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Even when it is strong and clear and dominant, Mind, though it
imposes a certain, a considerable mentalised harmony, cannot
integrate the whole being and nature. These harmonisations
by an inferior control are, besides, inconclusive, because it is
one part of the nature which dominates and fulfils itself while
the others are coerced and denied their fullness. They can be
steps on the way, but not final; therefore in most men there
is no such sole dominance and effected partial harmony, but
only a predominance and for the rest an unstable equilibrium
of a personality half formed, half in formation, sometimes a dis-
equilibrium or unbalance due to the lack of a central govern-
ment or the disturbance of a formerly achieved partial poise.
All must be transitional until a first, though not a final, true
harmonisation is achieved by finding our real centre. For the
true central being is the soul, but this being stands back and in
most human natures is only the secret witness or, one might
say, a constitutional ruler who allows his ministers to rule for
him, delegates to them his empire, silently assents to their de-
cisions and only now and then puts in a word which they can
at any moment override and act otherwise. But this is so long
as the soul-personality put forward by the psychic entity is not
yet sufficiently developed; when this is strong enough for the
inner entity to impose itself through it, then the soul can come
forward and control the nature. It is by the coming forward of
this true monarch and his taking up of the reins of government
that there can take place a real harmonisation of our being and
our life.
CWSA 22: 933 Sri Aurobindo

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