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Introduction to Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Charles Darwin in his book, The Origin of Species summarizes his
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  observations about the evolution of forms and how this Evolution
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  came about. He explains that there is a
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  pressure in nature, which eventually leads to the survival
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  of the fittest who then go on to reproduce and thereby pass on
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  whatever qualities. Help them survive, the
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  challenges of life. While there is much to applaud
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  in this book, it is not without its detractors, and it's
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  obvious, internal weaknesses, one, glaring.
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  Weakness is the lack of what our scene is.
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  Transitional links in the fossil record that show the steps of
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  this evolution of forms. Another weakness is the
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  inability to address any purpose or significance to this vast.
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  Machinery of nature SRI aurobindo addresses, both For
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  these apparent issues. First, he describes not as
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  smooth and slow, evolution of forms, but what he calls an
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  evolutionary psaltis at a certain stage, when the
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  underlying causative factors are prepared.
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  Second he identifies the causative factors as
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  Consciousness and the evolution of Consciousness in ever more
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  powerful and complex, formations.
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  It is this evolution of Consciousness, which creates the
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  needed development of forms to embody that consciousness.
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  By reframing, the question of evolution away from a purely
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  mechanical activity of physical nature to one of the development
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  of Consciousness. He also puts before us the
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  proposition, that man is not the final stage of evolution, but in
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  fact, is a transitional, being further evolutionary
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  developments are anticipated. And in fact, signs can be seen
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  in the human aspiration. That such developments are in
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  fact taking place within the scope of human existence.
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  This provides a purpose and a focus for each individual beyond
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  the mere acts required for existence and survival, and of
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  more significance than simple enjoyment were entertainment.
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  Those who are awake to a deeper aspect of life are called
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  therefore to what SRI aurobindo terms in adventure of
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  consciousness. SRI aurobindo writes in the
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  Life, Divine quote, to become ourselves is the one thing to be
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  done. But the true ourselves is that
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  which is within us. And to exceed our outer self of
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  body. Life in mind is the condition
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  for this highest being, which is our true and divine being to
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  become self revealed and active. It is only by growing within and
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  living within that we can find it.
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  And quote, the mother observes quote, everything turns around
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  the Consciousness, the fact of being or not being conscious and
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  it is only in the Supreme Consciousness that you can
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  attain the perfect expression of yourself for the true
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  Consciousness is the Divine consciousness If you cut
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  yourself off from the Divine Consciousness, you become
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  absolutely unconscious. That is exactly what has
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  happened. And so everything, there is the
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  world as it is your Consciousness, as it is things
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  in the state, they are in. Are the result of this
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  separation of the Consciousness and its immediate obscuration
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  The minute, the individual Consciousness is separated from
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  the Divine Consciousness. It enters what we call the in
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  Contents and it is this incontinence that is the cause
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  of all miseries. And the conclusion of this.
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  That the true transformation is the transformation of
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  Consciousness. All the rest will follow
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  automatically in the quote SRI, aurobindo notes further quote,
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  it is by a constant inner growth that one can find a constant
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  newness and unfailing interest in life.
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  There is no other satisfying way and quote, reference, SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother growing Within The psychology of inner
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  development. The psychology of inner
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  development.