Latest / Sri Aurobindo Studies / Purification of the Nature: Negative and Positive Approaches

Transcript

Purification of the Nature: Negative and Positive Approaches · Sri Aurobindo Studies

• 0:02
  Ordinarily, when we reflect on addressing impurities in the
• 0:05
  nature, whether in the mind, the emotions, the vital nature, or
• 0:11
  the physical body, we tend to fixate upon the weakness or
• 0:15
  limitation, we have identified and work to directly control
• 0:20
  change or suppress. It, this is what may be termed a
• 0:25
  negative approach to purification A positive approach
• 0:30
  consists of building up the psychological force of Peace,
• 0:35
  which in and of itself, prevents many of the disruptions that we,
• 0:41
  otherwise would want to change, or remove from our nature.
• 0:46
  The deeper, the piece, the less, the outer impulses can disturb
• 0:51
  and disrupt it all cultivating. Peace in.
• 0:54
  The being is a progressive process over time, there can be
• 0:59
  a conscious effort to not react to the impulses that ordinarily,
• 1:03
  would create a disturbance. And this may Aid in the opening
• 1:07
  to the higher Force as it descends, from above, and fills,
• 1:12
  the being with the true peace, that resides.
• 1:15
  Those higher planes. Fewer open do notes quote, it
• 1:22
  Purity is more a condition than a substance piece helps to
• 1:27
  purify since in peace. Disturbing influences, cease and
• 1:33
  the essence of Purity is to respond only to the Divine
• 1:37
  influence and not to have an affinity with other movement.
• 1:43
  If you get peace, then to clean the vital becomes easy.
• 1:48
  If you simply clean and clean and do nothing else, you go very
• 1:52
  slowly for the vital gets dirty again, and has to be cleaned a
• 1:57
  hundred times. The piece is something that is
• 2:01
  clean in itself. So to get it is a positive way
• 2:05
  of securing your object to look for dirt only and clean is the
• 2:11
  negative way in quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother
• 2:18
  growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter for
• 2:23
  growth of Consciousness. First steps and Foundation page
• 2:28
  74.