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Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 6 Subjection to Suffering from the Dualities Versus Equanimity · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The dualities were pairs of opposites are recognized
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  throughout the world as a condition of life.
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  Night and day, positive and negative and all other dualities
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  can be seen in material nature as well as in our Vital and
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  emotional existence and in our minds.
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  Electricity flows between positive and negative poles.
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  The pairs of opposites are seemingly inescapable in our
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  world. When people hear about escaping
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  the dualities, therefore, they try to imagine endless light
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  without Darkness, happiness without sadness, pleasure,
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  without pain, they either conclude that this is an
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  impossible task, or they try to create conditions to achieve
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  these ends without, however, reaching any final conclusion.
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  So, what do the spiritual texts me?
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  When they say we can escape the dualities, they are not
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  describing the actuality of these opposites, but the manner
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  in which we respond or react to them.
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  Human nature, react strongly to these opposites.
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  And we thus moved from gladness to sadness from Joy, to sorrow,
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  from exhilaration to depression in an endless cycle.
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  As the Spiritual Secret develops and matures in his dealing with
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  his life and nature. He begins to recognize that the
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  solution lies not in changing. The nature of the world itself
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  with respect to these dualities, but in the response, when
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  provides to their existence, The Seeker then develops a variety
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  of strategies to determine how to experience the changes caused
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  by the dualities, but not be overcome by them rather To Be
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  steady and accept them with calm, peace and equality
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  achieving a constant steady state of equanimity.
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  However, is not the work of a day.
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  Spiritual practitioners may spend many years working through
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  the various reactions. I'm still find that something
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  upsets them when they least expect it, perhaps the death of
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  a loved one or some failure in the Life Arrangements they have
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  made and on which they are counting.
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  As the evolved Consciousness develops and takes firm.
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  Hold these. Disruptions tend to occur much
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  less frequently and with less intensity.
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  An example from an event at SRI aurobindo ashram illustrates
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  this quite well, a Seeker reported that he had been living
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  and working at the ashram and received a birthday blessing and
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  message from the mother on November 17th. 1970. 3:00 in the
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  morning, the message stated live within be not shaken by outward
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  happenings It so happened that the Seeker went into an internal
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  state of deep abstraction that day and overnight.
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  He reported dreams that showed a tremendous Darkness, covering
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  the Earth, followed by a flash of blinding light.
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  He awoke and went to his position in the ashram early in
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  the morning, and when he approached, he saw the entire
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  facility lit up, even though it was still dark outside and
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  unusual occurrence, which he had never experienced before.
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  People were everywhere, he enquired and was advised that
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  the mother had left her body on the evening of November 17th.
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  Somehow the message of the prior day and the impact of the dream,
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  led him to not react, meanwhile people began to arrive from all
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  over the world in tears, as they entered the ashram to pay their
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  respects to the mother. They entered through a line of
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  children from the school holding hands to create a pathway
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  through the ashram The older sadhaks were all sitting in deep
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  meditation, around the samadhi, generating, a force of Peace.
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  A miraculous thing occurred that all those who came in with
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  tears, after passing the line of children who were radiant came
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  out with peace in their hearts and without further tears.
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  Their reaction to the event was changed from that of a normal
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  human reaction to the death of. Not only a loved one, but a
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  guide Guru and mother To that of the spiritual consciousness,
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  that pervaded, the ashram at that moment.
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  Dr. Dalal notes quote, because of the identification with its
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  instrumental nature. The ordinary Consciousness is
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  afflicted by the pairs of contraries, heat and cold,
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  Pleasure, and Pain attraction, and repulsion, Etc, which are an
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  inherent characteristic of physical, gold, vital, and
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  mental nature. Ordinarily.
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  Therefore, Consciousness is in a more or less constant state of
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  disturbance and disequilibrium, contrastingly.
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  The higher Consciousness is unmoved fixed or steady steerer
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  to use another term of the Gita associated.
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  With this quality of summit. Ah, Equanimity born of an equal
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  response to the pairs of contraries and quote reference
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  SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of
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  inner development, introduction Pages, Romans 8:2, Roman 9.