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Escaping the Conflict and Battle of Thoughts in the Mind · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Through the process of affinity and filtration of thoughts.
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  When we remain in the plane of the mind, we experienced the
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  struggle and resistance of competing thoughts that appear
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  to be in many cases chaotic in nature.
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  Fighting with these thoughts struggling suppressing, all turn
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  out to be counterproductive strategies as they only
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  intensify the conflict in the mind.
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  There are two basic methods proposed by the mother, to shift
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  the attention away from these thoughts.
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  One of these is to rise above to a higher plane of mental
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  Consciousness, or beyond that to the spiritual consciousness.
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  The other is to focus the mind on some concentrated form of
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  work or outward oriented attention.
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  In either case, when the focus shifts away from the level that
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  receives an attends to these thoughts, they lose their Force
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  at least temporarily while the attention goes out.
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  We're or more permanently. As one makes the shift of
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  Consciousness to the higher spiritual Realms and takes the
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  standpoint of the witness from that level the mother notes
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  quote, if you know, how to rise to a higher level, simply into a
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  region of the speculative mind, which is not quite the ordinary
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  physical mind. You can see all this play and
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  all this struggle, all this conflict.
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  All these contradictions, as a curiosity, which does not touch
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  or affect you, if you rise a step higher and still and see
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  the goal towards which you want to go, You will gradually come
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  to discern between ideas, favorable to your progress,
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  which you will keep and ideas opposed to this progress, which
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  harm and impair it and from above you will have the power to
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  set them aside calmly without being otherwise affected by
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  them. But if you remain there at that
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  level in the midst of that confusion and conflict, well,
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  you risk getting a headache. The best thing to do is to
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  occupy yourself with something practical, which will compel you
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  to concentrate specially studies work or some physical occupation
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  for the body, which demands, attention, anything at all that
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  forces. You to concentrate on what you
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  are doing, and no longer be a prey to these ramblings.
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  But if you have The Misfortune to remain there and look at
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  them, then surely, as I said, you will get a headache for.
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  It is a problem, which must be resolved, either by a descent
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  into the Practical life, and a concentration on some practical
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  effort or else by a rising above and looking from above, at all.
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  This chaos. So, as to be able to bring some
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  order into it and set it, right? But one must never remain on the
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  same plane is the plane, which is no good either.
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  For physical or moral Health. In quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother living within the yoga approach to
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  psychological health and growth, disturbances of Mind unruly and
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  perturbing thoughts Pages 35 to 40 3,