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- 0:01When we think about what qualities within ourselves, our
- 0:05aids to achieving conscious contact with the psychic being
- 0:09the sole. We would likely not named
- 0:12enthusiasm as one of them. The mother, however, makes the
- 0:18case for this quality. Those things that motivate us to
- 0:23learn to expand our capacities to go beyond our current limits
- 0:29to reach for something greater and higher than what we are now
- 0:34are the key to the kind of evolutionary progress that we
- 0:37are attempting to achieve. The motivating force may work in
- 0:42the mind and the emotions in the vital level or even on the
- 0:47physical plane each Dividual has some essential drive that works
- 0:54to push him along and this takes on an aspect unique to that
- 0:59person. When something grabs our focus.
- 1:04When we feel motivated and move to take action, we open up inner
- 1:09Pathways to The Guiding and directing force behind our life
- 1:13and personality, enthusiasm is the sign of this drive as it
- 1:19takes, hold of our minds, our emotions, our Vital energies,
- 1:24and our physical persistence. A disciple inquires.
- 1:31Here it is. Written our one objective must
- 1:33be for the Divine himself to whom knowingly, or unknowingly
- 1:39something always aspires in our secret nature.
- 1:43What is this? Something which aspires the
- 1:47mother responds quote? It is a part of the being, which
- 1:51is not always the same in every one and which is instinctively
- 1:56open to the influence of the psychic.
- 1:59There is always one part sometimes, indeed, quite veiled
- 2:04of, which we are not conscious something in the being, which is
- 2:08turned to the psychic and receiving its influence.
- 2:12This is the intermediary between the psychic Consciousness and
- 2:16the external consciousness. It is not the same thing in
- 2:21everyone and each one. It is different.
- 2:24It is the point in his nature or character through which he can
- 2:28touch the psychic and where he can receive the psychic
- 2:32influence, it depends upon people for each one.
- 2:36It is different. Everyone has a point like this.
- 2:42You may also feel that there are certain things which suddenly
- 2:45push you lift. You above yourself open a kind
- 2:49of door upon something greater. It can be many things, and it
- 2:55depends upon each one's nature. It's the part of the being which
- 2:59enthuses over something. It is this capacity for
- 3:03enthusiasm. And quote, reference SRI
- 3:08aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of
- 3:12inner development, chapter 8, the psychic being and inner
- 3:17growth Pages, 154 to 155. And quote, reference SRI
- 3:08aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of
- 3:12inner development, chapter 8, the psychic being and inner
- 3:17growth Pages, 154 to 155.