The Heterogeneous Nature of Our External Being
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Psychic Being — Soul: Its Nature, Mission and Evolution, Section 2 Role, Function and Action of the Psychic, pp. 67-68This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/the-heterogeneous-nature-of-our-external-being/
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0:00 We identify ourselves with the constructed ego personality that we have assumed. We have certain ideas, feelings, relationships, preferences, desires, ambitions, fears, and motivations of various sorts. We treat this ego personality as a unified whole and do not usually investigate the varying ways we respond to situations or the internal conflicts that arise between our desires, for instance, and our rational minds. Sometimes we struggle with these conflicts without recognizing that they represent separate parts of the being that each have their own motivational and need structure. For instance, we have a desire for a certain food, but our rational mind tells us that it is not healthy for us to consume it.
0:55 Or we are antagonized in a situation and our first reaction is to express anger and fight, while our mind tells us that it is going to have negative consequences and we should simply walk away. There are endless numbers of such conflicts within our being. Shrioro, Bindo and the mother describe these variances and conflicts within the being as resulting from different parts of the being that have their own separate evolutionary development and powers and which do not always agree with each other. The constructed ego personality attempts to avoid recognizing the inherent conflicting motivations between the physical, the vital, the emotional, the basic mental and the higher mental consciousness, as well As for those who have awakened to it the promptings of the soul.
1:53 The psychic being, which becomes an organizing factor for all these diverse and divergent parts of our being once we have identified with it and begin to accept its guidance and direction as the source of our external beings actions. A disciple asks You say that it is necessary to establish homogeneity in our being. The mother responds quote. Don't you know what a homogeneous thing is made-up of similar parts? That means the whole being must be under the same influence, same consciousness, same tendency, same will. We are formed of all kinds of different pieces. They become active one after another. According to the part that is active, one is quite another person.
2:50 It becomes almost another personality. For instance, one had an aspiration, at first, felt that everything existed only for the divine. Then something happens, somebody comes along, one has to do something and everything disappears. One tries to recall the experience, not even the memory of the experience remains. 1 is completely under another influence. One wonders how this could have happened. There are examples of double, triple, quadruple personalities altogether unconscious of themselves. But it is not about this I am speaking. I am speaking about something which has happened to all of you.
3:39 You have had an experience and for some time you have felt understood that this experience was the only thing that was important, that had an absolute value. Half an hour later you try to recall it. It is like a smoke that vanishes. The experience has disappeared. And yet half an hour ago it was there and so powerful. It is because one is made of all kinds of different things. The body is like a bag of pebbles and pearls all mixed up, and it is only the bag which keeps all that together. This is not a homogeneous uniform consciousness, but a heterogeneous one.
4:26 End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindu and the Mother. The psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution. Section 2. Role, function and Action of the Psychic. Pages 67 to 68.
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