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Overcoming the Reaction of Jealousy · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Jealousy is one of those deeply-rooted vital reactions
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  that are not amenable to being convinced to change by.
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  Mental logic, Highly, Educated refined.
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  Individuals are also subject to jealousy when appropriate
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  circumstances arise. And as with other such deeply
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  rooted reactions, the vital overpowers, the mental will as
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  SRI aurobindo has pointed out elsewhere.
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  The Also has the ability to convince the mind to understand
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  and support its wishes and thus we see numerous justifications
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  coming up for why jealousy is actually a manifestation of some
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  positive characteristic or as at the very least a basic and
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  unchangeable element in human nature for many.
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  This means that there cannot be any real change that does away.
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  With the jealous reaction. SRI, aurobindo, however, reminds
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  us that these vital reactions are intimately connected to the
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  ego personality. Thus the true solution to
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  overcoming jealousy and other similar vital reactions is to
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  shift the Consciousness away from the ego to the Divine
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  Consciousness. This occurs through the coming
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  forward of the psychic, being to guide the Mind, life and body,
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  and through the shifting of the awareness to the witness
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  conscious, Yes, that has its basis in the Divine
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  Consciousness. When an individual no longer
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  associate himself with a specific ego personality.
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  But with the Divine manifestation, there is no basis
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  for any feelings of jealousy. He sees all movement of forces,
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  all relationships from this new standpoint and understands the
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  play of forces and energies. Without the attachment of Any of
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  them to his own existence or reality 3.
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  Aurobindo writes quote, it is of course, the old reaction
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  jealousy is certainly there, or you would not feel this violent
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  sorrow. That'd subsist still in the
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  recesses and Rises with such vehemence shows How Deeply
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  rooted this movement was in your physical consciousness.
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  You have not been able to root it out because when it comes you
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  associate yourself entirely with it and abandon yourself to it
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  out, cries and violence. You must have the strength to
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  stand back from it in that part of your nature which is free.
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  Only then will you be able to push it away from you?
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  And it is only if it is pushed away from you, each time it
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  rises that it will consent to disappear and return no more.
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  End quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother living
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  within the yoga approached, a psychological health and growth.
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  Disturbances of the vital jealousy Pages 68 to 69