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The Human Need for an Intermediary to the Divine Brings About the Presence of the Avatar, the World-Teacher, or the Human Guru · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Spiritual experience is not realized through following a
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  manual or cookbook. There is not an actual way that
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  any prescriptive documentation, can both tune, the Consciousness
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  to the spiritual plane nor avoid the many chances of confusion
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  that can arise through mistake, were through misapplication or
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  through misleading indications provided either by the vital
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  nature or Forces inimical to the yogic development of the Seeker.
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  It is easy to be led astray as various types of ideas,
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  emotions, feelings, Sensations experiences and directions.
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  Come during the practice. The role of the human guide Guru
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  teacher is to Aid, the Seeker along the way to help him focus
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  on the spiritual Energies. To help create an atmosphere
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  that is supportive of the needed development and to watch over
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  and protect him from various obstructions that threatened to
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  derail the effort, the long history of the guru, taking a
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  disciple into the household, or ashram and providing, both
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  instruction, and a supportive atmosphere sets an example.
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  Those were visited ashram such as Ramana maharshi's ashram in
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  tiruvannamalai or the SRI aurobindo ashram and puducherry
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  India report an intensity of Silence aspiration and what can
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  only be called a spiritual pressure descending into the
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  being while. One is there. many sadhaks who
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  spent numerous years under the direct guidance and watchful eye
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  of Sri aurobindo and the mother report, not only the solid
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  Descent of Peace but also experiences such as a type of
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  drilling of force descending through the top of the head
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  bringing with it, various experiences of Peace, power
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  wideness Joy, creative expression that said True.
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  People does ask. What if I do not have a physical
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  Guru? Can I still make progress in
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  yoga? As well as do.
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  I need to live in an ashram to grow spiritually, the answer to
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  both of these questions is that while some individuals need that
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  direct physical support and atmosphere, this is not
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  universally needed if there is a connection at the level of
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  Consciousness, which is one with the guide or teacher.
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  It is said that when the disciple is ready to Guru
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  appears but this does not necessarily imply.
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  A physical presence, many report receiving instructions from
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  their Guru, while meditating or even in the dream state
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  similarly experiences of opening to the force of the guru come
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  when one directs, the Consciousness toward the guru or
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  even visualize has passed in counters at the ashram. or
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  through meditation to place oneself back into a time, and
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  place where the experience and the force were palpable in the
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  presence of the guru SRI, aurobindo writes, quote, even
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  then his Nature Calls for a human intermediary, so that he
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  may feel the Divine in something entirely close to his own
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  humanity and sensible in a human influence and example, This call
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  is Satisfied by the Divine manifest in a human appearance.
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  The Incarnation, the Avatar Krishna Christ Buddha, or if
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  this is too hard for him to conceive, the Divine represents
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  himself through a less marvelous, intermediary Prophet,
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  or teacher for many who cannot conceive or are unwilling to
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  accept the Divine, man are ready to open themselves to the
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  Supreme man. Terming him, not Incarnation,
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  but World teacher were divine representative.
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  This also is not enough. A living influence, a living
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  example, a present instruction is needed for.
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  It is only the few who can make the past teacher, and his
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  teaching, the past Incarnation, and his example, and influence a
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  living force in their lives. For this need also, the Hindu
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  disciplined provides in the relation of the guru and the
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  disciple, the guru May sometimes be the Incarnation or World
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  teacher but it is sufficient that he should represent to the
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  disciple, the Divine wisdom, conveyed him, something of the
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  Divine ideal or make him feel the realize relation of the
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  human soul, with the eternal, And quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 3 growth of
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  Consciousness basic requisites page 53,