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Focusing on the Signal While Eliminating the Noise: Concentration and Purification · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Consider briefly that you have a television set that receives all
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  the available channels but you cannot tune the set.
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  So that all picture and sound from the entire frequency range
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  come in at the same time and mix up with each other, along with
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  the static that occurs between various stations signals.
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  Obviously such a system is chaotic and does not function
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  properly. In order to receive understand
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  and utilize whichever Channel you want to watch, you need to
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  be able to tune to that specific frequency and exclude all the
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  others, whether you are looking for Spiritual instruction,
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  religious channels, educational teachings, dramas comedies, or
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  cooking channels or those catering to other desires.
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  The ability to focus and tune and maintain.
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  The setting is essential. Our conscious awareness
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  functions in a similar manner. We have the ability of receiving
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  vibrations across a wide range of frequencies, but we tend to
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  have a stream of confusing and mixed up incoming perceptions
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  and the responses they provoked unless we have the ability to
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  concentrate and focus on a particular signal and eliminate
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  the static and the conflicting signals.
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  He's at the same time. We need to focus on the desired
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  signal and eliminate the noise from our interaction, thus
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  concentration, and purification, go hand-in-hand for us to
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  successfully interact with the manifestation of which we are a
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  part. The Seekers role is to
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  systematically work, tuned toward the desired, frequency
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  that supports the spiritual aspiration and growth, and then
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  to systematically reduce and eventually eliminate the
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  interference from competing signals that distract or take us
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  away from the focus SRI aurobindo notes quote along with
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  Purity and as a help to bring it about concentration.
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  Purity and concentration are indeed, two aspects, feminine,
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  and masculine passive, and active of the same status of
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  being Purity is the condition in which concentration becomes
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  entire rightly effective omnipotent by concentration
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  Purity. Does its work and without it
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  would only lead to a state of peaceful.
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  Quiet, Essence and eternal repose The fault of our nature
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  is first and inert subjection to the impact of things as they
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  communicate on the Mind pell-mell without order or
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  control. And then a haphazard imperfect
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  concentration, managed fitfully, it regularly with a more or less
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  chance emphasis on this or on that object.
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  According as they happen to interest, not the higher Soul
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  where the judging and Discerning intellect.
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  But the Restless Leaping fickle easily tired, easily distracted,
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  lower mind, which is the chief enemy of our progress.
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  In such a condition Purity, the right working of the functions,
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  the clear unstained and luminous order of the being is an
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  impossibility. The various workings given over
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  to the chances of the environment and external,
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  influences must necessarily run into each other and clogged
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  divert distract pervert. Equally without Purity, the
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  complete Equal flexible concentration of the being in
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  right thought, right, will, right?
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  Feeling or secure, status of spiritual experiences, not
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  possible. Therefore, the two must proceed
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  together, each helping the victory of the other until we
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  arrive at that Eternal column, from which may proceed.
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  Some partial image in the human being of the Eternal omnipotent
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  and omniscient. Shiva tea and quote reference
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  SRI aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of
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  inner development, chapter for growth of Consciousness.
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  First steps and Foundation Pages 68 to 69