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Observing the Inherited and Environmental Influences on One’s Character from the Standpoint of the Psychic Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When the individual is able to shift out of the standpoint of
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  the ego personality to that of the soul, the psychic beam, he
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  is able to observe and Trace the influences of inherited
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  Tendencies or environmental pressures that Bubble Up from
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  the sub content and try to gain admittance and acceptance into
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  his active outer nature. The Tendencies are as clearly
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  defined as When one sees a physical resemblance between a
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  mother and a daughter, or father and son, the individual can see
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  more than physical characteristics.
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  However, including vital responses habits of emotion,
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  habits of speech, and habits of mind, The individual can also
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  Trace out the sources of other influences that come from
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  family, friends relations as well as the community, the
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  educational system and the Very force of the time and it's wider
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  pressures. The psychic being also has the
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  ability to attract to it. The needed circumstances for the
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  souls purpose in this lifetime to be fulfilled.
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  People speak of coincidence. When the soul is active, The
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  Coincidence, the synchronicity are part of a process of the
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  Soul, bringing to itself. Those energies and events that
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  it needs in order to develop, sometimes these things may even
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  appear to be negative events. If the outer personality is
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  stuck while the soul demands, change the soul can see patterns
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  related Ation ships and active forces from this new light and
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  does not take things personally. As the ego personality tends to
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  do life seen from this standpoint is a miraculous
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  concatenation of energies moving towards or sense of universal
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  Oneness and inclusion. The individual no longer is
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  oppressed by the old habits, traditions, and ways of doing
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  things. What is liberated through this
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  knowledge? Those things that are useful can
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  be kept in modified those that are obsolete.
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  Were counterproductive can be eliminated, the mother observes.
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  If you have within you a psychic being sufficiently awake to
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  watch over you to prepare your path, it can draw towards you
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  things, which help you draw people, books, circumstances,
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  all sorts of little coincidences, which come to you
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  as Brought by some benevolent will and give you an indication,
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  a help a support to take decisions and turn you in the
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  right direction. But once you have taken this
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  decision, once you've decided to find the truth of your being,
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  once you start sincerely on the road then everything seems to
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  conspire to help you to advance. And if You observe carefully,
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  you see, gradually the source of your R difficulties.
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  Wait a minute. This failing was in my father,
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  do this habit was my mother's. Oh my grandmother was like this,
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  my grandfather was like that or it could well be the nurse who
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  took care of you. When you were small or brothers
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  and sisters who played with you, the little friends you met and
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  you will find that all this was there in this person or that or
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  the other But if you continue to be sincere, you find you can
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  cross all this quite calmly and after a time, you cut all the
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  Moorings with which you were born, break, the chains and go
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  freely on the path and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the
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  mother living with him, the yoga approached, a psychological
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  health and growth, disturbances of the sub-continent collective
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  subconscious. Influences Pages 111 to 118.