Sri Aurobindo and the Mother say that the psychic entity is the eternal soul, while the psychic being is its evolving personality through many lifetimes. Could you kindly explain this distinction and why the psychic being is so central to the sadhana?
In your deepest truth, you are the Divine. It is true of everybody. But for the sake of the play, for the joy of the play, for the delight of the play, the Divine puts forth a little portion of itself and implants it in the cosmos as a seed is planted in the soil. This seed, an eternal portion of the Divine, is immortal and embodies the Divine possibilities within itself. As it passes through the cycle of rebirth, it begins to grow, evolve, bring out these Divine possibilities until one day it manifests its divinity fully. Then it is called as the psychic being. The psychic entity is the undeveloped seed, while the psychic being is its fully developed version.
Now, one can always abandon the process and finding the soul in its half-developed state, return back to the Divine Origin. It is like quitting the game halfway through and discover personal mukti. Others trust the Divine Wisdom that works in creation towards perfecting individual and collective life and choose to complete the full cycle of evolution and fulfill the original Divine Will that has gone into creation. Whether one will choose this or the other destiny is a freedom allowed to each soul after it reaches a certain point of development. Some choose the door of individual escape; others complete the full development and aspire for a collective Divine Life upon earth. It depends upon the core aspiration in each person.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
