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Light and Shadow · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Yin and yang dualities that are inextricably intertwined with
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  one another that continue to play into one another and which
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  contain an element of the opposite quality within
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  themselves. We live in a world characterized
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  by Duality and when we examine closely, we find that we cannot
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  have light without Darkness, happiness, without sadness, Etc.
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  Even those who work, the hardest to achieve a status of light
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  retain some element of shadow. Yet we can Envision an existence
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  without Duality many people believe in a Heavenly realm
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  characterized by unending. Bliss with angels singing hymns
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  of joy and praise no Darkness. There one explanation of this in
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  light of our world of Duality that.
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  Those angels that had a contrary propensity were expelled from
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  heaven and took up residence in a separate world of hell.
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  Thus The Duality remains in the creation but has been distilled
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  out in two separate worlds. Each containing one side of The
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  Duality with the Earth in between as a mixture of the two.
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  All of this is based on our current view of things that our
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  current stage of evolution in particular, the Mind evaluates
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  things in a framework of either or and the vital being is
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  attached to the drama of Joy sorrow, good bad, Etc.
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  What we have not recognized fully is that with the Advent of
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  a new Power Of Consciousness, a new paradigm of seeing and
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  understanding will necessarily accompanied it And this new
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  paradigm, May overcome the need for Duality as an organizing
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  principle in the meantime, utilizing our existing view of
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  things, we can find our greatest opportunities for growth and
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  development by seeing our greatest challenges and
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  weaknesses, and conversely, we can look at our greatest
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  strengths to identify those areas within ourselves that
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  represent our greatest potential.
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  Failures or pitfalls. This becomes a useful tool for
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  undertaking, spiritual discipline and working towards
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  the evolution of the next level of Consciousness beyond the
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  mind. a disciple asks, Quote you have said everyone possesses two
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  opposite Tendencies of character which are like the light and the
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  shadow of the same thing. This is a quote from the mother
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  on education. Everyone possesses in a large
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  measure and the exceptional individual in an increasing
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  degree of precision to opposite Tendencies of character in
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  almost equal proportions, which are like the light and the
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  shadow of the same thing. Thus someone who has the
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  capacity of being exceptionally generous will suddenly find an
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  obstinate avarice rising up in his nature.
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  The courageous man will be a coward in some part of his being
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  and the good man will suddenly have Wicked impulses in this way
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  life. Seems to endow, everyone not
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  only with the possibility of expressing an ideal but also
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  with contrary elements representing.
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  In a concrete manner, the battle he has to wage and the Victory.
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  He has to win for the realization to become possible.
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  Reference the mother on education collected works of the
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  mother volume 12 page, 19. The disciple ass.
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  Why aren't things made in this way?
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  Can't 1/2. Only the light The mother writes
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  quote, yes, if one eliminates the shadow but it must be
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  eliminated. That does not happen by itself.
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  The world, as it is is a mixed world, you cannot have an
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  object, which gets the light from one side without it's
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  casting a shadow on the other. It is like that.
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  And indeed it is the Shadows. Which make you see the lights,
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  the world is like that and I have only the light one must
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  definitely go through the entire discipline necessary for
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  eliminating the shadow. This is what I have explained a
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  little farther. I have said that this Shadow was
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  like a sign of what you had to conquer in your nature.
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  In order to be able to realize what you have come to do, if you
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  have a part to play a mission to fulfill, you always carry in
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  yourself the main difficulty. Acting you from realizing it so
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  that you have within your reach, the victory, you must win.
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  If you had to fight against a difficulty which is everywhere
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  on Earth, it would be very difficult.
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  You would need to have a very vast Consciousness and a very
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  great power. Well, if you carry in your
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  nature just a shadow or defect you must conquer.
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  Well it is there within your reach.
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  You see all the time, the effects of this thing and can
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  fight it directly immediately. It's a very practical
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  organization and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 6 growth of consciousness.
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  The difficulties and pitfalls Pages. 117 to 119.
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  The difficulties and pitfalls Pages. 117 to 119.