reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pp. 4-5 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/understanding-the-mechanism-of-the-external-nature-and-the-way-to-overcome-its-limitations/