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Confusion About the Real Inner Self and the External Surface Personality Is the Root of Our Suffering · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When an individual takes up the spiritual path, there is a
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  considerable focus on the idea that the life of the external
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  world is an illusion and needs to be abandoned.
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  In order to achieve spiritual Liberation.
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  He sees that a focus on the external personality, its needs
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  desires, satisfactions Joys, and sufferings, Is a distraction to
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  his spiritual concentration. The answer is done generally to
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  avoid the external Focus as much as possible to allow the
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  spiritual discipline to bear fruit.
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  There is not much attempt generally in this approach to
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  distinguish different elements of the external being or Surface
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  personality. As it is all meant to be, put
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  aside. The fact that there are
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  different drivers of understanding and action in the
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  surface, being does not enter into the discussion.
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  If everything is an illusion, what difference can it make to
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  distinguish? The sub elements of that
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  illusion after all. This is, however, an implied
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  acknowledgement of a duality between the illusory, outer
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  world, and the spiritual reality.
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  When one comes to the understanding that The Duality
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  so created is itself artificial. And that there is an omnipresent
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  reality that encompasses both the unmanifest absolute and the
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  Manifest creation, then one can recognize that it is not the
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  world that is the illusion, but our relationship to it and our
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  absorption in it. the object then is not to try to cancel the
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  world and our relationship to it, but to gain an understanding
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  of it through a new standpoint and perspective, As one steps
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  back from the absorption in the outer personality.
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  One can begin to observe it and see how it is really made up of
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  a number of different aspects based in the physical vital and
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  mental levels of consciousness that are inter woven with each
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  other developing a new relationship to the world, then
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  requires a reconfiguring of each of these elements to directly
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  represent the Deep. Reality and not the illusory
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  reality that we have imagined, SRI, aurobindo, observes, quote,
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  a psychical that is psychical here.
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  Meaning inner or Deeper Self knowledge.
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  Tells us that there are in our being many formal frontal
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  apparent, where representative selves and only one that is
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  entirely secret and real to rest in.
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  In the apparent and to mistake it for the real is the one
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  general error root of all others and cause of are stumbling and
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  suffering to which man is exposed by the nature of his
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  mentality and quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother.
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  Our many cells, practical, yogic psychology chapter one, our
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  manifold being Pages, 1 to 2