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Transformation of the Vital Requires the Action of a New Power of Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Albert Einstein was famously. Quoted as saying quote, we
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  cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that
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  created them and it is necessary to achieve a new frame of
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  reference and standpoint in order to address the issues of
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  the body life, mine complex and the transformation of the vital
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  nature is one of the key issues that needs to be so addressed
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  The vital nature, as we have described is not subject to
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  change through the normal tools of indulgence or suppression
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  that Seekers have tended to employ in past attempts to bring
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  it under control. They're also apocryphal stories
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  of Yogi's who spent years in deep meditation in cave,
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  Retreats who achieved a measure of peace through their yogic
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  discipline who when confronted by real-world events and
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  circumstances erupted with vitalic, Versions, they had
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  assumed were already worked out. The shift in Consciousness
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  needed comes generally at the end of human effort, when the
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  individual has done everything, he can do and reaches a dead end
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  at that moment, there is a choice of Despair or an act of
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  utmost faith in the higher Providence.
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  That shaped his Destiny. His aspiration and his Focus up
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  to that point. SRI aurobindo points out that
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  the process of nature includes setting up extreme circumstances
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  of opposition that then must rise to a higher level to find
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  the solution. The acetic response does not
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  solve nor does the materialistic response.
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  In other words suppression, or Indulgence, the higher synthesis
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  is based on an omnipresent reality that understands both
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  drives that towards Operation and that towards outer growth
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  and Perfection that make up these two opposite approaches.
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  A disciple asked the mother about this, but if one can tear
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  out completely the root of the thing, The mother writes, quote
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  one must not be so sure of that. I have known people who wanted
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  to save the world by reducing it so much that there was no longer
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  a world left. This is the aesthetic way.
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  You want to do away with the problem by doing away with the
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  possibility of the problem, but this will never change anything.
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  No, there is a method of sure one, but your method must be.
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  Very clear sighted and you must have a wide awake consciousness
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  of your person and of what goes on there.
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  And the way in which things happen.
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  Let us take the instance of a person subject to outbursts of
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  rage and violence. According to one method, he
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  would be told get as angry as you like, you will suffer the
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  consequences of your anger and this will cure you This could be
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  discussed according to another method, he would be told sit
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  upon your anger and it will disappear.
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  This too could be discussed. In any case, you will have to
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  sit upon it all the time. For if ever, you should get up
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  for a minute, you will see immediately.
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  What happens then what is to be done?
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  You must become more and more conscious, you must observe how
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  the thing happens by what road the danger approaches and stand
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  in the way before it can take. Hold of you if you want to cure
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  yourself of a defect or a difficulty there is, but one
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  method To be perfectly Vigilant to have a very alert and
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  Vigilant Consciousness. First, you must see very clearly
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  what you want to do. You must not hesitate before
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  loved out and say. Is it good to do this or not?
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  Does this come into the synthesis or should it not come
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  in? You will see that if you trust
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  your mind, it will always shuttle back and forth.
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  It vacillates all the time, if you take a decision, Put before
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  you all the arguments to show you that your decision is not
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  good and you will be tossed between the yes and no the
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  black-and-white and will arrive at nothing.
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  Hence, first you must know exactly what you want.
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  No not mentally but through concentration through aspiration
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  and a very conscious will, that is the important Point
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  afterwards gradually by Observation of sustained.
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  Vigilance, you must realize a sort of method which will be
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  personal to you. It is useless to convince others
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  to adopt the same method as yours.
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  For that won't succeed. Everyone must find his own
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  method. Everyone must have his own
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  method and to the extent you put into practice your method.
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  It will become clearer and clearer more and more precise.
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  You can correct a certain point. Clear.
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  Another Etc. So you start working for a
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  while. All will go well, and one day
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  you will find yourself facing an insurmountable difficulty.
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  And you will tell yourself, I have done all that and here is
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  everything as bad as before. Then in this case, you must
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  through a yet, more sustained concentration, open an inner
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  door in you and bring into this. Movement of force, which was not
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  their formerly, a state of consciousness, which was not
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  there before. And they're, there will be a
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  power when your own personal power will be exhausted and no
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  longer effective when the personal power Runs Out.
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  Ordinary People say that's good, I can no longer do anything,
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  it's finished. But I tell you that, when you
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  find yourself before this wall, it is the beginning of something
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  new. By an obstinate concentration,
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  you must pass over to the other side of the wall.
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  And there you will find a new knowledge, a new force, a new
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  power, a new help, and you will be able to work out a new
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  system. A new method, which surely will
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  take you very far. and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the
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  mother living within the yoga approached, a psychological
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  health and growth, disturbances of the vital transforming the
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  vital Pages, 69 to 85