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The Growth of the Soul · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is the normal process of nature that each being each
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  individual experiences life interacts with his environment
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  and with other individuals and forms there, by his physical,
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  being his vital being, and his mental being through these
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  interactions. What is not easily recognized
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  due to the Unseen Central being around which these aspects form
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  and develop, is that this process systematically provides
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  a never richer basis of experience and growth to the
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  soul, the psychic being for a long time.
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  This growth process is something that occurs slowly and steadily
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  across countless lifetimes. At a point when the individual
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  becomes conscious of the soul and its growth, it becomes
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  possible to focus the attention on this development and the
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  Soul, can then more swiftly move to provide more Direction and
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  guidance to the process and accentuate its progress in this
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  direction. The mother provides guidance
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  about how the souls progress can be accentuated and made the
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  central focus of an individual's life experience.
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  Once he becomes aware of it, a disciple asks how can one make
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  one psychic personality grow? The mother answers quote.
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  It is through all the experiences of life that the
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  psychic personality forms grows develops and finally becomes a
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  complete conscious and free being this process of
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  development goes on tirelessly through innumerable lives.
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  And if one is not conscious of it, it is because one is not
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  conscious of one's psychic being for.
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  That is the indispensable. Starting point through interior,
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  ization and concentration. One has to enter into conscious
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  contact with one psychic being. The psychic being always has an
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  influence on the outer being But that influence is almost always
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  a cult. Neither seen, nor perceived nor
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  felt save on truly exceptional occasions.
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  In order to strengthen the contact and Aid, if possible the
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  development of the conscious psychic personality one.
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  Should while concentrating turn towards it aspire to know it and
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  feel it open oneself to receive its influence and take great
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  care. Each time.
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  That one receives an indication from it, to follow it, very
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  scrupulously, and sincerely to live in a great aspiration.
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  To take care to become inwardly, calm and remain.
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  So, always, as far as possible to cultivate a perfect sincerity
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  in all the activities of ones being these are the essential
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  conditions for the growth of the psychic being in quote reference
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  SRI, aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of
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  inner development. Chapter 8, the psychic being and
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  inner growth pages. N62 161.