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Man: the Being Who Worries · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Anxiety arises when we extrapolate from a current
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  circumstance or event to what we anticipate.
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  Imagine, or speculate will follow some of the speculation
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  is logical following. What we know of the method of
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  Nature and the rollout of events through time, although there is
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  no absolute certainty about The Logical result.
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  As there are too many unseen and unknown factors.
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  Which can intervene at any moment.
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  For example, we are driving a short distance on an errand and
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  we expect to arrive in a few minutes time with no issues
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  arising. However, we cannot know that a
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  water line break will close the road ahead of us.
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  That we will become mired in traffic that does not move.
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  And that as a result, we will miss our intended destination
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  that day, the power of imagination.
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  Even if it, Is initially based on some logical.
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  Inference shal process is just as likely to be inaccurate as
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  accurate. The animal kingdom.
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  As far as we can tell lives in the present time experiencing
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  life and not worrying about what if scenarios the human
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  individual actually attends to the present with an ever-present
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  burden of the past and an ever-present.
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  And so the future, as a result, we carry into the present, the
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  concerns issues, and fears that developed in the past as well as
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  the anxiety about what the future will hold.
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  We worry about things that happened in the past even though
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  we cannot go back and change them.
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  In addition to worrying about what may happen in the future.
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  This is what makes the human individual suffer.
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  Far more intensely than our animal brethren.
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  As long as we remain rooted in this mental realm of speculative
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  imagination of the future that will enroll.
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  Before us, there is no simple solution.
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  The developmental Consciousness is locked into this power and
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  gains both its benefits and its drawbacks and limitations.
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  SRI aurobindo notes that the mental Consciousness and the
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  human being embodying, the mental Consciousness represents
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  a transitional phase in the evolution of consciousness.
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  These Powers brought progress and some real benefits with
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  them. But we now experience with great
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  intensity the negative aspects and limiting factors indicating
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  that. It is time to move to a new
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  level and type of Consciousness which is not so wrapped up in
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  the worry of the ego personality about its own future.
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  The next phase of evolution, SRI aurobindo his name, the super
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  mental Christmas which grasps the movement of time as a
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  unified whole and participates in the Universal, manifestation
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  on a conscious and fully engaged level.
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  At this level, there is no cause for either speculation or worry.
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  this does not mean that circumstances are events, May
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  not block the way forward or create obstacles to overcome
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  However, the awareness of the eventual conclusion and the need
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  for patience, and persistence. In the effort, overcomes, the
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  fear of failure and the worry about the future, that
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  accompanies everything. In the human world, the mother
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  notes quote, it is obvious that what, especially characterizes
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  man as this mental capacity of watching himself live The animal
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  live spontaneously automatically and if it washes itself live it
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  must be to a very minut and insignificant degree and that is
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  why it is peaceful and does not worry.
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  Even if an animal is suffering because of an accident or an
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  illness, this suffering is reduced to a minimum by the fact
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  that it does not. Observe, it does not project it
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  in its Consciousness and into the future.
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  Does not imagine things about it gentleness or its accident.
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  With man, there has begun this Perpetual worrying about what is
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  going to happen. And this worry is the principal
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  if not the sole cause His torment with this objective.
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  Izing Consciousness. There has begun anxiety,
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  painful, imaginations, worry, torment anticipation of future
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  catastrophes with the result that most men, and not the
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  least, conscious the most conscious Live In Perpetual
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  torment. Man is too conscious to be
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  indifferent. He is not conscious enough to
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  know what will happen. Truly, it could be said, without
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  fear, of making a mistake that of All Earth's creatures.
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  He is the most miserable, the human being is used to being
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  like that because it is an atavistic state which he has
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  inherited from his ancestors. But it is truly a miserable
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  condition and it is only with this spiritual capacity of
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  rising to a higher level. And replacing the animals
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  Consciousness, by a spiritual super Consciousness that there
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  comes into the being, not only the capacity to see the goal of
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  existence and to foresee the culmination of the effort, but
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  also clear-sighted trust in a higher spiritual power.
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  Which one can surrender? One's whole being, and Trust
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  oneself. Give the responsibility.
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  For one's life, and future. And so Abandon All worries and
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  quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother living within the
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  yoga approached, a psychological health and growth.
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  Disturbances of Mind, anxiety Pages 44, to 49,