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The Two Most Powerful Levers to Enter Into Contact with the Divine in One’s Psychic Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When an individual begins to recognize the existence of the
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  soul and seeks for a way to come into contact with it.
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  And begin to there by understand the purpose and significance of
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  his life in the larger creation. The first question that comes to
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  mind is how do I do that this leads to a period when an
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  individual becomes a seeker? And this generally involves
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  searching for individuals were written material.
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  That may help provide guidance finding a suitable group of
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  people who are themselves on the path and taking up practices.
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  That may involve yoga Vision quests Meditation, contemplation
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  prayer or other long practice means of achieving a spiritual
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  breakthrough. The mother places emphasis on
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  several seemingly simple ways to come into contact with the
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  psychic being the sole and there by the divine presence in the
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  manifestation. The involve breaking out of the
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  limiting shell of the ego personality in one way or
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  another to open oneself to The Wider reality and its meaning,
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  she describes these levers as enthusiasm and gratitude.
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  The mother observes quote, there are two principal things this
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  the capacity for enthusiasm, which makes one come out of his
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  greater, or lesser inertia in order to throw himself more or
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  less totally into the thing, which Rouses him.
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  As for instance, the artist for his art, the scientist for his
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  science. And in general, every person who
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  creates or builds has an opening, the opening of a
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  special faculty, the special possibility, creating an
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  enthusiasm in him when this is active, something in the being
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  awakens, and there is a participation of almost the
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  whole being in the thing done. There is this.
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  And then there are those who have an innate faculty of
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  gratitude. Those who have an Ardent need to
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  respond respond with warmth devotion, joy to something,
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  which they feel like a Marvel hidden behind the whole of Life
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  Behind the tiniest little element, the least little event
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  of life. Who feel this, Sovereign beauty
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  or infinite grace, which is behind all things?
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  I knew people who had no knowledge.
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  So to say of anything who were hardly educated, whose Minds
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  were all together of the ordinary kind and who had in
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  them this capacity of gratitude of warmth, which gives itself
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  understands and is thankful well for them.
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  The contact with the psychic was very frequent almost constant
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  and to the extent that they Capable of it conscious not very
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  conscious but a little in the sense that they felt that they
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  were carried helped up, lifted above themselves.
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  These two things prepare people to most.
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  They are born with one or the other, and if they take the
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  trouble, it develops. Gradually it increases.
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  We say the capacity for enthusiasm something with
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  throws. As you out of your miserable and
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  mean little ego. And the generous gratitude, the
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  generosity of the Gratitude which also flinx itself and
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  Thanksgiving out of the little ego.
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  These are the two most powerful levers to enter into contact
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  with the Divine. In one psychic being this
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  serves. As a link with the psychic being
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  the surest link. And quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development, chapter 8, the psychic being and inner growth
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  Pages, 155 to 156.