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The Essential Conditions for the Growth of the Psychic Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We tend to judge circumstances and events based on how they
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  impacted our external personality, the individual ego.
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  We call things good or bad based on our perception of whether
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  they satisfy our needs, wants and desires or not.
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  What we fail to recognize more often than not is that the
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  psychic being may have a different agenda than our mind
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  or vital desire soul recognizes. Sometimes the very things that
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  we believe are harmful or unfortunate are the important
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  opportunities the psychic being has permitted and possibly
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  engineered to guide us towards a more complete aspiration,
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  consecration, dedication and surrender to the divine
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  intention. We are egocentric while the
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  psychic being in US is divine centric.
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  A disciple asks how can one make one's psychic personality grow?
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  The mother answers quote. It is through all the
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  experiences of life that the psychic personality forms,
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  grows, develops and finally becomes a complete, conscious
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  and free being. This process of development goes
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  on tirelessly through innumerable lives, and if one is
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  not conscious of it, it is because 1 is not conscious of
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  1's psychic being, for that is the indispensable starting
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  point. Through interiorization and
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  concentration, one has to enter into conscious contact with
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  one's psychic being. The psychic being always has an
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  influence on the outer being, but that influence is almost
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  always a cult, neither seen nor perceived nor felt, save on
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  truly exceptional occasions. In order to strengthen the
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  contact and aid, if possible, the development of the conscious
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  psychic personality, one should, while concentrating, turn
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  towards it, aspire to know it and feel it, open oneself to
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  receive its influence and take great care each time that one
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  receives an indication from it. To follow it very scrupulously
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  and sincerely, to live in a great aspiration, to take care,
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  to become inwardly calm and remain so always as far as
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  possible. To cultivate a perfect sincerity
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  in all the activities of 1's being.
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  These are the essential conditions for the growth of the
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  psychic being. End Quote Reference Sri Orobindo
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  and the Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission
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  and evolution. Section 3.
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  Growth and Development of the Psychic, pages 96 to 97.