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Comparison of the Highest Ideal of the Ordinary Human Life and the Divine Life of the Spiritual Aspirant · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  People in modern society are confused about the meaning
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  purpose, significance and value of their lives.
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  The society sets goals for them. That involve for the most part
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  material satisfactions through acquisition of wealth, family,
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  and enjoyment, without any further Insight provided as to
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  why one should be doing these things.
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  At some point, many people become disillusioned with these
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  objectives and faced a crisis, and reach a turning point where
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  they either move towards mindless enjoyment of the
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  proffered objects of the senses or through some intermediate
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  goal of gaining power and influence in society or in some
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  cases. When they recognize the
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  transitory nature of these things, they turn away from the
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  entire program and seek to take up The practice of self finding
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  whether through meditation prayer or some type of spiritual
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  practice or Vision Quest in the West.
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  In particular, the objectives of the life of society are not
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  clearly defined and people may wander aimlessly through their
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  lives, in the Hindu tradition, the ordinary human life was
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  defined by set goals and stages as SRI aurobindo briefly
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  describes here. ER, Further.
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  The stage leading to spiritual realization was included as one
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  of the objectives. When the individual had reached
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  the Pinnacle of human success, or determine the illusory nature
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  of that success. SRI, aurobindo observes quote,
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  apart from external things. There are two possible in our
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  ideals which a man can follow. The first is the highest ideal
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  of ordinary human life. And the other, the Divine ideal
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  of yoga, the ideal of human life is to establish over the whole
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  being the control of a clear. Strong and rational mind and a
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  right and rational will to master the emotional, vital and
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  physical being create, a Harmony of the whole and develop the
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  capacities, whatever they are and fulfill them.
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  Life in the terms of Hindu, thought it is to enthrone.
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  The rule of the purified and set booty.
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  Follow the Dharma fulfilling ones, own sweat Dharma and doing
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  the work proper to one's capacities and satisfy, Kama and
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  artha under the control of the booty, and the Dharma, the
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  object of the Divine Life. On the other hand is to realize
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  when Ty is self, To realize God, and to put the whole being into
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  harmony with the truth of the highest self or the law of the
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  divine nature, to find one's own Divine capacities, greater small
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  and fulfill them in life as a sacrifice to the highest, or is
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  it true? Instrument of the Divine Shakti
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  and quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga, Watched a psychological health and growth,
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  disturbances of the body and physical Consciousness.
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  Healing the nerves Pages 101 to 107.