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Following the Unique Path of One’s Deepest Aspiration to Spiritual Realisation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is a somewhat difficult concept.
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  For most people to accept that. Each individual has his own
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  spiritual path and realization before him, and that it is.
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  Therefore neither appropriate. Nor fruitful to spend time
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  trying to either criticize or convert.
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  Others to one's own path review or to attempt to adopt or copy
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  the methods or focus of another individual.
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  Each individual comes into the world with a set of issues and
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  difficulties that represent, the challenges that individual is to
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  face in this lifetime. The idea of uniqueness is at the
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  same time, combined with the complexity of what we call
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  synchronicity, which brings together each of the Unique
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  Individuals, and circumstances into a web of interaction.
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  Which help us to understand our own role and our relation to the
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  wider collectivities by reflecting back to us exactly
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  what it is. Our energy and Direction call
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  for a specific set of practices or a specific mindset.
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  May be helpful to one individual while at the same time, being
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  counterproductive to another There may be certain elements
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  that correspond between individuals with similar
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  affinity and thus we can learn from others while maintaining
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  our clear Insight internally to the uniqueness of our own path.
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  What we can learn from observing, others may be
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  positive steps, we can incorporate into our own
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  Spiritual Development or may even represent examples that
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  should not be followed understanding, which things to
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  adopt and which things to avoid requires an inner awareness and
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  Awakening to our souls aspiration and a recognition of
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  this uniqueness and responsibility to carry out the
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  deepest. Radiation within us.
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  It is much easier in a certain sense to Simply avoid this type
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  of deep inner review and follow along with others who seem to
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  have a way or path that we find to be either successful or which
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  seems to engender happiness. Yet in the end, this may prove
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  to be an illusion and a setback. The deeper questions of how to
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  find and stick to one's own path and Direction and how to avoid
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  the potential for misdirection that results from taking a
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  unique approach are of tremendous relevance as we
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  Aspire and grow spiritually. The mother observes quote, you
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  stopped short at the Perfection that others should realize and
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  you are seldom conscious of the goal.
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  You should be pursuing yourself. If you are conscious of it,
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  well, then begin with the work, which is given to you.
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  That is to say, realize what you have to do, and do not concern
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  yourself with what others do because after all it is not your
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  business. And the best way to the true
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  attitude is simply to say all those around me all the
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  circumstances of my life. All the people near me are a
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  mirror held up to me by the Divine.
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  Consciousness to show me the progress, I must make everything
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  that shocks, me, and others means a work, I have to do in
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  myself. And perhaps if one carried True
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  Perfection in oneself one would discover it more often in
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  others. and quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health and growth
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  exercises for growth and Mastery using Life as a mirror Pages,
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