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The Growth of the Soul · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We become so used to all of the dark Tendencies hurtful energies
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  and bad faith. Displayed throughout the world
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  that we sometimes believe that this is the unchanging way.
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  That life is meant to be. What we often do not see is the
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  secret evolutionary development of the Soul through time and
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  Circumstance as it weaves its way through its various
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  lifetimes of growth and development.
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  And the interactions that occur with those who are at different
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  stages in their own evolutionary progression, all of which
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  together creates the mixed energetic reality, that we see
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  around us. Sometimes we believe that what
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  we see around us the way people act and respond.
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  The terrible energetic relationships of jealousy, Envy
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  hatred lust greed, misogyny racism bullying, lying
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  self-dealing are simply the way to act and respond when
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  confronted with difficult situations.
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  Yet for those who have begun the spiritual Quest, it soon becomes
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  clear that such actions and reactions are temporary
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  transitory. Phenomena of a stage of
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  evolution through which Humanity collectively is passing.
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  And that just as there are people who embody these
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  Tendencies. There are also those who are
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  advancing and moving beyond the framework within which these
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  things occur. The choice for the spiritual
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  Seeker who does not want to interact in.
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  These ways comes down to either avoidance through withdrawal
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  from the world or conscious adoption of new ways of relating
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  to society and the World At Large.
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  In the past spiritual aspirants are frequently chosen the path
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  of withdrawal from the world to further their individual
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  spiritual Liberation. Many of them have found solace.
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  While others have recognized that they continue to carry the
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  world with them wherever they go until they work through and
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  change the thoughts. Emotions vital responses habits
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  reactions that occur. Within their all-too-human
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  frame. Three aurobindo and the mother
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  focus on The View that in the evolutionary cycle, the
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  transition to a higher spiritual energetic, status can, and does
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  come about as the secret turns his Focus, towards the
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  expressions of the higher forces that manifest as light Harmony
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  Joy, Goodwill compassion, Etc. These expressions are the
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  essential response of the psychic being the sole that
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  carries out the evolution of Consciousness through time and
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  across multiple lifetimes, as the soul increases in, its
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  ability to manage the Mind life body, complex, and make its
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  natural choices for the higher energies that are available to
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  counteract. The darkness.
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  It begins to take a lead role in working to change the
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  heretofore. Standard human nature into what
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  we may call the divine nature. SRI aurobindo observes quote.
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  It is the stolen us, which turns always towards truth.
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  Good and Beauty because it is by these things that it itself
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  grows in stature the rest, their opposites are necessary, part of
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  experience, but have to be outgrown in the spiritual
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  increase of the being The fundamental psychic entity in
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  us, has the Delight of life and all experience as part of the
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  progressive, manifestation of the spirit, but the very
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  principle of its Delight of life is to gather out of all contacts
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  and happenings their secret Divine sense and Essence, a
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  Divine use and purpose. So that by experience our mind
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  and life may grow out of the the in conscience towards a supreme
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  Consciousness out of the divisions of the ignorance
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  towards an integral izing, Consciousness and knowledge.
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  It is therefore that and it pursues from life to life.
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  It's ever increasing upward tendency and insistence the
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  growth of the soul is a growth out of Darkness into light out
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  of falsehood, into truth out of suffering, into its own Supreme
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  and Universal Ananda in quote, reference, SRI, aurobindo and
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  the mother growing Within The psychology of inner development,
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  chapter 8, the psychic being and its growth page 148.