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The Awakened Psychic Being Attracts What It Needs for Its Growth and Development · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There's been a lot of publicity about what is generally called
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  The Law of Attraction. This holds that an individual
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  can focus on something and thereby cause it to be attracted
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  to him. People have used it to try to
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  attract wealth romance and other things they desired to
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  themselves. There is of course an occult
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  truth behind the connection between subject and object that
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  takes place when the focus or concentration of the subject
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  shift to the object, and thereby can cause some attraction.
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  The real problem with the way this is formulated in the Buhler
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  imagination. Is that an individual's mental
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  emotional and vital focus of energies is sufficient to draw
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  together, Universal forces and results.
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  For most people with a limited power of concentration and a
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  limited power of persistence in that concentration.
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  This is for the most part. Very illusory and results are
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  limited at Best in his lectures on Raja yoga.
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  Swami Vivekananda describes, the power of yoga concentration,
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  some Jama to bring knowledge by identity to the practitioner of
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  whatever is being Focused on and with it, the powers of the
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  object of concentration. This, of course requires a
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  substantial ability to practice Raja yoga in order to obtain the
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  results. There may, of course be
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  individuals who have a natural capacity based on past lifetime
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  development to effectuate, such a form of concentration.
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  But this capacity is actually rooted in the psychic being
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  which is the actual carrier of experience and growth from Life
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  To Life. When we look at the mechanism of
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  the psychic being the entire Focus from life to life is the
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  growth of the soul and the increasing awareness and
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  purposeful adherence to the universal manifestation and the
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  Divine intention. the soul does not focus on fulfilling the
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  objects of Desire, but rather on circumstances and capacities
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  that will enhance the souls Awakening and growth These may
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  be circumstances that the ego personality would judge as
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  highly negative or painful. The pain and struggle may push
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  the soul along, its path more effectively than wonderful
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  satisfying circumstances in life.
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  The mother writes quote, if you have within you a psychic being
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  sufficiently awake to watch over you to prepare your path, it can
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  draw towards you things, which help you draw people, books,
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  circumstances, all sorts of little coincidences, which come
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  to you as though, brought by some benevolent will and give
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  you an indication the help of support to take decisions.
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  And turn you in the right direction.
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  But once you have taken this direction, once you have decided
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  to find the truth of your being, once you start sincerely on the
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  road then everything seems to conspire to help you to advance.
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  And quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development, chapter 8, the
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  psychic being and inner growth Pages. 161 2162