therefore, I am the famous dictum of Descartes, expresses this idea. At the time of death, what happens to the Mind? Do we still identify with? And think with the mind when the life force departs from the external being and the body dissolves. Does the mind, reconstitute a new body and life force and continue.

2:13 Along its chosen developmental path. We have no evidence that a Shakespeare or an Einstein or a shankaracharya consciously continue along their specific path of mental focus and development in a new body. It appears from what we can tell that the mental formation that constituted a specific being in life, also dissolves into its own constituent elements. Or into the collective unconscious as viewed by Young even if it survives the dissolution of the Body for some period of time.

2:55 This is not a new line of inquiry. The Tibetan Book of the Dead sets forth, a detailed review of the stages of dissolution, successively of the body, the Life Energy, and the mind of an individual who dies. What is left, is the essence of the being, which eventually after shedding the body life and mind of one being or external personality takes a new birth. And a new life without carrying forward, the specific personality that existed in the prior lifetime, the ancient Greeks held that Souls that took birth had to pass through the waters of lengthy and thus not bring with them into a new life, the memories and details of the past life. The tight area would punish odd explores this question and eventually recognizes that the body, the Life Energy and the mind are not our true selves.

4:00 There is a causal being and a being of bliss that are more Central to the truth of our existence that by which we are born that, by which we exist, and that, by which we survive death. This is the true inner being that utilizes the body life and mine for its manifestation growth and development. The bhagwad Gita describes this deeper true being, which uses the Mind life and body as its Machinery, but which is not either Bound by them or defined by them. This bifurcation between the external being and the true inner spark, which is termed, the optimum the psychic being or the soul and the need to shift the identification from the external personality to the true inner being and the consequent disruptions this can create for an individual based primarily in the external being initially are the underlying issues that caused the alternations of consciousness. As we become aware of and shift, our standpoint to the true being and away from the external being SRI aurobindo notes, quote, the real reason of the difficulty and the constant alternation is the struggle between the veiled true being within and the outer nature, especially the lower

5:32 vital full of desires and the physical mindful of obscurity and ignorance. The struggle is a Inevitable in human nature and no Sadiq escapes. It everyone has to deal with that obscurity and resistance and its obstinacy and it's constant recurrence. For the lower nature is not only persistent in its repetitions and returns, but even when it is on the point of changing, the general powers of that plane and Universal nature, try to keep up the resistance by bringing back the old movements at each step, in order to prevent the progress from being confirmed for good and made final. It is true.

6:20 Therefore that a constant, sadhna persistent, and unceasing is necessary. If one wants to go quickly though, even otherwise one will arrive at if the soul within has to call for the soul will persist. And after each obscurity ation, or stumble will bring back the light and drive one on the path, till it feels that it is at least At Last secure. Of a smooth and easy March to the goal and quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development.

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