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Aids in Attaining Spiritual Realisation: the Scripture and the Guru · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A written scripture or teaching may help direct the focus of the
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  mind and the Heart toward the realization to be gained no
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  book. However, can replace the
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  experience and an intellectual understanding does not
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  constitute spiritual knowledge. Spiritual experience comes
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  through receptivity to the vibratory pattern to be evoked
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  in the being, the scripture, the word.
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  Word helps to tune the Consciousness toward the right
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  vibratory pattern. It is then necessary for the
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  individual to both except the pattern and learn how to hold it
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  steady in the being as it works to transform the mind, the Life
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  Energy and even the body. Thus the specific Doctrine, the
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  specific scripture is not required to have the spiritual
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  opening and experience. What is needed, is an
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  implementation of whichever scripture?
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  One is following in one's own life.
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  The difficulties involved in doing this on ones, own with the
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  potential for misunderstanding misapplication and misdirection
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  are enormous. And thus, the aid of an
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  experienced guide or Guru is frequently needed to Aid in this
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  tuning process, the ability of the teacher to receive and hold
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  the vibratory pattern is a relayed to the individual
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  speaker. Instruction in this sense is not
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  necessarily or at these, not primarily intellectual, but
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  consists of the creation of an atmosphere that surrounds
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  supports and guides the Seeker. SRI aurobindo writes, quote,
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  ordinarily, the word, from without representative of the
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  Divine is needed, as an aid in the work of self unfolding.
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  And it may be either a word from the past or the more powerful
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  word of the living Guru. In some cases, this
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  representative word is only taken as a sort of excuse for
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  the inner power to awaken and manifest.
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  It is as it were a concession of the omnipotent and omniscient
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  Divine to the generality of a law.
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  That governs nature. thus, it is said, in the opening shots of
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  Krishna, son of devaki, that he received a word of the Rishi
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  Gora and had the knowledge So ramakrishna having attained by
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  his own internal effort to Central, illumination accepted
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  several teachers in the different Paths of yoga, but
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  always showed in the manner. And swiftness of his
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  realization, that this acceptance was a concession to
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  the general rule by which effective knowledge must be
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  received as by a disciple, from a guru, but usually the
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  representative It's occupies a much larger place in the life of
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  the Sadiq. If the yoga is Guided by a
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  received written shastra, some word from the past, which
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  embodies the experience of former yoga means, it may be
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  practice, either by personal effort alone or with the aid of
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  a guru. The spiritual knowledge is then
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  gained through meditation on the truths that are taught And it is
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  made living in conscious by their realization, in the
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  personal experience, the yoga proceeds by the results of
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  prescribed methods taught in a scripture or a tradition and
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  reinforced and illumined, by the instructions of the master.
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  This is a narrower practice but safe and effective within its
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  limits because it follows a well Beaten Track to a long familiar
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  goal in quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 3 growth of Consciousness basic requisites
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  Pages 46 to 47 This is a narrower practice but safe and
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  effective within its limits because it follows a well Beaten
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  Track to a long familiar goal in quote reference SRI aurobindo
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  and the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 3 growth of
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  Consciousness basic requisites Pages 46 to 47