Understanding the Separate Aspects of Being That Make Up the Human Individual’s Personality
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pp. 1-2 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/24/understanding-the-separate-aspects-of-being-that-make-up-the-human-individuals-personality/
0:01 Most people look at what they consider to be their personality in a very simple and straightforward manner. The mixture of ideas thought process emotional responses, vital reactions, desires and physical needs. And Cravings is simply who they are. When they conclude that something needs to change, they try any number of strategies such as invoking resolutions, development of willpower, or even various forms of self Education and Training of some aspect of their being. In all of this, they tend not to identify nor recognize the different aspects of their being and the different energetic forces at work in these various. Levels.
0:54 It is at this point that the psychological wisdom of the chakras becomes evident. The chakras are subtle energy centers that successively respond to and transmit different types of energies Associated, either with the physical being the vital being or the mental being in an ascending order of development. The chakra system implicitly has to recognize that there are various different types of energy that work on different levels of the being, and it thereby opens up an entire range of human psychological understanding that is not widely appreciated nor understood in the West. The mother notes quote, the ordinary human being is conscious only in his physical being and only in relatively rare moments, is he conscious of his mind just a little more frequently of his vital.
1:55 But all this is mixed up in his Consciousness so much so that he would be quite unable to say, this movement comes from the mind this from the vital, this from the physical This already asks for a considerable development in order to be able to distinguish within oneself. The source of the different movements one has and it is so mixed that even when one tries at the beginning, it is very difficult to classify and separate one thing from another It is as when one works with colors takes three or four or five different colors and puts them in the same water and beat them up together, it makes a gray indistinct and incomprehensible mixture.
2:46 You see and one can't say, which is red, which blue, which Greenwich yellow, it is something dirty. Lots of colors mixed. So first of all, one must do this little work of Separating the red blue, yellow green, putting them like this each and it's corner. It is not at all easy. I have met people who used to think themselves extremely intelligent by the way who thought they knew a lot. And when I spoke to them about the different parts of the being they looked at me like this and ask me, but what are you speaking about? They did not understand at all. I am, speaking of people who have the reputation of being intelligent, they don't understand at all for them. It is just the Consciousness, it is. The Consciousness, it is my Consciousness, and then there is the neighbors Consciousness.
3:45 And again, there are things which do not have any Consciousness. And then I asked them whether animals had a Consciousness. So they began to scratch their head and said, perhaps it is, we who put our Consciousness in the animal. When we look at it like that reference SRI aurobindo in the mother, Our many selves practical yogic psychology chapter one, our manifold being Pages, 1 to 2.
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