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Changing Outer Actions Is an Essential Aspect of Inner Development · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When an action takes place in the world, it has a number of
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  effects, both in the world and in the psychology of the
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  individual, carrying out the action, each action creates a
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  formation, a rhythm or a solid result that tends to perpetuate
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  and repeat itself on an ongoing basis.
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  Thus, the more we carry out specific forms of action The
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  more difficult, they are to change or remove.
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  This is the secret of why habits.
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  Addictions and instincts are so hard to change.
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  For those individuals who wish to effectuate a real change.
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  Therefore they must contend with the pressure that habits and
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  concrete sized forms exerts upon them.
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  Once brought into existence through action, these external
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  formations have a momentum, and a pathway to recreate
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  themselves. In any attempt to change.
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  Therefore the importance of discontinuing support for an
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  overt manifestation of outer actions cannot be over
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  emphasized. An addiction cannot be broken as
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  long as it continues to be fed, This is the case whether one is
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  speaking about a strong, physical addiction such as
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  Alcohol, Tobacco, or drugs, or about other less traumatic
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  issues. One is facing such as Cravings
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  desires or habit which are otherwise deemed acceptable by
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  Society. It is also true that to overcome
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  the force of such embedded, outer manifestations, a will,
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  and an aspiration for change must be present.
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  Aunt, so the fact of changing the outer action implies changes
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  to the inner forces that supported it in the first place.
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  It is of course, not simple to change.
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  Deeply entrenched habits of action outright suppression,
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  eventually can backfire. If it increases the pressure and
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  force of the suppressed action, which then returns with an
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  increased power, to the extent possible, a process of
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  redirecting, the energy and the focus toward other.
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  Things can be much more effective.
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  We see this occurring naturally as a child, Those and interests
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  change. And thus the child is able to
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  leave behind childish, Axe and desires and the focus on
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  childish games and toys. To redirect the attention to new
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  occupations and interest, a strong spiritual aspiration has
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  the power to effectuate in the Seeker.
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  A redirection of attention and focus away from those actions
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  that are to be put aside or changed.
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  The mother observes quote. You must never say, I shall
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  first purify my thought purify my body purify my vital and then
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  later, I shall purify, my action.
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  That is the normal order, but it never succeeds.
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  The effect of order is to begin from the outside.
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  The very first thing is that I do not do it and afterwards.
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  I desire it no longer and next I close my doors.
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  Completely to all impulses. They no longer exist for me, I
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  am now outside all that. This is the true order.
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  The order that is effective first not to do it and then you
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  will no longer desire and after that it will go out of your
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  Consciousness completely and quote, reference SRI aurobindo
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  in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development,
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  chapter for growth of Consciousness.
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  First Steps in Foundation Pages 66. 72 68.