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The Complementary Aspects of Aspiration and Prayer · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Just as there is a debate between science and religion,
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  there is a corollary argument that encompasses aspiration
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  versus prayer. Aspiration for growth
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  development, knowledge progress, expansion is acceptable to those
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  in the science camp. Prayer is relegated by these
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  individuals to the religion Camp.
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  Similarly, those who believe ardently in the power of prayer.
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  Do not fully believe in the efficacy of an inner
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  aspirational own. The relation of these two
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  Powers. However, is not so simply
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  delineated, nor can either one be dismissed.
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  Out of hand. They can indeed complement one
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  another. For those who do not believe in
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  any greater being in the universe, of course, prayer does
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  not factor into the equation. For those already accepting such
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  a greater being Creator or God prayer is central for the vast
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  majority of people, however, who are somewhere between these two
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  extremes. Another Viewpoint can harmonize
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  them aspiration can be seen as the directing force and impetus
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  for the growth and development of the individuals powers and
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  the expansion of the individuals basis of knowledge.
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  Prayer can be seen as the outer body providing concrete form in
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  the external existence to what the aspiration is developing
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  inwardly. The artist, the writer, the
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  composer all developed their Concepts inwardly, but Express
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  them in the world to impact others and have their influence
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  in the world through the outer form, they give to these
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  Concepts. Similarly prayer provides such
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  an outer framework to embody the aspiration and bring it to life
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  in the world. The mother notes quote.
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  So the more intellectual people admit aspiration and say, that
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  prayer is something inferior. The mystics tell you, that
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  aspiration is all very well, but if you want to be really heard
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  and want the Divine to listen to you, you must pray and pray with
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  the Simplicity of a child, a perfect Candor, that is a
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  perfect Trust. I need this or that whether it
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  be a moral need, or a physical, or material need.
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  Well, I asked you for it. Give it to me to Aspire.
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  It is not necessary to direct the aspiration to someone
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  towards. Someone one has an aspiration
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  for a certain state of being, for knowledge for a realization
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  that State of Consciousness, one aspires for something, but it is
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  not necessarily A Prayer. Prayer is something additional
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  and quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 3 growth of Consciousness basic requisites
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  pages, 37 to 38,