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The First Movement of Aspiration for the Divine · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Seek thou to know that from which these creatures are born
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  where by being born they live and to which they go.
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  Hence, and enter again for that is the eternal Thus goes to
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  teaching of Varona to his son, bhrigu in the tight area.
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  Upanishad translation by SRI aurobindo in the upanishads
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  page, 275 We rarely stop and wonder about how it is we exist.
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  And for what reason, when we do have such thoughts, they are
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  frequently. In fact, mainly limited to the
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  physical processes of birth, life and death.
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  And do not focus on the larger picture of the universal
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  creation and our role within that larger creation When an
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  individual begins to consider the idea that there must be a
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  rationale behind existence that somehow this vast creation is
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  not purposeless and that it has not Arisen out of nothing and
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  somehow developed the entire complex world and indeed the
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  entire creation is entire perspective on life begins to
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  change. Ordinarily.
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  We live in a world of Illusion cut off from this larger reality
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  of existence and fixated solely on our little lives.
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  In the predefined and limited life.
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  That we are told is the sole important thing for us to focus
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  on. Family, School, career, survival
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  and enjoyment occupy. Most people a few those who have
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  speculated on the meaning of all of this, begin to seek for more
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  for answers, for understanding, and for unifying, our lives,
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  with the greater purpose, we somehow feel is out there.
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  The mother writes quote. The first movement of aspiration
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  is this? You have a kind of vague
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  Sensation that behind the universe.
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  There is something which is worth knowing, which is probably
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  for you, do not yet, know it. The only thing worth living for
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  which can connect you with the truth.
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  Something on which the universe depends but which does not
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  depend upon the universe something, which still escapes
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  your comprehension but which seems to you to be behind all
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  things. I have said here much more than
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  the majority of people feel about the thing, but this is the
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  beginning of the first aspiration to know that not to
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  live in this Perpetual falsehood where things are.
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  So perverted an artificial? This would be something pleasant
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  to find something that is worth living for and quote reference
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  SRI aurobindo, and the mother growing within the Ecology of
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  inner development, chapter 3 growth of Consciousness, basic
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  requisites Pages, 34 to 35