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Obtaining a Clear Perception and Understanding of Life Purpose and Significance · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  If we examine closely our mental state, when we undertake
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  activities, with which we are familiar, experienced and
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  educated, we see that our minds are sharp.
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  Our perceptions are detailed. And our understanding is
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  precise, we find it easiest to achieve this status with
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  external things, although some with the developed intellect can
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  apply this to abstract matter, such as mathematical.
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  Malai or complex games such as chess.
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  Contrast this, with the way we generally experience our sense
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  of our mission in life are past development and the trend of
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  that development into the future.
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  For most of us, we get vague intimations some who practice
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  past life regression or various forms of hypnosis in an attempt
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  to unlock the hidden areas of our subconscious being except
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  that they are getting clear insights into their past lives.
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  In some cases, of course, there is a very clear perception.
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  But in others we find again some vague intimations and possibly
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  the working of unconscious suggestion or desire to create
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  these past lives in the image of what.
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  We want them to be, what is missing is the kind of sharp
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  clear, distinct perception that we obtain.
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  When we look at specific fields of endeavor in our surface lives
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  How then can we actually understand the significance and
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  purpose of Our Lives? If all we generally obtain are
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  these amorphous, feelings or intimations?
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  It is possible to enter into a status of Consciousness where
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  when actually sees clearly why one has been born into this life
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  and into these circumstances and one understands what one has to
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  do? This comes about when the soul
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  the psychic being comes forward and takes over active guidance
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  of the life from in front, not just as intimations from behind.
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  Sometimes an event occurs which dramatically provides an opening
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  to the deeper being dannion, Brinkley reported that he was
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  struck by lightning, was clinically dead for 28 minutes
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  and when he returned to life, he was aware of the purpose of his
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  life and his mission, which he described in his
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  autobiographical work Saved By the Light near-death.
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  Experiences seem to frequently bring an opening for people to
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  understand their Lives in a deeper and more precise Manner
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  and in some cases, they reorient.
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  The entire direction that the Des life had taken heretofore
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  Intense spiritual experiences may have a similar result.
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  The transformative impact of such an experience is
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  Illustrated in the story in the Bible about Saul on the road to
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  Damascus. And his subsequent conversion to
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  become Paul, the Apostle of Jesus He recognized his mission
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  in life, through that experience, such events
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  underlie, many of the stories of Awakening to the deeper sense of
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  life, that permeate Human Experience Through the Ages.
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  The mother writes quote, there is such a great difference
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  between feeling vaguely, having a hesitant impression of
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  something of a force, a movement, an impulse and
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  attraction of something, which drives you in life.
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  It is still so vague so uncertain, it is hazy.
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  There is such a difference between this and having a Clear
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  Vision and exact perception, a total understanding of the
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  meaning of one's life. And only then does one begin to
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  see things as they are not before.
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  Only then can one follow the thread of one's Destiny.
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  And clearly see the goal in the way to reach it.
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  But that happens only through successive.
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  Inner Awakenings like doors opening suddenly on New
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  Horizons, truly a new birth, into a truer deeper more lasting
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  Consciousness, until then you live in a cloud gropingly, under
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  the weight of a destiny which had times crushes.
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  You gives you the feeling of having been made in a certain
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  way and being unable to do anything about it.
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  You are under the burden of an existence, which weighs you down
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  makes you crawl on the ground instead of rising above and
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  seeing all the threads, The Guiding threads, the threads,
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  which bind different things into a single movement of
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  progression. Towards a realization that grows
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  clear When my spring up out of this half Consciousness, which
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  is usually considered quite natural, this is your normal way
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  of being and you did not even draw back from it.
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  Sufficiently to be able to see and wonder at this in certitude,
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  this lack of precision. While on the contrary to know
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  that one is seeking and to seek consciously deliberately
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  steadfastly and methodically this indeed is the exceptional
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  almost abnormal condition and yet only in this way.
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  Does one begin to truly live and quote reference SRI aurobindo in
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  the mother growing within the psychology of inner development
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  chapter 1 emergence from Consciousness Pages, 12 to 13.