The Psychic Being Carries the Essence of the Soul's Experience from Life to Life

0:01 We tend to look at things through the standpoint of the external physical being, the body, life and mind with which we identify. From this standpoint, we treat the soul as something that we need to search for, if we even acknowledge the existence of the soul, and as something secondary to and therefore less important than the goals we set for ourselves to live and enjoy the external life. Few are those individuals who look at things differently and see the soul as the primary controller and driver of our lives and the external activities as secondary and subordinate to the soul's intention.

0:43 We wonder about the meaning of life from the external standpoint. It is difficult to determine why it is we have to be born, grow, struggle through our lives, and then die if there is nothing more. If we shift to the standpoint of the soul, however, we can see that there is a progressive manifestation in which we are participants that extends far beyond the time frame of a single lifetime. The Bhagavad Gita explains quote. The embodied soul casts away old and takes up new bodies as a man changes, worn out.

1:23 Raymond for new. End Quote from Srioro Bindo Bhagwad Gita and its Message Chapter 2 verse 22. Srioro Bindo comments on chapter 18 verse 47 of the Gita when he states quote the Jiva is in self-expression a portion of the Supreme Spirit. He is in his personality, that power. He brings out in an individual existence the potentialities of the soul of the universe. This Jiva itself is spirit and not the natural ego. The spirit and not the form of ego is our reality and inner soul principle. The spiritual nature which has become this multiple personality in the universe is the basic stuff of our existence. All the rest is lower derivation and outer formation from a highest hidden activity of the spirit. End Quote Bhagavad Gita and its Message, Chapter 18, page 269 Sri Aurobindo Notes Quote What is meant in the terminology of the Yoga by the psychic is the sole element in the nature, the pure psyche or divine nucleus which stands behind mind, life and body.

2:47 It is not the ego, but of which we are only dimly aware. It is a portion of the Divine and permanent from life to life, taking the experience of life through its outer instruments. As this experience grows, it manifests A developing psychic personality which, insisting always on the good, true and beautiful, finally becomes ready and strong enough to turn the nature towards the Divine. It can then come entirely forward, breaking through the mental, vital and physical screen, govern the instincts and transform the nature.

3:27 Nature no longer imposes itself on the soul, but the soul, the Purusha, imposes its dictates on the nature. End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindu and the Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution Section 1. Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being, Page 4.