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Addressing and Overcoming Boredom · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As long as we remain bound to the ego personality, we are
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  caught in the play of the three gunas or qualities of nature.
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  Every individual is subject to all three and their constant
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  interchange, thus there will be times and circumstances where
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  Thomas the quality of indolence and darkness comes to the
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  Forefront. With Thomas in the ascendant, we
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  can experience a sense of emptiness, the sense of being at
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  Loose Ends, And a lack of interest in doing anything or
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  concentrating. The question then is how the
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  spiritual seeker can or even should respond when these
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  temasek states are in the Forefront, wallowing in Thomas
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  with various forms of distraction or self-medication
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  with drugs or alcohol. Does not obviously provide any
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  solution. The mother's prescription
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  invokes bringing the powers of sutta and registered bear to
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  uplift the Tomas Force with light and positive energetic
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  action. The mother notes, quote, there
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  is nothing more contrary to the very reason of existence than
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  this passing wave of boredom. If you make a little effort
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  within yourself at that time, if you tell yourself, wait a bit,
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  what is it? That I should learn.
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  What does all that bring to me so that I may learn something?
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  What progress should I make in? Overcoming myself.
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  What is the weakness that I must overcome?
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  What is the inertia that I must conquer?
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  If you say that to yourself, you will see.
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  The next minute, you are no longer board, you will
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  immediately get interested, and you will make progress.
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  This is a commonplace of Consciousness.
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  And then, you know, most people, when they get bored instead of
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  trying to rise a step higher to stand descendants, Up lower,
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  they become still worse than what they were and they do all
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  the stupid things that others do go in, for all the vulgarities,
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  all the meanness has everything in order to amuse themselves,
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  they get intoxicated, take poison ruin their health ruin
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  their brain. They utter crudities, they do
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  all that because they are bored. Well if instead of going down
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  one had Risen up, when would have profited by the
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  circumstances, instead of profiting, one Falls, a little
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  lower yet than where one was. When people get a big blow in
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  their life, some Misfortune what men call Misfortune.
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  There are people who do have misfortunes the first thing they
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  try to do is to forget it as though, one did not forget
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  quickly enough. And don't forget, they do
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  anything whatsoever. When there is something painful,
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  they want to distract themselves, what they call
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  distraction, that is doing stupid things, that is to say,
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  going down in their Consciousness, going down a
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  little, instead of rising up. As something extremely painful
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  happened to you, something very Grievous.
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  Do not become stupefied. Do not seek.
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  Forgetfulness do not go down into the incontinence.
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  You must go to the end and find the lightest.
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  That is behind the truth, the force, and the joy, and for
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  that, you must be strong and refuse to slide down and quote
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  reference Shreya. been doing the mother living within the yoga
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  approach to psychological health and growth, disturbances of the
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  vital boredom, and lack of energy Pages 53 to 56,