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Sri Aurobindo | The Mother
Third edition | 07.2025

“The soul, the psychic being, is in direct touch with the divine Truth, but it is hidden in man by the mind, the vital being and the physical nature (manas, prana, anna of the Taittiriya Upanishad). One may practise Yoga and get illuminations in the mind and the reason; one may conquer power and luxuriate in all kinds of experiences in the vital; one may establish even surprising physical siddhis; but if the true soul-power behind does not manifest, if the psychic nature does not come into the front, nothing genuine has been done. In this Yoga, the psychic being is that which opens the rest of the nature to the true supramental light and finally to the supreme Ananda.” (Sri Aurobindo)

Contents

I. PRELIMINARY

1. Soul – A Vaguely Used Word
2. What is “Myself”
3. False Soul and the True Soul
4. Unique Role of the Psychic Being

II. WHAT IS THE SOUL?

1. Brahman – The Absolute
2. Atman – The Self (The Spirit)
3. Jivatman – The Individual Self (The Central Being)
4. Antaratman – The Psychic and Chaitya Purusha – The Psychic Being

III. HOW TO FIND THE SOUL

1. Importance of the Finding of the Soul
2. How to Find the Soul
3. Help of Images
4. To Catch the End of the Guiding Thread
5. Two Levers to Touch the Soul
6. Reaching the Soul by Listening to It
7. Perception of the Soul – Various Methods
8. Questions and Answers
9. Mother’s Advice to the Aspirants
10. Discovery of the Soul – Its Purpose
11. Discovery of the Soul – Its Base
12. Discovery of the Soul – Its Discipline
13. Resistances to the Soul’s Emergence
14. Next Step in Our Evolutionary Destiny