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Kindling and Increasing the Psychic Fire · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The flame of aspiration is the force that powers spiritual
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  growth. Many people believe that the
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  association of a fire or flame with the psychological stance is
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  purely some kind of poetic device without any underlying
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  reality yet. Human Experience shows us that
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  various modes of emotion, for instance, can create a real
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  sense of heat or warmth in the being or an optical suitcases, a
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  sense of cold or coolness, we speak of warm-hearted and
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  cold-hearted. Add people for example and this
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  is another instance where the feeling is real and palpable the
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  mother explains us when she describes the changes that occur
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  in the subtle physical body as the aspiration develops and is
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  kindled up into a more intense form.
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  The fire of aspiration has specific impacts on the being,
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  it adds focus and intensity to the cooler logic of the
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  intellectual Pursuit. It is age the individual and
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  overcoming the obstacles that arise and more subtly to
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  persevere through long periods of Doubt, lack of visible
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  progress and the various temptations that arise to
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  confuse or distract. The Seeker the path to
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  effectuation of a real and substantive change to human
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  nature is long and arduous and it is aspiration, which keeps
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  the speaker on the path. And brings to him, the various
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  powers that need to manifest for the attempt to succeed.
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  Thus The Vedic rishi's prayed for the power of aspiration, as
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  the first Resort. And as a constant companion,
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  along the way, who brings here the gods as we find in the very
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  first Hymn of the rig Veda invoking.
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  The fire of aspiration is needed as otherwise we tend to live our
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  lives without a specific intention for Spiritual
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  progress. Seeking for Comforts see going
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  for entertainment and distraction seeking for all
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  manner of external goals, that do not involve the inner
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  development associated with spiritual growth, SRI aurobindo
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  notes a psychic Fire Within must be lit.
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  A disciple inquires isn't the psychic fire always lit.
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  The mother answers. It is not always lit.
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  The disciple asks, then how to light it.
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  The mother responds quote by aspiration by the will for
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  Progress by The Urge towards Perfection above all.
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  It is the will for progress and self-purification which lights
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  the fire. The wheel for Progress, those
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  who have a strong will when they turn it towards spiritual
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  progress and purification automatically light, the fire
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  within themselves And each defect one wants to cure for
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  each progress, one wants to make, if all that is thrown into
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  the fire, it burns with the new intensity and this is not an
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  image. There's a fact in the subtle
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  physical one can feel the warmth of the flame when can see in the
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  subtle, physical the light of the flame and when there is
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  something in the nature, which prevents one from advancing and
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  one throws it into this fire, It begins to burn and the flame
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  becomes more intense and quote reference SRI aurobindo and the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 3 growth of Consciousness basic requisites
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