The Voice of the Soul -- Distinguishing the Aspiration of the Psychic Being

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Most people have their spiritual
motivation filtered through

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their external personality.
If the mind is their predominant

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part, then it may take a mental
turn.

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If the vital, then a vital turn.
If the physical, a physical turn

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in the life Divine.
Sri Robindo describes the human

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aspiration as grounded in the
seeking for God, light, freedom

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and immortality.
The pure expression of the soul,

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the psychic being, is turned
always towards the Divine.

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We hear many voices in our inner
dialogue.

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Sometimes it is the voice of the
mental being and it tries to

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develop ideas, concepts and a
logical framework in its seeking

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for knowledge.
Sometimes it is the voice of the

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vital desire soul, which wants
to acquire power, wealth, sex,

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fame and dominion.
Sometimes it is the voice of the

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physical body, setting forth its
needs, its comforts, and its

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demands.
We are habituated to hear these

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voices and respond to them.
Thus we frequently fail to heed

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the quiet voice of the soul,
which does not insist or demand,

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but which simply aspires.
We may mistake the mental or

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vital voice for the voice of the
soul when they have been

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influenced by the psychic being,
and turn at least partially

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towards the Divine.
These represent steps along the

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way.
As the wise sage often says, any

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door which opens to the Divine
should be accepted as a starting

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point or an intermediate step
along the way, until such time

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as the soul can directly express
its deepest aspirations and gain

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the adherents and support of the
external being in all its parts.

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Sriorobindo writes quote.
People mean different things

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when they speak of the soul.
Sometimes it is what I have

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called in the Aria the desire
soul, that is the vital with its

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mixed aspirations, desires
hungers of all kinds, good and

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bad, its emotions finer and
grosser, or sensational urges

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crossed by the mind's
idealizings and psychic

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stresses.
But sometimes it is also the

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mind and vital under the stress
of a psychic urge.

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The psychic, so long as it is
veiled, must express itself

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through the mind and vital, and
its aspirations are mixed and

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coloured there by the vital and
mental stuff.

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Thus the veiled psychic urge may
express itself in the mind by a

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hunger in the thought for the
knowledge of the Divine, what

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the Europeans call the
intellectual love of God in the

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vital.
It may express itself as a

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hunger or a hankering after the
Divine.

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It can bring much suffering
because of the nature of the

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vital, its unquiet passions,
desires, ardors, troubled

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emotions, cloudings,
depressions, despairs.

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Nevertheless, all cannot
approach, at least cannot at

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once approach the Divine in the
pure psychic way.

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The mental and vital approaches
are often necessary beginnings

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and better from the spiritual
point of view than

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unsensitiveness to the Divine.
It is in both cases a call of

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the soul, the soul's urge.
It only takes a form or color

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due to the stress of the mind or
vital nature and quote reference

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Sri aurobindo and the Mother the
psychic being soul, its nature,

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mission and evolution.
Section 1.

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Meaning and Nature of the
Psychic Being, pages 21 to 22.