The Soul and the Psychic Being

0:00 In his poem Savitry, Sri Aurobindo provides imagery to describe the nature and role of the soul and the significance of the psychic being hidden deep within, carrying our human experience and human life to its eventual fulfilment, Sri Aurobindo writes. But since she knows the toil of mind and life as a mother feels and shares her children's lives, she puts forth a small portion of herself, a being no bigger than the thumb of man, into a hidden region of the heart. To face the pang and to forget the bliss, to share the suffering and endure earth's wounds and labour mid the labour of the stars. This in US laughs and weeps, suffers the stroke, exalts in victory, struggles for the crown, identified with the mind and body and life it takes on itself their anguish and defeat bleeds with fate's whips and hangs upon the cross. Yet is the unwounded and immortal self supporting the actor in the human scene.

1:22 Through this she sends us her glory and her powers pushes to wisdom's heights. Through misery's gulfs. She gives us strength to do our daily task and sympathy that partakes of others grief and the little strength we have to help our race. We who must fill the role of the universe, acting itself out in a slight human shape and on our shoulders carry the struggling world. This in us the Godhead, small and marred. In this human portion of divinity she seats the greatness of the soul in time to uplift from light to light, from power to power, till on a heavenly peak it stands a king in body week, in its heart an invincible might.

2:20 It climbed, stumbling, held up by an unseen hand, a toiling spirit in a mortal shape. End Quote Reference Savitri, a legend in a simple book. 7 canto 5 citation. Shriya Robindo and the Mother. The psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution. Front matter.