The External Personality and the Psychic Being

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for most people, the external
personality and being the body

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and its needs, and habits the
life force and it's desires, and

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the mind, and its particular
predilections represent, who

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they are, rarely an individual
reflects deeply on the question

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of, who am I And begins to
understand that there is a

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deeper significance and reality
to our lives than can be

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contained.
Within this external being when

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we die the life force, departs
from the body and the body,

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disintegrates back into its
constituent elements.

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If the body is the measure of
our existence, then we are

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bounded within the period of
birth and death and there is no

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further.
Either significance.

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If we identify with the life
force, we may conclude that it

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continues to exist.
After the death of the body and

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simply takes another body, like
changing a suit of clothes.

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When the time for one body is
finished, if that were the case,

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however, we would be able to
identify a continuity of Life

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Force along some specific,
chosen path or Focus.

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Yet, we find that there does not
seem to be a Parent organized,

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sustained being consisting of
that life force.

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But rather that the life force,
even if it holds together for

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some time after death,
eventually also dissolves into

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the constituent elements of the
Life Energy.

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We tend to identify most closely
with the mind.

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I think.
Therefore, I am the famous

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dictum of Descartes, expresses
this idea.

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At the time of death, what
happens to the Mind?

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Do we still identify with?
And think with the mind when the

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life force departs from the
external being and the body

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dissolves.
Does the mind, reconstitute a

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new body and life force and
continue.

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Along its chosen developmental
path.

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We have no evidence that a
Shakespeare or an Einstein or a

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shankaracharya consciously
continue along their specific

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path of mental focus and
development in a new body.

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It appears from what we can tell
that the mental formation that

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constituted a specific being in
life, also dissolves into its

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own constituent elements.
Or into the collective

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unconscious as viewed by Young
even if it survives the

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dissolution of the Body for some
period of time.

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This is not a new line of
inquiry.

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
sets forth, a detailed review of

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the stages of dissolution,
successively of the body, the

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Life Energy, and the mind of an
individual who dies.

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What is left, is the essence of
the being, which eventually

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after shedding the body life and
mind of one being or external

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personality takes a new birth.
And a new life without carrying

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forward, the specific
personality that existed in the

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prior lifetime, the ancient
Greeks held that Souls that took

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birth had to pass through the
waters of lengthy and thus not

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bring with them into a new life,
the memories and details of the

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past life.
The tight area would punish odd

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explores this question and
eventually recognizes that the

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body, the Life Energy and the
mind are not our true selves.

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There is a causal being and a
being of bliss that are more

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Central to the truth of our
existence that by which we are

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born that, by which we exist,
and that, by which we survive

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death.
This is the true inner being

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that utilizes the body life and
mine for its manifestation

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growth and development.
The bhagwad Gita describes this

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deeper true being, which uses
the Mind life and body as its

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Machinery, but which is not
either Bound by them or defined

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by them.
This bifurcation between the

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external being and the true
inner spark, which is termed,

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the optimum the psychic being or
the soul and the need to shift

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the identification from the
external personality to the true

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inner being and the consequent
disruptions this can create for

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an individual based primarily in
the external being initially are

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the underlying issues that
caused the alternations of

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consciousness.
As we become aware of and shift,

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our standpoint to the true being
and away from the external being

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SRI aurobindo notes, quote, the
real reason of the difficulty

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and the constant alternation is
the struggle between the veiled

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true being within and the outer
nature, especially the lower

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vital full of desires and the
physical mindful of obscurity

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and ignorance.
The struggle is a Inevitable in

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human nature and no Sadiq
escapes.

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It everyone has to deal with
that obscurity and resistance

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and its obstinacy and it's
constant recurrence.

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For the lower nature is not only
persistent in its repetitions

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and returns, but even when it is
on the point of changing, the

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general powers of that plane and
Universal nature, try to keep up

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the resistance by bringing back
the old movements at each step,

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in order to prevent the progress
from being confirmed for good

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and made final.
It is true.

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Therefore that a constant,
sadhna persistent, and unceasing

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is necessary.
If one wants to go quickly

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though, even otherwise one will
arrive at if the soul within has

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to call for the soul will
persist.

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And after each obscurity ation,
or stumble will bring back the

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light and drive one on the path,
till it feels that it is at

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least At Last secure.
Of a smooth and easy March to

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the goal and quote reference SRI
aurobindo and the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 6 growth of
Consciousness difficulties and

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pitfalls Pages 121 21. 22