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Spiritual Realisation Begins With Psychic Discipline · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In The Life Divine, Sri Robindo describes the triple
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  transformation that develops the human existence to a new status
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  through conscious evolutionary development.
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  The first transformation is what he calls the psychic
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  transformation. The psychic transformation is
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  the awakening to the soul, presence within, and organizing
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  the aspiration, consecration, life, focus, and direction
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  around the promptings of the soul.
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  People ask how to go about doing this when we recognize that the
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  human instrument is a receiving and transmitting instrument.
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  We can utilize this information by consciously turning our
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  attention to our psychic being, systematically moving our focus
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  inward, and opening ourselves to the influence that we begin to
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  experience as we undertake this practice, the Mother writes.
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  Quote. All this can be realized by
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  means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is
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  given here. The four aspects of the
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  discipline do not exclude each other and can be followed at the
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  same time. Indeed, this is preferable.
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  The starting point is what can be called the psychic
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  discipline. We give the name psychic to the
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  psychological center of our being, the seat within us of the
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  highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth
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  and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital
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  importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to
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  concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact
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  for us and we can identify ourselves with it.
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  In various times and places, many methods have been
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  prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately
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  achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological,
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  some religious, some even mechanical.
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  In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best,
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  and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a
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  persistent and dynamic will one is sure to meet in one way or
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  another. Outwardly, through reading and
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  study, inwardly through concentration, meditation,
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  revelation and experience. The help 1 needs to reach the
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  goal, one thing is absolutely indispensable, the will to
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  discover and to realize. This discovery and realization
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  should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the
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  Pearl of great price, which we must acquire at any cost.
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  Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the
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  will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must
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  be always living and present behind all that you do, all that
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  you feel, all that you think. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother, The psychic being soul, its nature,
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  mission and evolution. Section 2.
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  Role, function and Action of the Psychic.
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  Pages 66 to 67.