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Untying the Knot of the Ego-Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As long as an individual is locked within a framework of
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  understanding. He is unable to truly recognize
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  or exceed, the limit of that framework.
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  The ego Consciousness is such a frame of awareness, it creates
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  the sense of a separate individual apart.
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  And having his own autonomy, in contradistinction to the rest of
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  the creation. It creates a sense of self.
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  Elf and other that drives the individual to see things in a
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  fragmented manner. Depending on the cultural
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  background, this may lead people in a particular society to try
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  to control or gain dominion over the rest of the creation or it
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  may lead to a collective understanding of codependent and
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  interconnectedness that reduces the hold of the ego
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  Consciousness as it raises up the sense of community.
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  This does not totally remove the ego awareness.
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  However, and there are still opportunities for it to set
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  itself in opposition to others. Even in a community that
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  recognizes the interconnections of all nature.
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  The ego naturally attempts to maximize the sense of
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  well-being, Health achievement progress, success, and
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  recognition for the individual. It is bound up tightly with the
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  attempt to control or Master the outer world.
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  It's beings forces and events. As long as the ego hold sway, it
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  is not really possible to gain any true insight to the nature
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  of the reality within which we exist.
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  It is only when we find a way to transcend the barrier set up by
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  the ego and shift the standpoint to a place where we can observe
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  and see the do personality and action that the Spiritual
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  Development can occur. This occurs through the
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  mechanism of the separation of the purusa, from the prakruti,
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  the witness Consciousness from the active nature.
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  This shift of standpoint provides leverage to understand
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  the various forces that act upon the nature and to see and
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  understand the various parts of the being that respond to these
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  forces, SRI, aurobindo notes, quote, The ordinary mind knows
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  itself only as an ego with all the movements of the nature in a
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  jumble and identifying itself with these movements.
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  Thanks, I am doing this feeling that thinking enjoy, or in
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  sorrow Etc. The First beginning of real self
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  knowledge is when you feel yourself separate from the
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  nature in you and its movement. And then you see that there are
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  many parts of your being many personalities, each acting on
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  its own behalf, and in its own way.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother, our
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  many shelves, practical, yogic psychology.
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  After 1 hour manifold B page 5. After 1 hour manifold B page 5.