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Overcoming Fatigue and Lack of Energy Through Receptivity to the Higher Planes of Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  People who reside in communities adjacent to the beach regularly
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  see visitors stretched out on the sand, ostensibly sleeping
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  while working on their tan, in some cases for the entire stay
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  of a vacation. When asked, these people
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  indicate that they are taking a well earned vacation and just
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  want to have an opportunity to rest, shut down their mental
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  faculties and absorb the sun's rays.
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  They do not speak about trying to achieve any higher state of
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  conscious awareness. Rather they do what they can to
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  reduce the conscious state to the absolute minimum of the body
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  consciousness as may be possible.
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  This relatively innocuous situation may replace many other
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  forms of dissipation, such as getting drunk or getting high on
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  drugs, or engaging in promiscuous sex, or engaging in
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  otherwise mindless activities simply to have fun.
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  Then there is the consumption of mass media, whether television,
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  motion pictures or social media on the Internet, and the
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  engagement in various forms of behaviour that waste time and
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  focus, such as having arguments on the Internet or using social
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  media to demean or belittle others for something in their
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  appearance or lifestyle. All of these then become part of
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  the burden that gets stored away in the memory and in the very
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  cells of the body, and thus can rise up whenever the proper
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  trigger of sight, sound, smell or touch opens up that capsule
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  of memory. It is no wonder then that when
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  an individual turns to spiritual development, he finds there is
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  an entire habitual pattern of triggered memories and reactions
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  that come up continually and work to obstruct or divert the
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  attention from the focus on the spiritual pursuits.
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  It may be a song from 1's youth or some experience one had along
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  the way that rises up and needs to be dealt with in some fashion
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  in order for the focus on the spiritual progress to be
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  restored and become effective. The seeker soon begins to
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  recognize that all acts of dissipation, lowering of the
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  consciousness, whether resurrected from the past or
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  occurring as part of a present response pattern, cause
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  tremendous tiredness and fatigue, both through the
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  sapping of energy and through the closing off of access to
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  sources of new energy from a higher level of consciousness.
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  As the seeker begins to experience the deep peace that
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  comes with the quiet meditative state that has turned towards
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  the higher planes of consciousness force, he can
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  recognize that he feels refreshed, energized,
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  reinvigorated through contact with this higher force.
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  While most individuals who have not awakened to the spiritual
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  quest as of yet will not make the effort, the spiritual seeker
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  who has become aware of the differences in these things
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  clearly can get a benefit that reduces fatigue, increases
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  energy and the power of concentration, and thus can
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  become an instrument of both enhanced action and enhanced
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  energy in his life. We frequently find that
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  dedicated spiritual practitioners tend to have
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  tremendous amounts of energy available to them, which only
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  increases the more they tap into the higher energetic levels
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  beyond the normal consciousness of the body, life and mind, the
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  Mother writes. Quote What does that relaxation
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  mean? For most men it means always
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  coming down to a lower level. They do not know that for a true
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  relaxation one must rise 1° higher.
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  One must rise above oneself. If one goes down, it adds to 1's
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  fatigue and brings a stupefaction.
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  Besides, each time one comes down, 1 increases the load of
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  the subconscious. This huge subconscious load
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  which one must clean and clean if one wants to mount, and which
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  is like fetters on the feet. It is not by sinking below
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  oneself that one removes fatigue.
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  One must climb the ladder and there one has true rest, because
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  one has the inner peace, the light, the universal energy.
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  And little by little one puts oneself in touch with the truth,
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  which is the very reason of 1's existence.
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  If you contact that definitively, it removes
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  completely all fatigue. End Quote reference.
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  Srioro Bindu and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 3,
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  Action and Work, pages 67 to 68.