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Introduction to Looking from Within: A Seeker's Guide to Attitudes for Mastery and Inner Growth · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  How do we look at our lives? Do we find any meaning or
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  purpose in living? Or are we just here to live a
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  material existence, enjoy ourselves as much as possible,
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  try to avoid suffering and eventually die without much
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  pain? Many people do not take the
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  opportunity to shift their perspective on life and this
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  then represents the frame within which they exist.
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  They live in the external world without much reflection.
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  Yet there are individuals who, through 1 cause or another,
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  often through traumatic incidents that turn their gaze
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  inwards and upwards, take up what is known as the spiritual
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  quest. They shift their gaze inwards to
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  seek out the true centre of their existence, and they shift
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  their gaze upwards to understand the greater purposes and
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  significance of the creation within which they exist and
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  participate. This spiritual turn reverses the
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  entire way they look at life and provides an existential purpose
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  that motivates them to explore inner space and undertake what
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  Trioro Bindo has named the Adventure of Consciousness and
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  Joy. The present book is a
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  compilation by Doctor AS Dalal from the writings of Sri
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  Orabindo and the Mother, along with a page by page commentary,
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  reaction, response to their statements on a number of
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  subjects, including how we view our lives and circumstances, our
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  insight into ourselves and others, our relationship to the
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  external world and our action in that world, how we deal with
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  difficulties that arise, and various ways we can approach the
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  challenges of life and growth and the significance and purpose
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  of our existence. Reference Sri or Obindo and the
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  Mother looking from within. Introduction.