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Overcoming Hopelessness and Depression by Tuning the Consciousness Towards the Light · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Many people including those who are treading a spiritual path,
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  feel depressed and hopeless, when they see all the
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  negativity, violence and destruction taking place in the
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  world around us. The mass media focuses on and
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  emphasizes all this negativity with the saying, if it bleeds it
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  leads, they know they can capture the attention of more
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  people for violent dramatic events, then with positive and
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  harmonious issues. It is no wonder that.
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  We tend to fix a tremendous attention on this type of thing.
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  And consequently we feel like there is no way out and we are
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  heading to inevitable loss and destruction their forces and
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  beings. Who embody these forces in many
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  cases, which purposely work to create hostility chaos and fear
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  who feed off of our negative emotions and who will do
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  practically anything to be the center of attention.
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  They understand that we will turn our Focus towards them and
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  thereby come suddenly or overtly under their control they develop
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  what is called Charisma to enchant and hypnotize us. even
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  to the most desperately negative things, they may choose to say
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  or do these forces make us accept and believe in their
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  drama and can lead us to hopelessness and despair.
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  And yet, when we recognize the way Consciousness actually works
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  and the way the universal manifestation evolves, it
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  becomes clear as SRI, aurobindo puts in savithri a legend and a
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  symbol I hope stolen that hardly dared to be the beings and
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  forces that are working to move the evolutionary progression
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  forward. The forces of light and Harmony
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  the forces of compassion and Goodwill, are generally quiet,
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  unassuming working without Fanfare and avoiding the
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  Limelight. But working nevertheless human
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  consciousness acts in many ways like a frequency tuning device.
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  We receive an act upon those frequencies to which we tune
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  ourselves. If we accept the input, that
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  comes from the mass media, without understanding that, this
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  is a very narrow slice of the frequency spectrum.
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  We become depressed by the difficulty or even a parent
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  impossibility. Progress, survival and positive
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  development. If however, we recognize that we
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  can consciously turn our attention to the powers, and
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  forces, and beings of light, and good will call them into our
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  lives and except they're supportive and bullying energy.
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  Then we find that on the contrary real progress is being
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  made because of the lack of fanfare, tuning to these
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  positive forces and beings may happen through our A receptivity
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  and aspiration gaining a sudden sense of conviction.
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  Or we experienced some telepathic guidance, where we
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  interface with these beings in a dream state, or we receive what
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  the Tibetan Buddhists call the psychic gift waves that Inspire
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  guide and uplift our spirits, There are other Realms in the
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  purely physical that interact with an impact, our world and
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  its development, just as some of the Hostile forces and beings
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  reside in the vital world and influence us from there.
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  So also some of the uplifting forces and beings reside in the
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  subtle, physical the vital or other worlds of higher Energies,
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  SRI, aurobindo declares in sabitri.
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  Quote, when darkness deepened strangling, the Earth's breast
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  and man's corporeal mind is the only lamb as a thief in the
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  night shall be the covert. Tread of one who steps unseen
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  into his house. A voice ill heard shall speak to
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  solo Bay a power in two minds inner chamber.
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  Steal a charm and sweetness open.
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  Life's closed doors. And Beauty conquer the resisting
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  world. The truth light captured Nature
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  by surprise, a stealth of God compelled the heart to Bliss and
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  earth, grow unexpectedly Divine and quote, SRI aurobindo,
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  observes quote. If there are always forces
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  around us, which are concerned to depress and discourage their
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  always forces above and around us, which we can draw upon Into
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  ourselves to restore to fill up again with strength and faith
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  and joy, and the power that perseveres and conquers.
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  It is really a habit that one has to get of opening to these
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  helpful forces and either passively receiving them or
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  actively drawing upon them. For one can do either, it is
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  easier. If you have the conception of
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  them above and around you and the faith and the will to
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  receive them. For that brings the experience
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  and concrete sense of them and the capacity to receive at need,
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  or it will it is a question of habituating, your Consciousness
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  to get into touch and keep in touch with these helpful forces.
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  And for that, you must accustom yourself to reject the
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  Impressions forced On You by the others.
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  Depression self-distrust repining and all similar
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  disturbances and quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother
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  living within the yoga approach to psychological health and
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  growth exercises for growth and Mastery drawing upon helpful
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  sources. Pages 156 to 157.