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An Exercise to Overcome the Mental Bias to Facilitate the Ability to “Know Thyself” · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Once we recognize that we cannot trust the mental faculty to keep
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  the vital desire soul in check. The question arises as to how it
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  is, then possible to truly examine the underlying motives
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  and Wellsprings of our thoughts feelings and actions without
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  falling victim to the kind of bias that the vital influence on
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  the mind creates, without such a mechanism.
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  We have little hope of effectuating, any real and
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  Lasting change in human nature. The mother proposes, a
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  methodology that bypasses the ordinary mental justification
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  process, rather it puts each thought, feeling and action up
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  in front of the screen of the psychic being the sole entity
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  and its highest aspiration, and filters them, according to their
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  adherence, to the highest standards and Aspirations of the
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  Soul without concern for the vital desire, or the mental
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  justification, the mother observes quote.
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  If, in your mind, you go over the various movements and
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  reactions of the day like one repeating indefinitely the same
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  thing, you will not progress if this reviewing is to make you
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  progress, you must find something within you in whose
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  light you can. Be yourself your own judge
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  something which represents for you, the best part of yourself,
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  which has some light, some Goodwill, and which precisely is
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  in love with progress. Place that before you and first
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  pass across it as in a cinema. All that you have done all that.
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  You have felt your impulses, your thoughts, Etc.
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  Then try to coordinate them. That is find out why this is
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  followed that. And look at the Luminous screen
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  that is, before you certain things pass by well, without
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  throwing a shadow. Others on the contrary, throw a
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  little Shadow others Yet. Cast a shadow all together black
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  and disagreeable you must do this.
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  Very sincerely as though you were playing a game under such
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  circumstances, I did such and such a thing feeling like this
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  and thinking in this way I have before me my ideal of knowledge
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  and self-mastery. Well, was this act in keeping
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  with my ideal or not? If it was, it would not leave
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  any shadow on the screen, which would remain transparent.
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  And when would not have to worry about it, if it is not in
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  Conformity, it casts a shadow. Why has it left the shadow?
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  What was there in this act? That was contrary to the will to
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  self-knowledge and self-mastery. And co-reference, SRI, aurobindo
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  and the mother living within the yoga approach to psychological
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  health and growth exercises for growth and Mastery
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  self-observation and self-organization Pages 126 to
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  131.