The Inner Being Far Exceeds the Limits of the Surface Personality

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In order to function in the
outer world, we wind up

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filtering out most of the input
that comes our way, such that

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only a very small percentage of
what we perceive or experience

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actually comes into our waking
awareness.

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The rest is captured and held
somewhere in what we call the

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subconscious level of our being.
To come forth only under

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circumstances that trigger the
awareness, or with prodding

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under the influence of
techniques such as hypnotism or

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various forms of regression
therapy that take us back into

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circumstances and events and let
the mind examine the

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observations of the event from a
new angle.

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Without such a filtering
process, we would have a

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tremendous amount of data to
process and we would be

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functionally paralyzed into
inaction.

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The filtering process is one
that is refined as we focus our

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attention on various interests
or outcomes and target data that

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will aid us in achieving the
desired result.

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This does not imply, however,
that the rest of the input is

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ineffective and has no impact on
the direction, response and

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actions we take, rather that we
consciously only pay attention

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to certain key factors while the
others influence us unseen and

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unnoted.
While we focus our attention on

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the external world and our
waking self, there is much more

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to existence and the
significance of each being than

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just that external interaction.
The inner being has a much wider

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range and scope of action than
the limited and filtered life of

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the surface personality,
Shriorobinda notes Quote This

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concealed self and consciousness
is our real or whole being, of

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which the outer is a part and a
phenomenon, A selective

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formation for a surface use.
We perceive only a small number

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of the contacts of things which
impinge upon us.

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The inner being perceives all
that enters or touches us and

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our environment.
We perceive only a part of the

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workings of our life and being.
The inner being perceives so

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much that we might almost
suppose that nothing escapes its

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view.
We remember only a small

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selection from our perceptions,
and of these even we keep a

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great part in the storeroom
where we cannot always lay our

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hand upon what we need.
The inner being retains

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everything that it has ever
received.

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And has it always ready to hand.
We conform into coordinated

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understanding and knowledge.
Only so much of our perceptions

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and memories as our trained
intelligence and mental capacity

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can grasp in their sense and
appreciate in their relations.

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The intelligence of the inner
being needs no training, but

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preserves the accurate form and
relations of all its perceptions

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and memories.
And though this is a proposition

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which may be considered doubtful
or difficult to concede, in its

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fullness, can grasp immediately,
when it does not possess already

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their significance.
And its perceptions are not

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confined, as are ordinarily
those of the waking mind, to the

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scanty gleanings of the physical
senses, but extend far beyond,

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and use, as telepathic phenomena
of many kinds bear witness a

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subtle sense, the limits of
which are too wide to be easily

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fixed.
The relations between the

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surface will or impulsion and
the subliminal urge mistakenly

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described as unconscious or
subconscious, have not been

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properly studied, except in
regard to unusual and

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unorganized manifestations and
to certain morbidly abnormal

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phenomena of the diseased human
mind.

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But if we pursue our observation
far enough, we shall find that

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the cognition and will or
impulsive force of the inner

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being really stand behind the
whole conscious becoming.

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The latter represents only that
part of its secret endeavor and

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achievement which rises
successfully to the surface of

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our life.
To know our inner being is the

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first step towards a real self
knowledge.

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If we undertake this self
discovery and enlarge our

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knowledge of the subliminal
self, so conceiving it as to

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include in it our lower
subconscient and upper

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superconscient ends, we shall
discover that it is really this

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which provides the whole
material of our apparent being,

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and that our perceptions, our
memories, our effectuations of

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will and intelligence, are only
a selection from its

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perceptions, memories,
activities, and relations of

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will and intelligence.
Our very ego is only a minor and

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superficial formulation of its
self consciousness and self

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experience.
It is as it were, the urgency

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out of which the waves of our
conscious becoming arise.

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End Quote Reference Shriorobindo
and the Mother, The Hidden

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Forces of Life, chapter 2,
Hidden Forces within pages 30 to

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31.