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The Complexity and Difficulty of Achieving Complete Sincerity in the Spiritual Path · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Sincerity is not as simple as believing in and meaning what we
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  say to others, this is what we ordinarily.
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  Consider to be sincerity, SRI aurobindo and the mother have a
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  much more far-reaching idea of sincerity relating to the
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  practice of yoga in the furtherance of spiritual growth.
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  Sincerity represents the coherence of the entire being
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  around. The central focus of the
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  spiritual practice, such that our thoughts, emotions vital,
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  impulses and physical responses, all adhere to, and support this
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  Focus. This becomes complicated because
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  the human being is made up of different parts, which each have
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  their own function, their own habits, and their own
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  long-standing genetic and race memory to contend with thus,
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  physical wants and needs vital desires, the hearts emotional
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  responses, the mines processes all try to achieve their own
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  ends, and they do not always agree with one another.
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  The mind and the Heart may agree on a spiritual sadhna, but this
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  does not mean that the vital desires will suddenly agree to
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  give way and support the process.
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  Further. Even if the Mind generally
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  agrees or the heart, generally supports, the spiritual sadhna,
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  this does not mean that it always and in all situations
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  responds the same way. What further complicates this is
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  the role of the vital and it's desires.
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  The vital is able to manipulate the Mind into supporting just
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  about anything and coming up with plausible rationales for
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  why one does. What one does even if it at
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  bottom contradicts the true spiritual aspiration, SRI
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  aurobindo observes quote, men are always mixed and there are
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  qualities and defects mingled together almost any strict
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  kablooey in their nature. What a man wants to be, or wants
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  others to see in him or what he is.
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  Sometimes, on one side of his nature, or in some relations can
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  be very different from what he is, in the actual fact, or in
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  other relations, or on another side of his nature.
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  To be absolutely sincere straightforward open is not an
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  easy achievement for human nature.
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  It is only by spiritual Endeavor that one can realize it and to
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  do it needs a severity of introspective self vision and
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  unsparing scrutiny of self-observation of which many
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  sadhaks and yogis even are not capable.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 3 growth of Consciousness basic requisites
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  page 39.