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The Psychic Being Awakens Aspiration in All Parts of the Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Aspiration When we observe sunflowers opening and turning
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  toward the sun, we are witnessing a form of aspiration
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  at a very basic level. When we strive to enhance our
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  physical capacities, manifest and express beauty, work to
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  achieve a more pure and powerful vital energy, develop our minds
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  and hearts, we are experiencing aspiration at work in the
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  various parts of our being. When we reflect on what creates
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  this flame of aspiration within each being, we can begin to
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  understand the action of the psychic being, the executive
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  power of the soul that works to prepare the consciousness at
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  each level for the next step in its evolutionary development.
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  Whatever form the aspiration takes, however it manifests in
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  the physical, vital, or mental aspects of the being, it is due
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  to the promptings of the psychic being, the secret Mystic fire
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  deep within that secretly drives the evolutionary process.
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  The psychic being does not try to overpower the external being,
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  rather it acts as a quiet influence.
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  The development must take place naturally within each element of
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  the being in order to be firmly fixed and stable and provide a
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  basis for the next step in the process.
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  Artificial pressure eventually fails and sets back the
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  progress. Thus we live our lives,
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  struggle, enjoy and suffer as we carry out secretly the
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  aspiration that represents the influence of the psychic being.
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  Srior Binda writes quote. This is the function of the
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  psychic. It has to work on each plane so
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  as to help each to awaken to the true truth and the divine
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  reality. End Quote.
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  The disciple asks, Is it the psychic will which wants the
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  being to be identified with the divine?
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  The Mother responds. Quote.
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  Yes, surely. It is the will of the psychic.
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  It is also the very reason of its existence.
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  It is for that it is there, for example, in the mind, certain
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  activities and even at times in the physical and vital awaken to
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  the influence of the psychic without even knowing it.
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  That is why those parts adhere to it and begin to aspire also
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  for the divine knowledge, the divine union, the relation with
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  the Divine. End Quote Reference.
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  Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the psychic being soul, its
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  nature, mission and evolution. Section 2.
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  Role, function and action of the psychic.
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  Page 47.