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Self-Knowledge and Self-Mastery · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The purpose of attaining. Self-knowledge is not to create
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  an intellectual framework and be able to learnedly expound on a
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  subject. Rather self-knowledge imply that
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  the Seeker has a purpose behind the effort.
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  This purpose maybe to find a way to gain Liberation from the
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  existing life to escape the sense of Illusion that permeates
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  all goals and actions of the external life.
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  Or it may be as SRI aurobindo and the mother indicate to gain
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  self Mastery over the external nature and thereby, prepare the
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  being for the next stage of evolutionary development.
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  In the Divine manifestation, dr. Dalal writes, quote self
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  understanding must lead to self mastery.
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  That's the mother explaining the meaning of her phrase to know
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  oneself and control. Oneself says, this means to be
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  conscious of one's inner truth. Conscious of the different parts
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  of ones being and their respective functions.
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  You must know why you do this. Why you do that?
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  You must know your thoughts, know your feelings, all your
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  activities, all your movements of what you are.
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  Purple Etc. And to know oneself is not
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  enough. This knowledge must bring a
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  conscious control to know oneself.
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  Perfectly is to control oneself perfectly Dr. Dalal concludes.
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  These statements imply that an understanding of the different
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  parts of ones being constituting.
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  Our different selves must result in self control and self
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  Mastery. If the mental understanding is
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  to become true self knowledge but true self Mastery.
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  Can come about only when the different parts of the being
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  which are normally divided and conflicted are unified around
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  the inmost. Center of our being the sole or
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  psychic being. As the mother remarks, this
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  unification is indispensable if when wants to be the master of
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  ones being and of all its actions.
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  Reference SRI aurobindo and the mother.
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  Our many selves practical yogic psychology preface Pages.
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  Roman 14 to 15.