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that the soul-space gives access also to the emotions and ideas but an integrated Self
soul-poise in its evolving mode; it is the ready to vertically ascend the stairs of
projection of the unmanifest Self in the consciousness as well as to horizontally
manifestation as the evolving Self. The expand into universality.
Mother and Sri Aurobindo named this
evolving Self as the Psychic Being (Caitya-
Purussa). An experiential contact with the
Psychic Being brings the realisation of the
most intense movements of love, bliss,
rapture, joy, sweetness, devotion, faith,
aspiration for the Divine, Godward-parleys,
peace, purity, unity and beauty in life. Its
very stuff is that of light and love; it is
unaffected by the polarities of emotions and
dualities of life; it is unaffected by suffering
or adversities; it radiates unalloyed joy,
unfaltering strength, infallible love and Soul-personality
undisturbed peace; its consciousness
outlives the universal lifespan. Each individual carries a divine spark that
organises over time in the evolutionary
Integration trajectory as a soul-personality in the form of
the Psychic Being. “This psychic being always
A pursuit of personal growth needs to integrate has an influence on the outer being, but that
the planes and parts of consciousness and influence is almost always occult, neither seen
harmonise the myriad facets of life around nor perceived nor felt, save on truly exceptional
the Psychic Being. The Mother explained, occasions (3).” The Psychic Being thus cannot
“The whole purpose of the Yoga is to gather act directly on the outer being; it needs
all the divergent parts together and forge them the support of the Inner Being. When the
into an undivided unity… This (the Psychic channels of communication or cakras between
Being) is the centre round which should come the outer Being and inner Being are optimally
about the unification of all these divergent activated, the outer Being and the Inner Being
parts, all these contradictory movements of fuse together and the ego can be replaced by
your being (1).” “Through interiorisation and the Psychic Being.
concentration one has to enter into conscious
contact with one’s psychic being (2).” The The Psychic Being or soul-personality, “….
Psychic Being is the true integrating and carries in it a sense of universality, limitless
harmonising principle in life, a task that expansion, unbroken continuity (4).”
the ego cannot perform properly. The
first major step in personal growth is to It allows one to decentralise, widen the
replace the ego with the Psychic Being. consciousness, break the barriers separating
It is only then that the individual is not individuals and thus enables one, “…. to
an amorphous chaos of sensations, live in the life of all” …. it is thus “…. a great

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