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The Call to the Spiritual Path · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  If we look at the individual life as separate from the rest
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  of the creation and claimed that it starts at Birth and ends at
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  death, there seems to be no rationale or meaning for that
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  life. Nor can we explain the
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  evolutionary progression of awareness understanding growth
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  and development that we see before us?
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  We see a baby come into the world with very little outward
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  capabilities without a developed language.
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  And over time we see the child grow and go through phases or
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  stages of development such that the physical body.
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  The nervous envelope, the emotional being and the mind
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  systematically develop as this occurs, the child changes, its
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  focus and attention from its childish Pursuits.
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  And moves into activities more suited to its current stage of
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  development when the child reaches the onset of puberty
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  sexual energies become active, which were latent previously.
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  Then the individual turns in a majority of cases, to the
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  development of family and career.
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  At a certain stage, many people find that the interest in outer
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  activities, begins to wane. The Indian tradition of the four
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  stages of Life developed from this type of observation when
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  the interest in the outer life, recedes the individual was
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  encouraged to take up the life of a renunciate and turn towards
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  spiritual seeking. The stages are Cycles at work
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  here. However, begin in past lifetimes
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  and develop over many lifetimes. Some individuals are born into
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  their current life with highly developed capabilities and
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  Spiritual Development already. Evident The Reincarnation of The
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  Dalai Lama and the ability of the chosen.
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  Monks to seek out and find the right Incarnation through
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  unmistakable signs of recognition of items used in the
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  prior lifetime. Is one such illustration.
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  This process explains why some people move through the stages
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  of development of Consciousness faster or slower in a particular
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  lifetime. We also see the process of
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  preparation in the way birth, take place that chicken will sit
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  on an egg to keep it warm for a period of time until the chick
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  inside is ready to break out and manifest itself in the world.
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  Similarly, mammals including human beings.
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  Nurture the fetus in the womb until it is ready to be born at
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  the right time the birth process begins.
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  The manifestation of the spiritual aspiration and the
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  Turning of the attention to spiritual things is similar in
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  many ways to these Cycles. It occurs.
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  When there is a Readiness in the being and then there is
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  sometimes a specific factor that breaks open the concealment and
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  allows the soul to come forward. Thus, there is a combination of
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  the Readiness of the soul and the pressure from the outside.
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  So that creates the conditions for the spiritual aspiration to
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  take hold in the individual for some this is simply a natural
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  growth process for others. It may need a force applied such
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  as some great sorrow or disillusionment in the
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  accomplishments possible in the world 3 aurobindo observes
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  quote, the greater and greater Awakening of Consciousness and
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  it's climb to a higher and higher level.
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  And a wider extent of its vision and action is the condition of
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  our progress towards that Supreme and total Perfection,
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  which is the aim of our existence.
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  All yoga is in its nature and New Birth.
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  It is a birth out of the ordinary, the mentalize material
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  life of ma'am into a higher spiritual consciousness, and a
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  greater and diviner being, no, yoga can be successfully,
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  undertaken, and followed. Unless there is a strong
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  Awakening to the necessity of that larger spiritual existence,
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  the soul that is called to this deep and vast change.
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  May arrive in different ways to the initial, ER, it may come to
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  it by its own natural development, which has been
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  leading it unconsciously towards the Awakening.
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  It may reach it through the influence of a religion or the
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  attraction of a philosophy. It may approach it by a slow
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  illumination or leap to it by a sudden touch or shock.
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  It may be pushed or LED to it by the pressure of outward
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  circumstances or by an inward necessity bias.
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  Single word that breaks the seals of the mind or by long
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  Reflection by the distant example of one who has trod the
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  path or by contact and daily influence, according to the
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  nature and the circumstances the call will come in quote
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  reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 2 Awakening of
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  consciousness. Ages. 16 to 17.