May 7, 2026
The Soul Immediately Separates Truth from Falsehood
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Psychic Being — Soul: Its Nature, Mission and Evolution, Section 2 Role, Function and Action of the Psychic, pp. 50-51This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/the-soul-immediately-separates-truth-from-falsehood/
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Our minds can be confused or
manipulated.
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We can misinterpret what we see
or hear or feel.
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Our vital nature can be LED
astray by the promptings of
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various vital reactions,
including desire, lust, anger,
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as well as feelings the external
nature considers positive as
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well as negative.
Our physical being can be lulled
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into complacency by comfort,
having its hunger and thirst and
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other basic needs met.
Our external ego personality can
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be misled through appeals to
vanity, to the appearances, to
10
00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,560
status.
All of these things wind up
11
00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:47,200
distorting our understanding of
what is true and what is false.
12
00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,080
They lead to mistakes in
understanding, judgment and
13
00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,600
action.
They are mutable, subject to
14
00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:01,360
change as we age, As we undergo
the changes that take place in
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00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:06,440
the external life, we find the
distortions compounding and at
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00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,600
the same time creating a rigid
framework that is unwilling or
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unable to break out of the wall
of falsehood that we have built
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through a lifetime of reactions.
We thus tend to address our
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changing circumstances with a
fixed and rigid view built up
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through the habits of a
lifetime, the expectations built
21
00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,080
up through our training,
education, and the expectations
22
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of our social setting.
The soul is of another character
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as the spark of the Divine.
The soul knows the truth of our
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existence not by the slow
process of fact gathering,
25
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sorting, comparison and
analysis, but by virtue of the
26
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fact that it is itself
identified with the truth of
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existence.
The vibrations it receives
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either resonate with that truth
or not.
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00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,080
It thus immediately knows when
something false has been
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00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,320
presented to it, just as it
knows when the resonance
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conforms to the truth of
existence.
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The soul is not insistent as it
knows that the development of
33
00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:23,720
the body, life and mind, the
ego, personality and the
34
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maturation process that takes
place needs time and freedom.
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It knows and does not generally
impose itself until the being
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itself calls for the truth,
Trigurobindo writes quote at the
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beginning.
The soul in nature, the psychic
38
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entity whose unfolding is the
first step towards a spiritual
39
00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:54,680
change, is an entirely veiled
part of us, although it is that
40
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by which we exist and persist as
individual beings in nature.
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The other parts of our natural
composition are not only mutable
42
00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,560
but perishable.
But the psychic entity in US
43
00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,360
persists and is fundamentally
the same always.
44
00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,520
It contains all essential
possibilities of our
45
00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,160
manifestation, but is not
constituted by them.
46
00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,720
It is not limited by what it
manifests, not contained by the
47
00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:28,520
incomplete forms of the
manifestation, not tarnished by
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the imperfections and
impurities, the defects and
49
00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,840
deprivations of the surface
being.
50
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It is an ever pure flame of the
divinity in things, and nothing
51
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that comes to it, nothing that
enters into our experience, can
52
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pollute its purity or extinguish
the flame.
53
00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,840
This spiritual stuff is
Immaculate and luminous, and
54
00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,960
because it is perfectly
luminous, it is immediately,
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intimately, directly aware of
truth of being and truth of
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00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,480
nature.
It is deeply conscious of truth
57
00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,680
and good and beauty, because
truth and good and beauty are
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akin to its own native character
forms of something that is
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inherent in its own substance.
It is aware also of all that
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contradicts these things, of all
that deviates from its own
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native character of falsehood
and evil and the ugly and the
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unseemly.
But it does not become those
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things, nor is it touched or
changed by these opposites of
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00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,960
itself which so powerfully
affect its outer instrumentation
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of mind, life, and body.
For the soul, the permanent
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00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:48,480
being us puts forth and uses
mind, life and body as its
67
00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,720
instruments, undergoes the
envelopment of their conditions,
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but is other and greater than
its members.
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End Quote.
Reference Srioro Bindu and the
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Mother, the psychic being soul,
its nature, mission and
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00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,600
evolution.
Section 2.
72
00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,800
Role, function and Action of the
Psychic.
73
00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,200
Pages 50 to 51.
00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,520
Our minds can be confused or
manipulated.
2
00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,680
We can misinterpret what we see
or hear or feel.
3
00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,680
Our vital nature can be LED
astray by the promptings of
4
00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:16,360
various vital reactions,
including desire, lust, anger,
5
00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:21,640
as well as feelings the external
nature considers positive as
6
00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,440
well as negative.
Our physical being can be lulled
7
00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:29,400
into complacency by comfort,
having its hunger and thirst and
8
00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:34,160
other basic needs met.
Our external ego personality can
9
00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:38,680
be misled through appeals to
vanity, to the appearances, to
10
00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,560
status.
All of these things wind up
11
00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:47,200
distorting our understanding of
what is true and what is false.
12
00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,080
They lead to mistakes in
understanding, judgment and
13
00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,600
action.
They are mutable, subject to
14
00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:01,360
change as we age, As we undergo
the changes that take place in
15
00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:06,440
the external life, we find the
distortions compounding and at
16
00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,600
the same time creating a rigid
framework that is unwilling or
17
00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,560
unable to break out of the wall
of falsehood that we have built
18
00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:19,400
through a lifetime of reactions.
We thus tend to address our
19
00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,480
changing circumstances with a
fixed and rigid view built up
20
00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,400
through the habits of a
lifetime, the expectations built
21
00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,080
up through our training,
education, and the expectations
22
00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:36,880
of our social setting.
The soul is of another character
23
00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:41,800
as the spark of the Divine.
The soul knows the truth of our
24
00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,920
existence not by the slow
process of fact gathering,
25
00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:51,000
sorting, comparison and
analysis, but by virtue of the
26
00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,160
fact that it is itself
identified with the truth of
27
00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,520
existence.
The vibrations it receives
28
00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,000
either resonate with that truth
or not.
29
00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,080
It thus immediately knows when
something false has been
30
00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,320
presented to it, just as it
knows when the resonance
31
00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,840
conforms to the truth of
existence.
32
00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,840
The soul is not insistent as it
knows that the development of
33
00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:23,720
the body, life and mind, the
ego, personality and the
34
00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,320
maturation process that takes
place needs time and freedom.
35
00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:33,600
It knows and does not generally
impose itself until the being
36
00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:41,640
itself calls for the truth,
Trigurobindo writes quote at the
37
00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:44,800
beginning.
The soul in nature, the psychic
38
00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,880
entity whose unfolding is the
first step towards a spiritual
39
00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:54,680
change, is an entirely veiled
part of us, although it is that
40
00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:59,560
by which we exist and persist as
individual beings in nature.
41
00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,040
The other parts of our natural
composition are not only mutable
42
00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,560
but perishable.
But the psychic entity in US
43
00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,360
persists and is fundamentally
the same always.
44
00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,520
It contains all essential
possibilities of our
45
00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,160
manifestation, but is not
constituted by them.
46
00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,720
It is not limited by what it
manifests, not contained by the
47
00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:28,520
incomplete forms of the
manifestation, not tarnished by
48
00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,120
the imperfections and
impurities, the defects and
49
00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,840
deprivations of the surface
being.
50
00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,000
It is an ever pure flame of the
divinity in things, and nothing
51
00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,520
that comes to it, nothing that
enters into our experience, can
52
00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,720
pollute its purity or extinguish
the flame.
53
00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,840
This spiritual stuff is
Immaculate and luminous, and
54
00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,960
because it is perfectly
luminous, it is immediately,
55
00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:02,200
intimately, directly aware of
truth of being and truth of
56
00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,480
nature.
It is deeply conscious of truth
57
00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,680
and good and beauty, because
truth and good and beauty are
58
00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:14,400
akin to its own native character
forms of something that is
59
00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,800
inherent in its own substance.
It is aware also of all that
60
00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:23,200
contradicts these things, of all
that deviates from its own
61
00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:27,080
native character of falsehood
and evil and the ugly and the
62
00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,280
unseemly.
But it does not become those
63
00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:34,080
things, nor is it touched or
changed by these opposites of
64
00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,960
itself which so powerfully
affect its outer instrumentation
65
00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:42,520
of mind, life, and body.
For the soul, the permanent
66
00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:48,480
being us puts forth and uses
mind, life and body as its
67
00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,720
instruments, undergoes the
envelopment of their conditions,
68
00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,640
but is other and greater than
its members.
69
00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:01,040
End Quote.
Reference Srioro Bindu and the
70
00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:05,480
Mother, the psychic being soul,
its nature, mission and
71
00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,600
evolution.
Section 2.
72
00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,800
Role, function and Action of the
Psychic.
73
00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,200
Pages 50 to 51.
