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The Way to Make Steady and Lasting Progress in Spiritual Growth · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When we begin to observe ourselves the thoughts, we
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  entertain the emotions, we express the feelings we have and
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  accept the physical reactions that occur within ourselves.
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  It soon becomes clear that we are more reactive than active.
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  We respond to energies, vibrations pressures, from
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  outside ourselves. We are conditioned educated and
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  manipulated through external, stimuli social, media,
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  advertising campaigns and social pressures to think a certain way
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  to believe certain things. To respond in approved wave.
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  What of all of this can we truly say belongs to our own self our
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  own individuality and has not been simply created or shaped by
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  these external forces acting upon us.
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  Even the shaping pressure does not build a totally constant and
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  consistent individuality, we tend to change our reactions
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  based on the situations we face. Even if we have a generally
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  consistent personality complex, this to is dependent on the
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  fluctuation of the gunas as well as differences of time and
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  Circumstance. So that what we consider to be
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  our normal mode of response, may undergo a radical alteration.
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  When we are confronted with some new force acting upon us, we
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  take on the appearance of a radio receiver, the changes its
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  station based on whatever the loudest signal from outside
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  happens to be at the moment, the underlying issue is that the
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  Mind life body complex that makes up what we consider to be
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  our personality, our ego personality, if you will, Is not
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  a fixed formation and does not in the end.
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  Constitute our true selves. The famous dictum know thyself
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  is intended to take us deeper than the surface personality.
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  Just as Ramana maharshi's famous question, who am I is meant to
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  take us beyond the shape of the ego that we represent normally
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  as ourselves from the world. The mother observes quote till
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  the self-giving is firmly psychic.
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  There will be disturbances, the interval of dark moments between
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  bright ones. It is only the psychic that
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  keeps on progressing in an unbroken line, its movement a
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  continuous Ascension. All other movements are broken
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  and discontinuous and it is not till the psychic is felt as
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  yourself that you can be an individual even for it.
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  Is the true self in you before the true self is known.
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  You are a public place, not a being.
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  There are so many clashing forces working in you, hence if
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  you wish to make real progress, no, your own being You must
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  learn to unite, what you call your individual self with your
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  true psychic. Individuality your present
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  individuality is a very mixed thing, a series of changes which
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  yet preserves a certain continuity, a certain sameness
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  or identity of vibration in the midst of all flux.
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  It is almost like a river, which is never the same and yet has a
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  certain definiteness and Persistence of its own Your
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  normal self is merely a shadow of your true individuality,
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  which you will realize only, when this normal individual,
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  which is differently poised at different times.
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  Now, in the mental, then in the vital at other times, in the
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  physical gets into contact with the psychic and feels it, as
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  it's real being, then you will be one, nothing will shake or
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  disturb you, you will. I'll make steady and Lasting
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  progress and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 8, the psychic being and inner growth page 162.