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The Emergence of the True Soul and Its Influence on Our Lives · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When they were asked how they develop their most inspired
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  Concepts, or inventions, noted personalities such as Albert
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  Einstein and Nikola Tesla made it clear?
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  That it is not through some laborious process of thought.
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  But through an inspiration, a vision a process of
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  understanding that is outside the normal function of the Mind
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  life body in its limited functionality.
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  Similar reports come from artists composers and
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  Visionaries who have been recognized as the leading light
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  in the development of human progress and culture.
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  It becomes clear that the progress of humanity in all
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  these fields of endeavor comes about through the influence of
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  powers and forces acting beyond the normal human range.
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  But interacting with our human instrumentality, T and providing
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  guidance Direction and specific Focus to the efforts.
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  Even if we look at the development of physical culture
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  such as the peak of gymnastics, the training of the instrument,
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  only takes the gymnastics so far.
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  And at some point there has to be a total Reliance on the
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  working of a force of coordination timing, and action
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  that goes beyond the struggle of physical effort.
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  We see leaders in all Fields, who rely on the ability to
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  motivate and Inspire through a force that goes beyond the
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  normal daily range of our external lives.
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  Yoga psychology describes in detail, the processes involved
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  and the interaction that takes place the chakras, the occult
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  centers of energy or the portals through which various energetic
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  movements can enter into the A human mind, life and body and
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  act upon them. The chakras, however, are very
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  much closed off for most people blocked or only allowing very
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  small energy flow through them. Yogic practices tend to open
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  these centers and allow a more pervasive and Powerful action to
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  take place. In the integral yoga, this
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  involves the opening of the psychic being deep within and
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  the contact with the inner mind, life and body, as well as with
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  the higher mental and spiritual ranges beyond the mind, SRI
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  aurobindo describes this inner working as taking place behind
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  the veil a concept. He uses to illustrate that our
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  fixation on the outer World. Outer life, outer personality
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  represents a very limited understanding of the full
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  significance of Life. Similar to the fact that during
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  daytime, the veil of the outer World hides from us and
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  distracts us from The immensity of the universe's galaxies
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  Stars, solar systems, Etc of which we are a part and the
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  significance of which remains very much hidden from our
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  external lives. When the veil of the solar day
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  is removed at night, we can gaze into the distances and open
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  ourselves to the deeper and wider reality within, which we
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  exist. SRI aurobindo writes, quote, the
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  real self is not anywhere on the surface, but deep within, and
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  above within is the sole supporting an inner mind in her
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  vital in her physical, in which there is a capacity for
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  Universal wideness and with it for the things now, ask for
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  direct contact with the truth of self and things.
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  Taste of a universal Bliss. Liberation from the imprisoned
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  smallness and sufferings of the gross physical body.
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  Even in Europe, the existence of something behind the surface is
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  now very frequently admitted but its nature is mistaken and it is
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  called subcontinent or subliminal while really, it is
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  very conscious and its own way and not subliminal but only
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  behind the veil it is. According to our psychology
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  connected with the small outer personality by certain centers
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  of Of consciousness of which we become aware by yoga.
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  Only a little of the inner being escapes through these centers
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  into the outer life. But that little is the best part
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  of ourselves and responsible for our art, poetry philosophy
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  ideals, religious aspirations efforts at knowledge and
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  perfection. But the inner centers are for
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  the most part closed or asleep. To open them and make them
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  awake. And active is one aim of yoga.
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  As they open the powers and possibilities of the inner being
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  also are aroused in us, we awake first to a larger Consciousness.
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  And then to a cosmic Consciousness, we are no longer
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  little separate personalities with limited lives, but centers
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  of the universal action. And in direct contact with
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  Cosmic forces, Moreover, instead of being unwillingly playthings
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  of the ladder as is the surface person we can become to a
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  certain extent conscious and masters of the play of nature.
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  How far this goes depending on the development of the inner
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  being and its opening upward to the higher spiritual levels.
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  At the same time, the opening of the Heart Center releases, the
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  psychic being which proceeds to make us aware of the divine
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  within us and of the higher truth above us and quote
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  reference SRI aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI aurobindo
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  teaching and method of practice chapter 8, the triple
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  transformation, Psychic Spiritual and super mental the
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  Supermen. It'll transformation Pages 2092
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  to 29. It'll transformation Pages 2092
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