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Following the Right Path to Divine Realisation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  we're very easily fall into the mistaken idea that the path we
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  follow, is the best way to approach the Divine or achieve
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  spiritual realization and that other paths are either less
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  effective or do not provide the complete Liberation from the ego
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  personality, We also tend to accept the idea that whichever
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  form our lead capabilities, take represents the best way to
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  approach the Divine, thus someone who follows The Path of
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  Knowledge, May believe that devotion or selfless work are
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  lesser paths while someone who opens his heart joyfully in
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  adoration or self-surrender. May feel like the individual
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  following the path of knowledge is simply trying to escape life.
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  Without the fruits of true realization, the Divine singer
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  Nara, one day passed, a yogi who was engaged in deep
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  concentration and to Prussia the yogi, took the opportunity to
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  ask Nara when he would achieve Liberation in Arad replied that
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  it would be for more lifetimes at which the yogi lamented, how
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  long it would take and how much effort he had to make to get
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  there. NORAD continued on his journey
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  and came across an individual singing and praising the name of
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  God while dancing ecstatically. This individual to ask nirad,
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  whose reply, was that as many leaves as there are on this tree
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  represents the number of lifetime's before you will be
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  liberated. The Seeker wept with joy and
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  exclaimed how joyful he was that the Divine would bestow his
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  grace upon him in such a Short span of time, he was liberated
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  immediately. Each path of Spiritual
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  Development relies on one or another of the powers of human
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  existence and each path can lead the secret to fulfillment.
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  If he follows it conscientiously and with the necessary patience
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  and persistence each path has its difficulties and obstacles
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  and each one has its own advantages.
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  Thus, an individual need not shop around for a path, he
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  assumes his best, but follow the path that carries through with
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  the unique development of his own life and Direction.
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  Those with a devotional nature, should naturally grow with that
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  capacity. Those were called to Dedicated
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  work, should seek to carry out the tasks before him.
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  Thus each one eventually reaches the divine.
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  It is commonly said that the paths are many, the truths are
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  one showing the unity of the goal despite different methods
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  of approach yet. It is also true that depending
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  on the character and type of the focus, the Seeker may experience
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  the unifying truth through different aspects.
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  Each one goes where his Focus attention and concentration
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  takes him Dr. Dalal notes, quote, the form in which one
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  experiences and realizes the truth, depends on the nature of
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  the path. One follows, thus the paths of
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  the Ed White and and the Buddhist lead to the experience
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  of Nirvana and the realization of the truth.
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  As impersonal principle and impersonal absolute existence at
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  whiter or an impersonal. Absolute non-existence Buddhism
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  On the other hand, the path based on self, consecration,
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  through works and action such as the path of the Gita and the
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  path of devotion and prayer, such as that of the Christian
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  Mystics lead to the experience of the truth.
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  As a personal being ishwara, the Lord The an integral approach
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  stage for your window leads to the realization of the truth, as
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  both personal and impersonal. SRI aurobindo writes, quote, if
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  we carry up our heart as well as our reasoning mind to the
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  highest, we shall find that we can reach it through the
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  absolute person, as well as through an absolute
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  impersonality. in the Universal aspect to we meet him in various
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  forms of divine personality, in formulations of quality, which
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  variously expression to us in his nature in infinite quality,
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  the ananta Guna in the Divine person who expresses himself
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  through infinite quality in absolute impersonality, and
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  absolute existence or an absolute non-existence, which is
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  yet all the time, the unexpressed absolute of this
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  Divine person, this conscious being who manifests himself
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  through us and Through the Universe and quote, reference
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  SRI, aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of
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  inner development introduction page, Roman 20,