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Do We Know What We Seek in Our Lives? · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We feel like something is missing in our lives.
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  It could be something material, it could be just a Pang of
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  hunger or thirst, it could be a sense of emotional emptiness
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  unattached to a specific object. We may feel like we need to find
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  out something do something, no, something respond to something,
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  although we are not quite sure exactly what it is.
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  This sense of emptiness occurs to everyone at various times of
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  Life. In some cases where it is
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  attached to a specific desire, we can identify what it is, we
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  speak. But in many cases it is, vague
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  amorphous, undefined? As we grow in Awareness, we may
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  begin to have a feeling of aspiration towards something
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  greater something Beyond us. Some seek a relationship with an
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  external God or savior. Some aspire to Enlightenment
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  salvation, Freedom, From The Bondage of nature, or other
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  forms. That such an aspiration may
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  take. This is a sign that we are
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  readying ourselves to go beyond the body life.
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  Mine complex and the attachment to the fruits of the external
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  life. Even here.
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  However, we are not always clear or certain about the specifics
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  of our seeking and as we grow the nature of that seeking may
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  change, SRI aurobindo writes, quote man seeks at first blindly
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  and does not even know that he is seeking his Divine self.
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  For he starts from the obscurity of material nature and even when
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  he begins to see his long Blinded By the Light that is
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  increasing in him. a disciple asks, how is it that one seeks
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  something and yet does not know that one is seeking The mother
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  responds quote. There's so many things you think
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  feel want even do without knowing it.
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  Are you fully conscious of yourself and of all that goes on
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  in you not at all. If for example, suddenly without
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  you're expecting it at a certain moment.
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  I asked you, what are you thinking about your reply 99
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  times out of 100 will be? I don't know.
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  And what do you feel? I don't know.
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  It is only to those who are used to observing themselves
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  watching, how they live, who are concentrated upon this need to
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  know what is going on in. Them.
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  That one can ask a precise question like this and only they
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  can immediately reply. In some instances in life.
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  Yes, one is absorbed in what one feels thinks wants and then one
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  can say, yes, I want that. I am thinking of that, I
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  experienced that, but these are only moments of existence, not
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  the whole time. Haven't you noticed that now and
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  quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  site. Ecology of inner development,
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  chapter 1 emergence, from unconsciousness Pages, 9 to 10.