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The True Condition of Progress in the Spiritual Path · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Shri Krishna taught Arjuna the lessons of the bhagwad.
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  Gita on a battlefield. The setting is an important
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  aspect of the teaching itself. The inner growth is not
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  dependent on outer events or circumstances conditions will
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  always be imperfect. If not absolutely terrible SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother developed their work during a
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  period that spanned two world wars a world.
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  Shaking influenza epidemic and a massive economic meltdown in the
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  world as well as having ushered in massive changes in
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  colonialism and the eventual departure of the British from
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  their colonial control of India. But not before the provocation
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  of Divisions between Hindus and Muslims and the partition of
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  India into Pakistan and India The conditions in the world were
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  anything but peaceful harmonious and supportive of spiritual
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  practice. Many people speak about how they
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  would practice. More would meditate more If Only
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  They had the time or if they had a peaceful environment or if
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  they were not pressured to work and earn a living or or or SRI
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  aurobindo emphasizes that it is not the outer circumstances that
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  count nor can they be controlled, it is up to the
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  individual to To find the inner peace, the Inner Strength, the
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  inner commitment, the inner aspiration, and the inner Focus
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  to carry out the spiritual practice and progress along the
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  path. No excuses about the outer
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  difficulties can get in the way of the spiritual, aspirant who
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  is dedicated to spiritual realization SRI aurobindo,
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  observes, quote, the inner spiritual progress, does not
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  depend on outer conditions, as much as in the way we react to
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  them from within that has always been the ultimate verdict of
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  spiritual experience. It is why we insist on taking
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  the right attitude and persisting in it, on an
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  interstate not dependent on outer circumstances, a state of
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  equality and calm. If it cannot be at.
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  Once of inner happiness, on going more and more within and
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  looking from, within out words, instead of living in the surface
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  mind, which is always at the mercy of the shocks and blows of
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  life. It is only from that inner
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  state, that one can be stronger than life and it's disturbing
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  forces and hope to conquer to remain quiet within firm and the
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  will to go through refusing to be disturbed or discourage by
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  difficulties or fluctuations. That is one of the first things
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  to be learned in the path to do. Otherwise is to encourage the
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  Instability of Consciousness. The difficulty of keeping
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  experience of which you complain, it is only if you keep
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  quiet and steady within that the lines of experience can go on
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  with some steadiness. Though, they are never without
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  periods of interruption and fluctuation. but these if
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  properly treated can then become periods of assimilation and
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  exhaustion of difficulty, rather than denials of sadhna, The
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  spiritual atmosphere is more important than outer conditions,
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  if one can get that and also create one's own spiritual air
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  to breathe in and live in it. That is the true condition of
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  progress and quote. Reference SRI aurobindo and the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 3 growth of Consciousness basic requisites
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  page 58.