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Spirituality: What It Is Not, and What It is · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We frequently hear people speaking about spirituality.
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  They indicate I consider myself to be spiritual, not religious
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  beyond that distinction. However, when one asks, what
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  they mean by spirituality, there's a wide range of
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  responses. That make it clear that
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  spirituality is mostly something vague and somewhat amorphous SRI
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  aurobindo provides a very clear brief overview.
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  Of what spirituality is and what it is.
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  Not SRI aurobindo writes, quote spirituality is not a high
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  intellectuality, not idealism, not an ethical Turn of Mind or
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  moral Purity. And austerity.
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  Not religiosity or an Ardent and exalted emotional fervor, not
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  even a compound of all these excellent things.
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  A mental belief, Creed or faith and emotional aspiration.
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  A regulation of conduct according to a religious or
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  ethical, formula are not spiritual achievement and
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  experience. These things were of
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  considerable value to mind in life.
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  They are a value to the spiritual Evolution itself as
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  Preparatory movements disciplining purifying or giving
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  a suitable form to the nature. But they still belong to the
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  mental Evolution. The beginning of a spiritual
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  realization experience. Change is not yet.
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  Their spirituality is in its Essence and Awakening to the
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  inner reality of our being to a spirit self Soul, which is other
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  than our mind, life and body and inner aspiration to know to feel
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  to be that to enter into contact with the greater reality Beyond
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  and pervading the universe, which inhabits also our own
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  being to be in communion with it and Union with it and a turning
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  a conversion, a transformation of our whole being, as a result
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  of the aspiration, the contact the union, a growth or wakening
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  into a new Aiming or new being a new self, a new nature and
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  quote, reference SRI, aurobindo, and the mother growing within
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  the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 2, Awakening of Consciousness page 16.