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The Need and Method to Become Conscious and Change the Nature · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We identify something about ourselves that we would like to
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  change. It could be a physical
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  transformation, we seek, or a way to address an imbalance in
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  our feelings or emotions, or it could be a change to our mindset
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  to overcome ideas of weakness, failure, in capacity, Etc.
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  We then try to find a way to create this change.
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  We may try a new diet. We may take up a new exercise
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  routine. We may change our wardrobe or
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  take up travel or a course of study and self-development.
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  We may go to therapy to heal our relationships with others.
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  We may try to find satisfaction in earning money or having a
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  career or we may take up a cause to try to fix.
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  What we see is wrong in the world.
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  At the end of the day, we continue to try to apply
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  external prescriptions to our internal sense of
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  dissatisfaction. If we examine our inner
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  landscape closely, we begin to recognize that there are certain
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  things we seek in most cases without thought about it.
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  Such as happiness, inclusion fulfillment, and the Goodwill
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  support and approbation of family, friends, and the society
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  around us. As we grow and mature, we adjust
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  our inner goals to include finding and living out a
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  meaningful, and purposeful life that speaks to the deeper
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  aspiration for the reason of our, very existence, as our
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  mental, awareness and gauges, we seek for understanding of
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  ourselves. The world, we live in the
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  meaning of our lives, and the purpose and nature of existence
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  itself. The first thing we run into, as
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  we undertake this examination, is a lot of confusion about
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  things. Why are we unable to effectuate
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  change? That we know.
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  We want to accomplish, how do we sort out?
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  The conflicting motives drives desires, emotions, feelings, and
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  thoughts that are constantly pushing us and pulling us in all
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  different directions. It is in this area.
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  The tree aurobindo is insight about the different parts of the
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  being there, different nature, and drives, and the manner of
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  their action and interaction becomes valuable Even essential
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  in bringing Clarity to this inner chaotic state.
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  The process of separating oneself from the action of all
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  these forces, and beginning to observe them, understand where
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  they come from, and how they arise and what power they have
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  in their action, is the meaning of becoming conscious the mother
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  observes quote to work for your Perfection.
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  The first step is to become conscious of yourself of the
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  different parts of your being. And their respective activities.
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  You must learn to distinguish these different parts.
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  One from another so that you may become clearly aware of the
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  origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses
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  reactions and conflicting Wills to drive you to action, it is an
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  assiduous study, which demands much perseverance and sincerity
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  For man's nature, especially his mental Nature has a spontaneous
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  tendency to give a favorable explanation for everything.
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  He thinks feels says and does it is only by observing these
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  movements with great care by bringing them as it were before
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  the tribunal of our highest ideal with a sincere will to
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  submit to its judgment that we can hope to form an elves, a
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  discernment that never errors and quote reference tree
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  aurobindo in the mother living within the yoga approached, a
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  psychological health and growth General methods and principles
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  becoming more conscious Pages 225