The Outer Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness of the External Being

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Modern-day Western psychological
researchers are finding that

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certain portions of the brain
are related to higher cognitive

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functions, logic, reasoning,
extrapolation imagination,

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projection analysis, and
classification.

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While some parts are in charge
of the purely mechanical control

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of things like bodily functions,
some are repositories of memory

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and some are receptors of
impulses, from the various

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senses.
Some control motor functions,

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and other parts are involved in
language capabilities, artistic

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ability, music ability, Etc, In
other words, the brain may carry

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out multiple different functions
in different areas.

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And yet, these are not all truly
functions, which we would call

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mental The use of MRI and other
measuring and testing tools

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available today.
Allow scientists to see how

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various different segments of
the brain, react to various

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types of stimuli or
functionality.

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All of this is part of a new
greater understanding that

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Western psychology is
developing.

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It brings them to the type of
knowledge already developed by

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yoga science Through the Ages
and refined organized developed

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and codified by SRI aurobindo,
as he explores yogic psychology.

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Dr. Dalal observes quote, there
are three main parts in the

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outer or Surface being the mind,
the mental, the life nature, the

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vital, and the body.
The physical each part has its

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own, distinct type of
Consciousness, though, in our

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ordinary awareness.
We are unable to distinguish

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among the mental vital and
physical constituents of our

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Consciousness and tend to regard
all these These diverse elements

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simply as our mind.
But in yoga psychology mind,

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refers specifically to the part
of the being, which has to do

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with cognition, and intelligence
with ideas with mental or

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thought, perceptions the
reactions of thoughts to things

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with the truly mental movements,
and formations, according to

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Sri, aurobindo The vital being
or life nature is made up of

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desires, feelings, instincts,
and impulses, the life energy.

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Which animates the body Prana is
an aspect of the vital The body

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to has its own distinct
Consciousness, which operates in

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the involuntary functionings of
the various bodily organs and

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physiological systems body
Consciousness is only part of

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the physical Consciousness.
The latter includes also the

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physical mind and the physical
vital, which will be presently

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explained. those separate and
distinct, the three main

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divisions of the outer being
just mentioned are

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interconnected and interact on
one another giving rise to

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distinguishable subdivisions in
the main parts of the being

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Thus, besides the thinking mind
the Mind proper, there is a

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vital mind, which is the part of
the mind that is intermixed with

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the vital, the vital mind.
Unlike the thinking mind is not

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governed by reason, but is
dominated by impulses and

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desires of the vital and seeks
to justify and rationalize

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actions which are based on
impulses and desires of the

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vital.
Another subdivision is the

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physical mind, which is the part
of the mind that is intermixed

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with the physical and partakes
of the characteristics of the

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physical Consciousness, such as
inertia obscurity, and

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mechanical repetitiveness, which
manifest in the physical mind,

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as mental, torpor, and
conservatism, doubt, and

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obsessive thoughts.
The part of the mind, which is

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closest to the physical is, Is
called The Mechanical Mind.

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Its characteristic is that of a
machine that goes on turning

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round and round whenever
thoughts occur in it.

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Another subdivision, which is
important for self.

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Understanding, is the physical
vital.

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It is the part of the vital,
which is turned in tireli upon

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physical things, and is full of
desires and speakings for

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pleasure on the physical plane.
Closely connected with it is the

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vital physical, the part of the
vital force, which constitutes

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the nervous being, it is the
vehicle of the nervous responses

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and is related to the reactions
desires and sensations of the

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body.
End quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo and the mother, our
many selves practical yogic

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psychology introduction SRI
aurobindo on our midi selves.

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Planes and parts of the being
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