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Distinguishing Between Personal Growth and Inner Growth · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  While Humanity, embodies the development of the mental
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  Consciousness in principle, it must be noted that this
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  generalization does not apply specifically to each.
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  And every human individual. Just as the field of Statistics,
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  does not predict any single event and the observational
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  experiments of quantum mechanics.
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  Do not predict the movement of a specific Photon through an
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  aperture. Yet in both cases, statistical
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  or real-world distributions, are able to be predicted.
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  So also the mental development does not imply that every person
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  is in the same place in evolutionary terms, while we can
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  conclude that the evolution of Mind occurs in human beings,
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  This leads to some amount of confusion in terms of individual
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  growth and development due to the wide range of human
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  development. There are programs and practices
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  that are supportive of the development of the core
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  competencies of Mind, life, and body, and the development and
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  strengthening of the ego personality.
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  As well as programs and practices focused on the
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  Transcendence of the ego and the development of the spiritual
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  consciousness. With a variety of focus areas
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  determined by individual development personality and
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  aspirations. The first group is identified by
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  dr. Dalal as focused on personal
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  growth, the second on inner growth.
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  In today's society, these two directions are often lumped
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  together under some kind of personal growth, rubric it is
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  thus easy to become disoriented when trying to figure out how to
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  move forward in one's own life. One-size-fits-all definitely
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  does not work. So each individual needs to
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  understand the source and direction of his own aspiration
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  and the initial starting point from which the growth needs to
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  occur. Those who need to develop the
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  basic skills of body life and mind and the interaction with
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  Society, will likely find it best to focus on the personal
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  growth side of things, those who have already developed a strong
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  personality and who feel that the Fulfillment offered by the
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  world is simply not enough to satisfy their deeper seeking
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  will likely turn to Inner growth practices.
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  Dr. Dalal observes quote, most of what is today, called
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  personal growth aimed at by various psychotherapeutic,
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  approaches such as transactional analysis, Gestalt therapy,
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  rational emotive therapy Etc, and by the various techniques
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  associated with the human potential movement such as
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  encounter group, sensitivity, training assertiveness, training
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  Etc, pertain to what has just been above is the development of
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  the ego and individuality on the other hand inner growth aimed at
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  by eastern and western spiritual approaches such as yoga, Zen
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  Sufism, Christian mysticism, Etc, consists of transpersonal
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  development, beyond the ego State, and represent a total
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  reversal of the normal ego bound state of consciousness.
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  It is therefore imperative to distinguish between personal
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  growth and inner growth, and quote, reference SRI aurobindo,
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  and the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development, introduction page, Roman 5.