Dr. Soumitra Basu
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Dr. Soumitra Basu, a practising psychiatrist and member of SAIIIHR, is the Director of a school of psychology, Integral Yoga Psychology. He is also one of the editors of NAMAH.
Articles by Dr. Soumitra Basu (115)
The Occult Resistance
By Dr. Soumitra Basu — Jan 15, 2026
The aspirant for personal growth, even after advancing long on the path, is always vulnerable to unforeseen, unexpected occult attacks. Paradoxically, some of these occult attacks may result when the...
Dealing with the Subconscious and Inconscience
By Dr. Soumitra Basu — Oct 15, 2025
The Subconscious The programme of personal growth gets the greatest resistance from the subconscious (the Freudian Unconscious) and the Inconscience and dealing with them is an important part of the...
The Journey to the Soul-Space
By Dr. Soumitra Basu — Jul 15, 2025
We have not only an Outer Being (which is known as the personality in contemporary psychology) but a larger and vaster but subliminal Inner Being. Unlike the outer being, the Inner Being cannot be sustained by the ego, it needs to be supported by the inmost soul-essence or the Psychic Being. The Inmost Being occupies the soul-space deeper to the psychological space of the inner Being and the aspirant for personal growth has to traverse all other spaces to reach the soul-space.
Pursuit of Beauty
By Dr. Soumitra Basu — Jan 15, 2025
Dr. Soumitra Basu, a practising psychiatrist and member of SAIIIHR, is the Director of a school of psychology, Integral Yoga Psychology. He is also one of the editors of NAMAH.
Linking the Outer Being and the Inner Being
By Dr. Soumitra Basu — Jan 15, 2025
The pursuit of personal growth requires a thorough understanding of the planes and parts of the consciousness. Ordinarily, the term, ’personality’ as used in contemporary Western psychology, corresponds to what is known as the outer being in yoga psychology. Sri Aurobindo describes a vaster inner being or subliminal personality behind the outer being, which is in continuum with the universal consciousness. It is not the soul but intermediary between the soul-principle (also known as the inmost being and a projection of the central being poised beyond and above the manifestation).