Unifying One's Being Summary

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Becoming Conscious

To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action... In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre.

Organisation, Harmonisation, Unification

The centre of the human being is psychic which is the dwelling-place of the immanent Divine. Unification means organisation and harmonisation of all parts of the being (mental, vital and physical) around this center, so that all the activities of the being may be the correct expression of the will of the Divine Presence.

The first step is to find, deep within oneself, behind the desires and impulses, a luminous consciousness which is always present and manifests the physical being... One has, then, to come into conscious contact with that and learn to do so at will. The rest will

In conclusion, to become a whole, we first need to become a well-knit individualised being who receives from outside only what he wants to receive, then become conscious of the different parts of the being and their respective activities, finally find within ourselves a luminous consciousness around which we can organise, harmonise and unify.

Finally as Sri Aurobindo cautions us that it cannot be done from the outside, by the mind or the vital; it can only be done from within the soul.

Read more about Unifying One's Being from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.