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The Limits of Mental, Vital and Physical Efforts to Change Human Nature and the Need for a Shift of Consciousness to a New Evolutionary Principle · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In his epic poem. Savitri, a legend and a symbol
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  SRI aurobindo rights. Heavy unchanged ways still the
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  imperfect World. The Splendid youth of time has
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  passed and failed. Heavy and long are the years,
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  our labor counts and still the seals are firm upon man's soul
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  and weary is the ancient mother's heart.
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  Pages 344. 2345. All serious practitioners of
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  spiritual disciplines all Seekers trying to exceed the
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  current human limitations of the Mind, the vital energies, and
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  the physical body. At some point, come to
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  appreciate that. The progress they can make
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  within the framework of the Mind.
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  Life body complex and the normal human capacities.
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  Is both limited and subject to dilution or weakening.
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  The reasons are numerous, but one of the primary causes is the
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  fact that we are not distinct individuals separate and
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  protected from other outside influences, rather, we
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  constantly are bombarded with ideas, energies, emotions
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  feelings that are circulating in our environment and from the
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  people with whom we interact. And thus the vibration patterns
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  arrive Rise in us and we occasionally or frequently
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  succumb to those patterns. Another major cause is the
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  limitations of the frame within, which we attempt to resolve
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  issues or effectuate change. As long as we are bound within
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  the capacity levels of Mind life and body, we do not truly either
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  fully understand nor have the leverage to create radical
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  change in human nature. We remain fixed within the ego
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  personality. Even when we are most focused on
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  effectuating change, we must find a standpoint outside.
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  This framework shift to a platform of Consciousness that
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  has new powers of understanding and action in order to truly
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  change Human Nature. This is why SRI aurobindo refers
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  to the evolution of Consciousness as the key to the
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  needed changes. Just as life, effectuated
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  radical changes in material nature.
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  And just as the Advent of the Mind, effectuated radical
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  changes in material nature, and vital nature.
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  It requires a shift to a new form of Consciousness to
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  effectuate. The changes needed in physical
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  nature, vital nature, and the mental nature.
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  This is what tree, aurobindo calls, the Advent of the super
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  mental Consciousness that next evolutionary level beyond the
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  mental level. Until that time, we can Aspire,
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  we can prepare we can work on change, but we also have to
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  recognize the limits of this effort and the need for a total
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  shift away from the normal, human to a new standpoint from
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  which understanding and action can flow.
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  SRI aurobindo in the thoughts and glimpses and tenor e-library
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  volume 16 page 379 States. We have only accomplished
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  weakness and effort and a defeated victory.
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  The mother notes quote through a very assiduous labor.
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  One succeeds in overcoming a weakness, a limitation, a bad
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  habit. And One Believes this is a
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  definitive Victory but after some time or at times
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  immediately when realize that nothing is completely done.
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  Nothing is definitive that what one thought to have accomplished
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  has to be done again. For only a total change of
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  Consciousness and the intervention of a new force, a
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  reversal of Consciousness can make the victory.
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  Complete And the old child and tradition.
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  Very often, the young novices were given an image when they
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  were invested with the white robe.
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  They were told do not try to remove the stains one by one.
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  The whole robe must be purified. Do not try to correct your fault
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  one by one to overcome your weaknesses.
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  One by one, it does not take you very far.
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  The entire Consciousness must be changed.
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  A reversal of Consciousness must be achieved a springing up out
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  of the state in which one is towards a higher state?
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  From which one dominates all the weaknesses.
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  One wants to heal. And from which one has a full
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  vision of the work to be accomplished.
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  I believe SRI aurobindo has said, this things are such that
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  it may be said that nothing is done until everything is done.
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  One step ahead is not enough, he total conversion is necessary.
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  How many times have I heard people who were making an
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  effort, say I try. But what's the use of my trying
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  every time? I think I have gained something,
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  I find that I must begin all over again.
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  This happens because they are trying to go forward while
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  standing still, they are trying to progress without changing
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  their Consciousness. It is the entire point of view,
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  which must be shifted, the whole Consciousness must get out of
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  the rut in which it lies. So as to rise up and see things
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  from above, it is only thus that victories will not be changed
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  into defeats. In quote, reference SRI,
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  aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development, chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness.
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  The new birth Pages, 166 to 167