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Unifying the Entire Being Around the Aspiration for the Divine · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A spiritual Seeker identifies with his aspiration and the
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  focus and actions that come about as a result of that
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  aspiration. It may be acts of prayer acts of
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  giving acts of consecration acts of meditation or dedicated
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  works. During the moments that he is
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  engaged in these acts, he feels like the spiritual purpose of
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  his life is being carried out. Yet when he turned to the other
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  times of his life, the times when devotion and consecration
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  are not at the very Forefront and he is asked to carry out the
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  needs of living in the world of responding to the opportunities,
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  pressures concerns and temptations of the external
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  life. He often finds that he is
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  carried away by desires. He experiences greed or
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  jealousy? Or anger or lust, or any number
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  of other feelings that reside in his untransformed and not yet
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  transformed physical vital, or mental nature.
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  There are Tales of Yogi's who spend years in silent meditation
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  in a cave or forest retreat who come into the world.
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  At some point, they believe they have achieved Liberation and
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  then they see an object of desire and give in to that
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  Force. There are Tales of yogic
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  practitioners who are enticed at some point by money wealth, fame
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  or sex. The verdict is, that they are
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  outright Hypocrites, but that may not be.
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  In fact, the actual case somewhere within them there is a
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  true aspiration, a true consecration, But they have not
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  done the work of identifying modifying and unifying their
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  entire nature around that aspiration.
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  So when the circumstances arise, the seeds of Desire Sprout and
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  grow the mother writes quote, your being is full of
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  innumerable, Tendencies at war with one another almost
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  different personalities. We may say, When one of them
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  gives itself to the Divine, the others come up and refuse their
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  allegiance, we have not given ourselves.
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  They cry and start clamoring for their independence and
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  expression, then you bid them, be quiet and show them the truth
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  patiently who have to go around your whole being exploring each
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  Nook and Corner facing. All those anarchic elements in
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  U, which are waiting for their Psychological moment to come up
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  and it is only when you have made the entire round of your
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  mental, vital and physical nature, persuaded everything to
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  give itself to the Divine and thus achieved an absolute
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  unified. Consecration that you put an end
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  to your difficulties then indeed.
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  Yours is a glorious. Walk towards transformation for
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  you. No longer go from Darkness to
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  now. knowledge, but from knowledge to knowledge, light to
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  light, happiness to happiness and quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo, and the mother, our many selves practical yogic
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  psychology chapter one, our manifold being paid six