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Religious, Mechanical and Psychological Methods of Inner Development · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When an individual awakens to, the inner need for significance
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  and meaning in life, he generally takes up one or more
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  methods to try to understand the purpose of his life.
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  Religious worship and belief systems tend to be quite
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  external in their nature. Trying to find a relationship
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  between the individual and a separate powerful deity, a
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  Creator efforts are made to please this deity.
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  Tea and the concepts of Heaven and Hell, represent a system of
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  reward and Punishment. To signify, the success of the
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  individual in pleasing, God religious practices tend to
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  accept a duality of Creator and created separate and thus
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  forever different with a gap that cannot be eliminated
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  between them. There are, of course, those
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  individuals who while living within the social framework of a
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  And never the less have a deeper calling and who undertake
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  various forms of psychological methods.
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  In order to understand their deeper truth in this instance.
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  However, despite the trappings of religion, they should be
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  considered practitioners of the psychological method.
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  It has long been recognized that specific actions upon the outer,
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  physical body, vital, and nervous Force.
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  And the mind can elicit? An altered state of
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  consciousness whereby one can obtain realizations, not easily
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  experienced in the normal functions of Life, thus we see
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  the use of the Vision, Quest fasting, various techniques of
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  pranayama, tratak concentrated gazing on a single point of
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  light or in some cases use of various drugs to shift the
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  awareness away from the surface being These methods are what the
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  mother calls mechanical we come. Then to the psychological
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  methods, which seek to take the individual inward.
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  To explore and understand the workings of the Mind, the vital
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  energy, and the physical being and harness their powers to
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  achieve spiritual realizations. Terms used in the psychological
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  methodology include aspiration and surrender which is the
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  attenuation of the ego personality and unification of
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  the outer surface. Being with the deepest, inner
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  being the sole and a shifting of the awareness and source of
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  action to the divine Psychological methods, tend to
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  recognize a state of Oneness, which when realized brings the
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  individual into coherent and harmony with the Divine
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  consciousness. By its very nature.
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  The psychological methods bring to the Seekers awareness over
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  time. The numerous inconsistencies
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  weaknesses and obstacles put up by and through the ego
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  personality and the vital nature, which need to be
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  resolved. The mother notes quote, what is
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  the difference between mechanical religious and
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  psychological methods? Religious methods are those
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  adopted by the various religions, not many religions,
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  speak of the inner Truth for them.
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  It is more a matter of coming into contact with their God,
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  Heaven and Hell. This is a roundabout way of
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  saying, note words, missing in the transcription, Psychological
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  methods are those that deal with States Of Consciousness.
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  The try to realize the inner self by withdrawing from all
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  activity and attempting to create the conscious inner
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  conditions of Detachment self abstraction concentration.
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  Higher reality. Renunciation of all the outer
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  movements, Etc. A psychological method is one
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  which acts on the thoughts, feelings and actions, Mechanical
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  methods are those which are based on.
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  Purely mechanical means one can benefit from them.
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  Using them in a certain way, take breath control.
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  For example, it acts more or less mechanically, but it is
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  sometimes recommended to add to this.
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  A concentration of once, thought to repeat a word as in
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  vivekananda's teaching this works up to a certain point, but
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  then it fades away. These human attempts in various
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  times and places have been more or less successful individually,
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  but they have never given the collective result.
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  The psychological method is far more difficult but far more
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  effective through your actions to be in a state of inner will
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  to express nothing in yourself but the truth of your being and
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  to make everything dependent on that.
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  Of course, if you do nothing, it is easier but it is also easier
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  to deceive yourself. When you sit down and isolation
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  in complete silence, and far away from everybody and examine
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  yourself with more or less indulgent eyes.
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  You may imagine that you are realizing something wonderful,
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  but when you are put to the test at every minute of your life,
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  when you have the occasion to become aware of your
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  imperfections, your infirmities, your little movements of bad
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  will 100 times a day. you soon, lose the illusion of being note
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  words, missing in the transcription, And so your
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  efforts are more sincere and quote reference SRI aurobindo in
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  the mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 5 growth of Consciousness means and methods
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