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=Our Manifold Being=
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, 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."
It is as when one works with colours, takes three or four or five different colours and puts them in the same water and beats them up together, it makes a grey, indistinct and incomprehensible mixture, you see, and one can't say which is red, which blue, which green, which yellow; it is something dirty, lots of colours mixed. So first of all one must do this little work of separating the red, blue, yellow, green - putting them like this, each in its corner. It is not at all easy.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/9-february-1955#p28,p29,p30</ref>
Man is not made up of one piece but of many pieces and each part of him has a personality of its own. That is a thing which people yet have not sufficiently realised - the psychologists have begun to glimpse it, but recognise only when there is a marked case of double or multiple personality. But all men are like that, in reality.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-parts-of-the-being#p7</ref>
An “entity" is a personality or an individuality. There are many such "personalities" in each one of us. These personalities do not agree with one another. What happens then? Conflicts, friction, inner disorder created by these individualities which are unable to get on with one another.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/30-december-1950#p11</ref>
So both The Mother and Sri Aurobindo validate the view held by me that there are many parts to one’s being, so first let's look at the various parts in us.
=Planes and Parts of the Being=