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Two Key Forms of Aspiration in the Spiritual Seeking · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The Yoga of Knowledge focuses on the realization of the self, the
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  consciousness above which is free from the illusions of the
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  external life that most people lead.
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  The Yoga of Devotion focuses on the realization of the psychic
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  being, which turns the being and the sense towards the divine.
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  The practice of yoga is not a matter of intellectual
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  understanding or sentimental adherence to a particular form
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  or doctrine. Yoga is an experiential science.
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  Those seekers who are guided more towards the aspiration for
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  liberation from the strictures of mind, life and body tend to
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  focus their attention above and relate themselves to the vast
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  infinite consciousness. Those seekers were guided more
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  toward the aspiration for transformation of human life
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  into something deeper and truer, find their natural seat of focus
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  and aspiration in the space behind the heart.
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  Each of these forms of aspiration provide a starting
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  point for the spiritual seekers development and eventually for
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  those who are called towards transformation rather than
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  denial of life. They both wind up coming into
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  play. Sriora Bindu observes quote.
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  The Bindu seen above may be a symbolic way of seeing the
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  Jeevatman, the portion of the divine.
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  The aspiration there would naturally be for the opening of
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  the higher consciousness so that the being may dwell there and
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  not in the ignorance. The Jeevatman is already one
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  with the Divine in reality, but what is needed is that the rest
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  of the consciousness should realize it.
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  The aspiration of the psychic being is for the opening of the
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  whole lower nature, mind, vital body to the Divine, for the love
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  and union with the Divine, for its presence and power within
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  the heart, for the transformation of the mind, life
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  and body by the descent of the higher consciousness into this
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  instrumental being and nature. Both aspirations are essential
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  and indispensable for the fullness of this Yoga.
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  When the psychic imposes its aspiration on the mind, vital
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  and body, then they too aspire, and this is what was felt as the
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  aspiration from the level of the lower being.
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  The aspiration felt above is that of the Jeev Atman for the
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  higher consciousness with its realization of the One to
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  manifest in the being. Therefore both aspirations help
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  each other. The seeking of the lower being
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  is necessarily at first intermittent and oppressed by
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  the ordinary consciousness. It has by Sadhna to become
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  clear, constant, strong and enduring.
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  End Quote Reference Srioro Bindo and the Mother the psychic being
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  soul, its nature, mission and evolution Section 1 Meaning and
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  nature of the Psychic being page 20.