Inner Being

The Inner Being in Sri Aurobindo's yoga and integral psychology is the wider and more plastic subliminal faculty of one's being, that lies behind the narrow surface consciousness.

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Sri Aurobindo - Yoga - Integral psychology - Surface consciousness

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As with many esotericists, along with Jungian and Transpersonal psychologists, Sri Aurobindo speaks of larger and deeper potentials of human nature, which can be contacted through spiritual discipline and higher states of consciousness. This Inner Being includes the inner realms or aspects of the physical, vital, and mental being, which here have a larger, subtler, freer consciousness than in the small outer mental, vital, and physical nature of everyday consciousness and experience, and its realisation is essential for any higher spiritual realisation. The Inner Being is also transitional between the surface or Outer Being and the Psychic Being, which is also for this reason known as the "Innermost Being". Outer, Inner, and Innermost Being form a "concentric" sequence or hierarchy, which is a counterpart to the "vertical" hierarchy of Physical, Vital, and Mental.

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Esotericists - Physical - Vital - Mental - Psychic Being

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