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The Power of the Quiet Mind and Vital to Resolve Problems We Face · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We are habitually conditioned to try to solve problems with our
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  mental capacity. We are taught to observe,
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  organize, classify, compare and contrast, and examine similar
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  past circumstances in order to determine a solution to whatever
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  we are facing. This is the normal pattern for a
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  mentally developed individual. Those who function primarily on
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  the vital level do not necessarily go through this
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  detailed process, but respond to what may be called instinct,
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  feeling or emotional reaction. In either case, we often times
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  find that the result is less than satisfactory.
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  The process generates a lot of stress and discomfort, including
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  pressures we experience in the physical body that lead to
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  indigestion, ulcers, high blood pressure and palpitations.
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  As we begin to understand the development of consciousness, we
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  can see that physical, vital and mental methods of solving
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  problems are limited and inefficient.
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  We can also see that as we begin to explore the spiritual
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  consciousness that represents the next stage of the evolution,
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  that new possibilities arise which operate from a totally
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  different, even opposite standpoint to the prior modes of
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  understanding and decision making.
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  The power of silence, the power of the quiet mind and vital, is
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  a gateway to gaining access to the answers we seek.
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  We are so busy formulating thought and acting in a frenzy
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  that we often times simply don't take the time to stop, quiet the
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  being and allow answers to come. A story in the Mahabharata
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  illustrates the need to listen for answers.
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  A woman was undertaking extreme ascetic disciplines for purpose
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  of gaining a suitable husband. After considerable time had
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  elapsed and she had gained substantial spiritual power in
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  her tapasia, she asked for the boon of a suitable husband.
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  She asked multiple times without noticing any response.
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  Eventually Shiva appeared before her and granted her the boon she
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  had requested, namely that in a future lifetime she would have 5
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  husbands. She objected, saying she only
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  wanted one. Shiva replied that she had asked
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  five times and thus had obtained the response for five husbands.
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  When we quiet the mind and vital and pose the question facing us
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  to the universe, the higher unified field consciousness
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  responds and provides us the answer we need.
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  We have to learn how to listen for the answer the Mother
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  writes. Quote.
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  The noise made by all the words, all the ideas in your head is so
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  deafening that it prevents you from hearing the truth when it
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  wants to manifest. To learn to be quiet and silent
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  when you have a problem to solve, instead of turning over
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  in your head all the possibilities, all the
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  consequences, all the possible things one should or should not
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  do. If you remain quiet with an
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  aspiration for goodwill, if possible, a need for goodwill,
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  the solution comes very quickly and as you are silent, you are
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  able to hear it. When you are caught in a
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  difficulty, try this method instead of becoming agitated,
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  turning over all the ideas and actively seeking solutions of
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  worrying, fretting, running here and there inside your head.
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  I don't mean externally, for externally you probably have
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  enough common sense not to do that.
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  But inside, in your head remain quiet and according to your
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  nature, with ardor or peace, with intensity or widening,
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  where with all these together implore the light and wait for
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  it to come. In this way the path would be
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  considerably shortened. End Quote reference.
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  Srioro Bindu and the Mother Powers within, Chapter 10.
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  Obtaining Answers and Solutions, pages 94 to 95.