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Spiritual Realisation Goes Beyond All Scriptures · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We live in a dynamic evolving Universe, not one that is static
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  and unchanging. All teachings of the past.
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  Therefore have their limitations in his essays on the Gita SRI
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  aurobindo reminds us that all scriptures have both a temporal
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  element specific to their time and their circumstances, and an
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  eternal element, which speaks to the principles or truths of
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  existence and are not limited by immediate societal ideas or
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  norms. Even the most universal of past
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  teachings, tends to have their limits in so far as they are a
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  product of The evolutionary status and trend of the time of
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  their creation and cannot thereby fully incorporate and
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  communicate the elements specific to the Future evolution
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  of Consciousness, and development of the universal
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  manifestation, it would be relatively useless for them to
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  focus on Concepts and directions.
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  That have no obvious basis in the time and Social Development
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  in which they arise. It is therefore essential that
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  the practitioner of the integral yoga with a goal that
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  transcends, the specific directed objectives of many,
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  other Paths of spiritual growth, understand and be prepared to go
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  beyond the scope and limits of the scriptures of the past.
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  Even as do cognizance is given to their aid along the way and
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  their value as signposts in the long process of evolution.
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  Evolutionary growth and development.
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  Spiritual realization comes not from a book, or a specific
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  teaching, but from experience and a process of growth and
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  maturation. SRI, aurobindo observes, quote,
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  for the Sadiq of the integral yoga.
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  It is necessary to remember that no written shastra.
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  However, great its Authority or however, large it Spirit can be
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  more than a partial expression of the Eternal knowledge.
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  He will use, but never bind himself even by the greatest
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  scripture where the scripture is profound wide Catholic.
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  It may exercise upon him and influence for the highest good
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  and of incalculable importance. It may be associated in his
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  experience with his Awakening to crowning verities and his
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  realization of the highest experiences.
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  His yoga may be governed for a long time by one scripture or by
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  several successively. if it is in the line of the great Hindu
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  tradition by the Gita, for example, the upanishads the
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  Veda, Or it may be a good part of his development to include in
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  its material. A richly varied experience of
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  the truths of many scriptures and make the future opulent with
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  all. That is best in the past but in
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  the end he must take his station or better still if he can always
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  and from the beginning he must live in his soul beyond the
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  written truth. Shoved.
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  A Brahma to divert a beyond all that.
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  He has heard and all that. He has yet to hear frota vysya
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  Schrute, Asia cha For he is not the Sadiq of a book or of many
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  books. He is a Sadiq of the infinite.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 3 growth of Consciousness, basic requisite
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  Pages, 47 to 48