A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies
June 24, 2023

The Psychic Being and Transformation

The Psychic Being and Transformation
The Psychic Being and Transformation
Sri Aurobindo Studies
The Psychic Being and Transformation

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the Being, pp. xxxiv-xxxv This episode is also available as a podcast at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/21/the-psychic-being-and-transformation/


0:01 As long as we remain rooted in the awareness of Mind, life body, we see the world and our existence as a fragmented collection of separate objects beings and forces, and we act, as if we are separate and distinct from everything else, the spiritual transformation of Consciousness, involves a shift of standpoint to, that of Oneness. We can see and experience the unity of the entire creation and can act from the deeper intention of that unified existence. The lynchpin of the change in Awareness is the shift from the surface being of Mind, life body to the inmost, being the sole or psychic being which is the aspect within us that is in touch with the Divine and which thereby allows us us to transcend the surface ego consciousness. Dr. Dalal writes quote in spiritual experience. There exists One, Soul being one, sole existence, which Embraces all beings and existing things in the universe and which in spiritual realization is experienced as the oneself of all things and creatures.

1:27 But in our ordinary experience, we perceive the world as inhabited, by a plurality of beings and things existing, outside what we felt to be our self, this is because our true self described previously. As the purusa, who is one with the self of all things and beings has identified itself through ignorance with prakruti, its outer instrumental Nature Made. Tup of body life and mind this identification of purusa with prakruti has led to the formation in US of an ego physical, vital and mental, which gives us the sense of a self that is separate from the rest of the universe. Thus, it is the ego that gives rise to the distinction, ingrained, in our ordinary Consciousness between, what we feel to br, Yourself and the rest of the universe, which is perceived as not self.

2:33 Also, it is the ego physical vital and mental, which due to its complexity and heterogeneity leads to the formation of multiple selves, or personalities, causing division, conflict, disharmony, and disorganization in our outer being Harmonization. And unification of the outer being can be brought about only by discovering our inmost, being chaitanya, purusa or the psychic being and organizing the outer being around the psychic as its Center and governing principle.

3:18 The aim of spiritual quest in the past has generally been to obtain Liberation from the bondage to suffering caused by the illusory sense of a separate self. The ego and thereby escape from the Perpetual cycle of birth and death. According to Sri aurobindo the farther goal of spiritual Evolution Beyond Liberation consists in the transformation of the instruments of the spirit. It's mine life and body. So as to establish the kingdom of the spirit on Earth, it is when the outer being is Unified and governed by the psychic being that the transformation of Mind life and body becomes possible as SRI. Aurobindo State quote, the psychic being supports the Mind. Vital body Grows by their experiences carries the Teacher from Life To Life.

4:21 At first, it is veiled by mind vital and body. But as it grows, it becomes capable of coming forward and dominating the Mind, life and Body in the ordinary man. It depends on them for expression and is not able to take them up and freely use them. The life of the being is animal or human and not divine. When the psychic being can buy sadhna, become dominant and freely. Use its instruments. Then the impulse towards the Divine becomes complete and the transformation of Mind, vital and body, not merely their Liberation becomes possible and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother. Our many selves practical yogic psychology in Traduction. SRI aurobindo on our mini selves planes and parts of the being Pages Roman 34 to 35.

5:17 Traduction. SRI aurobindo on our mini selves planes and parts of the being Pages Roman 34 to 35.