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The Need for Spiritual Discrimination, the Ability to Distinguish the Pure from the Impure · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As the spiritual Seeker develops.
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  The sodden over time eventually, he is confronted with lights
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  voices and energies that come to him.
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  It is not sufficient for him to Simply accept that.
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  Whatever comes is to be seen as valid and supportive of his
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  spiritual aspiration. Spiritual discrimination, the
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  ability to distinguish between the pure and the impure, the
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  higher and the lower the light, and the dark Forces is
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  essential, SRI aurobindo recommend several possible ways
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  to accomplish. This one, way is to work toward
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  the attainment of the witness Consciousness separate from the
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  external nature. This witness uninvolved separate
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  and free can You all the reactions of body life and mind
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  with an impartial View and can thereby See Clearly the source
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  and intention of whatever comes before.
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  It's view, the other method is to have the soul to psychic
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  being come forward and use its sense of Purity as a spiritual
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  Compass to distinguish the differences.
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  This is not the same as conscience.
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  Which is generally based in moral principles, trained into
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  an individual and enforced by a mental understanding, but rather
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  a deeper knowing of the source and energy of what one is
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  experiencing or perceiving. SRI aurobindo writes, quote
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  lights are of all kinds. Super mental, mental vital,
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  physical Divine, or a Sorak. One has to watch grow, and
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  experience and learn to no one from another.
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  The true lights however are by their Clarity and Beauty not
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  difficult to recognize. The current from above and the
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  current From Below are familiar features of yogic experience.
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  It is the energy of the higher nature and the energy of the
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  lower nature that becomes active and turn towards each other and
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  move to meet one descending. The other are sending what
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  happens when they meet depends on the Sadiq.
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  If is constant, will is for the purification of the lower, by
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  the higher consciousness. Then the meeting results in
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  that, and in spiritual progress, if his mind and vital are turbid
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  and clouded, there is a clash and imp your mixture and much
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  disturbance. And quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 7, growth of
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  Consciousness. Inner experiences Pages. 142
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  141.