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Understanding the Mechanism of the External Nature and the Way to Overcome Its Limitations · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As the secret attempts to follow a spiritual path, he frequently
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  finds that he struggles with old habits, desires, feelings,
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  Cravings, emotions and ideas. He believes these are part of
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  who he is and he thus cannot find a way to overcome them in
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  some cases, he is deeply attached to some of these things
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  as expressing his unique personality.
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  He does not have any key as to how to go about a self exceeding
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  in this circumstance. SRI aurobindo provides Insight.
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  That Aid. The Seeker in first distancing
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  himself from all of these things and second gaining Mastery.
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  Over them with the leverage provided by knowledge and
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  Detachment. The clue is the separation of
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  the witness Consciousness from the active nature.
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  The Seeker becomes the Observer of all these forces energies and
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  impulsions as they act upon his external nature.
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  He begins to recognize that these things are not himself but
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  are based on a habit of acceptance and responds to
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  forces and energies that come from outside.
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  The individual is something of a radio receiver rather than the
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  originator of the content. At some point when he recognizes
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  that these things therefore are not essential parts of himself.
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  He is able to begin to reject their action within himself and
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  change the focus. SRI aurobindo observes quote,
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  men do not know themselves and have not learned to distinguish
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  the different parts of their being for these are usually
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  lumped together by them as mind because it is through a mental
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  lived, perception and understanding that they know or
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  feel them. Therefore, they do not
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  understand their own States and actions or if at all, then only
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  on the surface. It is part of the foundation of
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  yoga to become conscious of the great complexity of our nature.
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  See the different forces, that move it and get over it.
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  A control of directing knowledge.
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  We are composed of many parts, Each of which contributes
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  something to the total movement of our Consciousness, our
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  thought will sensation feeling action, but we do not see the
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  origination. Or the course of these
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  impulsions, we are aware only of they're confused and pell-mell
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  results on the surface upon, which we can at best impose
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  nothing better than a precarious shifting order, man is not made
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  up of one piece, but of many pieces, and each part of him has
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  a personality of its own. That is a thing, which people
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  yet have not sufficiently realized the psychologists.
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  Have begun to Glimpse it. But recognized only when there
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  is a Mark Case of double or multiple personality but all men
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  are like that in reality and quote, Reference SRI aurobindo
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  in the mother. Our many selves practical yogic
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  psychology chapter one, our manifold being Pages for 25.