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The Spiritual Call Comes… Then What Needs to Happen Next · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We have a vision. We get inspired.
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  We have a near-death experience. We come back from the spiritual
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  experience and we are sure it is meant to change our lives as we
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  suddenly have a whole new Vista, open up before us a realm of
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  truth beauty Harmony light. Then we come back into our
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  normal external state of consciousness, still carrying
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  some lingering memory of the experience.
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  But now confronting all the normal day-to-day activities
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  relationships difficulties and opportunities.
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  Some people find the contradiction too much and opted
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  either to try to forget about the spiritual experience, they
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  had and go on with their normal lives.
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  While others may feel like they need to leave that life behind
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  and concentrate purely on spiritual practice and seek
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  liberation. Then we come to the path.
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  The tree aurobindo has marked out.
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  Free or open do calls for the transformation of the outer
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  external Consciousness, and its relationship to the outer world
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  and its activities. There is no cutting of the, not
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  by abandoning life nor is the spiritual call Simply denied.
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  Or avoided this implies that the spiritual Force needs to not
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  only create a momentary state of extraordinary awareness, but
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  that it needs to be able to take up the Actions of the Mind, the
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  Life Energy and the body and bring them into harmony with the
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  spiritual Force. SRI, aurobindo notes, quote, but
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  in whatever way it comes, there must be a decision of the mind
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  and the will, and as its result, a complete and effective self
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  consecration, the acceptance of a new spiritual idea, force, and
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  upward orientation in the being, an illumination, a turning or
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  conversion seized on by the will and the hearts aspiration.
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  This is the momentous act which contains as in a seed, all the
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  results that the yoga has to give the mere idea or
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  intellectual seeking of something higher Beyond,
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  however, strongly grasped by the mines, interest is ineffective,
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  unless it is seized on by the heart.
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  As the one thing desirable and by the will of the one thing to
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  be done. for truth of the spirit has not to be merely thought,
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  but to be lived and to live it Demands a unified,
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  single-mindedness of the being So great, a change as is
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  contemplated by the yoga, is not to be affected by a divided
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  will, or by a small portion of the energy or by a hesitating
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  mind. He who seeks the Divine was
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  consecrate himself to God. And to God only and quote
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  reference SRI aurobindo on the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 2 Awakening of
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  Consciousness Pages 17 to 18.