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The Main Conditions of Preparation for the Supramental Change · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In a brief compass, Srioro Bindo outlines the attitude to be
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  assumed and the nature of the work to be done to prepare the
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  being for the consummation of the path of the integral Yoga,
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  Srioro Bindo writes. Quote Get the psychic being in
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  front and keep it there, putting its power on the mind, vital and
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  physical, so that it shall communicate to them its force of
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  single minded aspiration, Trust, faith, surrender, direct and
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  immediate detection of whatever is wrong in the nature and turn
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  towards ego and error away from light and truth.
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  Eliminate egoism in all its forms.
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  Eliminated from every movement of your consciousness.
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  Develop the cosmic consciousness.
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  Let the egocentric outlook disappear in wideness,
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  impersonality, the sense of the cosmic Divine, the perception of
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  universal forces, the realization and understanding of
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  the cosmic manifestation, the play.
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  Find in place of ego, the True Being, a portion of the Divine,
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  issued from the world Mother and an instrument of the
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  manifestation. This sense of being, a portion
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  of the Divine and an instrument should be free from all pride,
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  sense of claim of ego, or assertion of superiority, demand
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  or desire. For if these elements are there,
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  then it is not the true thing. Most, in doing yoga live in the
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  mind, vital, physical, lit up occasionally or to some extent
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  by the higher mind and by the illumined mind.
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  But to prepare for the supermental change it is
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  necessary, as soon as personally the time has come, to open up to
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  the intuition and the Overmind, so that these may make the whole
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  being and the whole nature ready for the supermental change.
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  Allow the consciousness quietly to develop and widen, and the
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  knowledge of these things will progressively come.
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  Calm discrimination, detachment, but not indifference are all
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  very important, for their opposites impede very much the
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  transforming action. Intensity of aspiration should
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  be there, but it must go along with these.
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  No hurry, no inertia, neither rajasic over eagerness nor
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  temasic discouragement. A steady and persistent but
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  quiet call and working. No snatching or clutching at
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  realization, but allowing realization to come from within
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  and above, and observing accurately its field, its
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  nature, its limits. Let the power of the Mother work
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  in you, but be careful to avoid any mixture or substitution in
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  its place of either a magnified ego working or a force of
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  ignorance presenting itself as truth.
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  Aspire especially for the elimination of all obscurity and
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  unconsciousness in the Nature. These are the main conditions of
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  preparation for the Super mental change, but none of them is easy
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  and they must be complete before the Nature can be said to be
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  ready. If the true attitude, psychic,
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  unegoistic, open only to the Divine force can be established,
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  then the process can go on much more quickly.
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  To take and keep the true attitude to further the change
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  in oneself is the help that can be given, the one thing asked to
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  assist the general change. End Quote Reference Srioro
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  Bindao, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2 Faith, Aspiration, Surrender,
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  pages 36 to 38.