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Each plane of our being — mental, vital, physical
— has its own consciousness, separate though
interconnected and interacting; but to our outer
mind and sense, in our waking experience, they are
all confused together. The body, for instance, has its
own consciousness and acts from it, even without
any mental will of our own or even against that
will, and our surface mind knows very little about
this body-consciousness, feels it only in an imperfect
way, sees only its results and has the greatest
difficulty in finding out their causes. It is part of the
yoga to become aware of this separate consciousness
of the body, to see and feel its movements and the
forces that act upon it from inside or outside and to
learn how to control and direct it even in its most
hidden and (to us) subconscient processes.

— Sri Aurobindo