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The Development of the Human Being and the Transcendence of the Human Being: Personal Growth and Inner Growth Defined · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Personal growth and integrals the enhancement of the human
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  being and its capabilities and the Transcendence of the human
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  being to develop a being awake and active, with a new level of
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  Consciousness are not in conflict, with one another, the
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  human being must develop to a certain degree to truly
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  effectuate, the Necessities for Transcendence.
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  At the same time, in the integral yoga where the purpose
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  is not abandonment of life, but the transformation of Life, the
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  two processes actually go hand-in-hand and complement one
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  another dr. Dalal observes quote, the
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  difference from the Viewpoint of yoga between personal growth and
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  inner growth, may be restated in somewhat different words.
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  Thus personal growth consists in the development of the
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  individual as a human being, whereas inner growth, which is
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  the aim of yoga lies in transforming, and transcending
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  the human state of consciousness SRI aurobindo writes quote yoga
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  is not Perfection of the human nature as it is but a psychic
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  and spiritual transformation of all the parts of the being
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  through the action of an inner Consciousness and then of a
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  higher Consciousness which works on them, throws out their old
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  movements or changes them into the image of its own.
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  And so transmutes lower into higher nature.
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  It is not so much the Perfection of the intellect as a
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  Transcendence of it, the transformation of the Mind, the
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  substitution of a larger greater principle of knowledge.
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  And so, with all the rest of the being and quote, the mother adds
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  quote, the higher Perfection is the spiritual Perfection.
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  Integral Union with the Divine identification with the Divine
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  freedom from all the limitations of the lower.
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  World that is spiritual Perfection.
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  The Perfection that comes from yoga.
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  And the lower Perfection is to be able to make the human being
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  in his present form and in his body, in his relation with all
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  terrestrial things, do the utmost.
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  He can. This is the case of all Great,
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  Men of Genius, artistic genius, literary, genius, genius and
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  organization. The great rulers, those who have
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  carried physical capacities to their maximum perfection.
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  Human development to the limit of its possibilities.
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  And from every point of view, from the point of view of
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  physical strength of intellectual, realization of the
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  physical qualities of energy, and courage of disinterestedness
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  goodness, charity, all human qualities.
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  Carried to their utmost limits, that is the lower Perfection and
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  quote. Dr. Dalal concludes quote, an
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  important point to note in the above quoted passage, is that
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  even moral development, which is often confused with spirituality
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  is part of growth that belongs to the human state.
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  It does not constitute inner growth, which aims at a state of
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  the being beyond the human ego bound State and quote reference
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  SRI aurobindo in the mother growing Within in the psychology
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  of inner development, introduction Pages, Roman 10:51