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A Sudden and Decisive Spiritual Opening Transforms the Individual’s Life When It Takes Place · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Sometimes the spiritual opening comes in what appears to be a
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  miraculous fashion and the direction of the individuals.
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  Life takes a major turn. This goes beyond a brief glimpse
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  of the spiritual truth which can fade and require renewal in
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  order for it to stabilize and solidify the direction.
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  Such a sudden opening may come with a near-death experience.
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  As there are many instances where an individual awakes and
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  knows that he needs to focus on the spiritual aspect of life.
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  It may, of course happen, through other means in each
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  case, it is clear that much preparation has taken place
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  behind the scenes either in the current lifetime or in past
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  lifetimes. So that the way forward is
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  obvious. Obstacles may arise but they
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  become part of the process of working through the limitations
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  of the body, life mind complex, and moving the Spiritual
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  Development forward to a new level of realization.
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  SRI aurobindo writes, quote, if the change comes suddenly and
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  decisively by an overpowering influence, there is no further
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  essential or lasting difficulty, the choice follows upon the
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  thought or is simultaneous with it and the self consecration
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  follows upon the choice. The feet are already set upon
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  the path, even if they seemed at first to wander uncertainly.
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  And even though the path itself may be only obscure Lee scene
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  and the knowledge of the goal may be imperfect.
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  The secret teacher, the inner guide is already at work,
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  though, he may not yet manifest himself.
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  Or may not yet appear in the person of his human
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  representative. Whatever difficulties and
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  hesitations may ensue. They cannot eventually Prevail
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  against the power of the experience that has turned the
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  current of the life, the call, once decisive stand.
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  The thing that has been born cannot eventually be stifled
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  even if the force of circumstances, prevents a
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  regular Pursuit were a full practical self.
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  Consecration from the first still, the mind has taken it to
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  Bent and persists and returns with an ever increasing effect
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  upon its leading preoccupation. There's an ineluctable
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  Persistence of the inner being and Against it circumstances are
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  in the end powerless and no weakness in the nature can for
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  long. Be an obstacle and quote
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  reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 2 Awakening of
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  Consciousness page 18.