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Total Dedication to Participate in the Birth of a New World · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When people become totally immersed in something, they
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  concentrate naturally all their energies and focus in that
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  direction without seeming effort and experience the joy of the
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  process. We can observe this in children
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  at play. They become the act of play and
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  don't concern themselves with hunger, thirst, time of day,
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  chores or homework, or anything other than what is occupying
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  them at the moment. We see this when an artist
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  creates a beautiful piece of music or a work of art, when a
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  scientist or mathematician becomes so deeply engrossed in
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  what they are doing that they totally forget themselves.
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  The simplest method is thus to focus the energy with enthusiasm
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  and joy. This may not carry one
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  constantly, as there are moments when the impulse recedes.
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  It is at these moments that the effort, the discipline, becomes
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  valuable so that one is carried through and beyond.
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  The dry spells, the doubts, the hesitations, the dark night of
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  the soul until the inspiration is reignited.
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  In reality, there's a process that involves both of these
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  aspects to reach the envisioned goal.
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  Enthusiasm without any power of discipline can lead to
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  depression and hopelessness when it withdraws.
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  Discipline without enthusiasm can be a hard and rigid path
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  that becomes brittle and breaks under intense pressure.
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  When we begin to realize that we stand at the brink of a
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  precipice and that we have to choose life or death, progress
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  or failure, growth or dissolution, then we get the
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  core motivation. To the extent we can follow the
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  way of attraction for the beauty and harmony that is waiting to
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  be birthed in US and in our world, then we can meet all
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  resistance, all obstacles with a calm and cheerful demeanor.
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  To the extent that we feel the pressure without the act of
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  inspiration, we have to remind ourselves of the choice and the
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  opportunity before us, the mother writes.
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  Quote People sleep, They forget. They take life easy.
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  They forget. Forget all the time.
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  But if we could remember that we are at an exceptional hour, a
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  unique time, that we have this immense good fortune, this
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  invaluable privilege of being present at the birth of a new
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  world, we could easily get rid of everything that impedes and
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  hinders our progress. So the most important thing, it
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  seems, is to remember this fact even when one doesn't have the
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  tangible experience, to have the certainty of it and faith in it.
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  To remember always, to recall it constantly.
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  To go to sleep with this idea, to wake up with this perception,
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  to do all that one does with this great truth as the
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  background, as a constant support, this great truth.
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  They are that we are witnessing the birth of a new world.
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  We can participate in it. We can become this new world.
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  And truly, when one has such a marvelous opportunity, one
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  should be ready to give up everything for its sake.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother The
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  Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 6 Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary
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  Forces, page 156.