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Alleviating the Greater Part of Human Suffering · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The opening chapter of the life, Divine SRI, aurobindo sets
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  forth, the proposition that all problems of existence are
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  essentially problems of Harmony. We can see the reality of this
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  statement. Both in the way we respond
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  internally to circumstances events and our reactions to
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  them, as well as in the way we collectively address our common
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  human needs and relate to the environment.
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  Within which we live. The mother takes up both of
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  these levels in her discussion about how to organize and
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  harmonize both our inner process and the relations of Nations and
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  communities. With one another, the imbalance
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  inwardly comes from overemphasis on either the physical vital or
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  mental levels without an offsetting view.
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  The tries to find the common need and meet it appropriately.
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  And without the core focus of the needed psychic being
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  connection to the divine We can see everywhere around us at the
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  level of society, the impact of imbalance, and the disruptions
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  disharmony and suffering. This causes there is an enormous
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  imbalance of access to resources income inequality and energy,
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  use certain societies, create more waste and pollution
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  including development of greenhouse gases while other
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  societies suffer the greatest. Greatest impact and are thus
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  subject to famine. Drought, flooding.
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  And dislocations, due to fighting over limited resources
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  or mass migrations caused by the underlying imbalances, and the
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  fights and Wars. They cause We see also In our
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  relation to the environment that we are upsetting the harmony of
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  the atmosphere, the temperature of the oceans and the mix of
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  toxic pollution. That is systematically
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  destroying the ocean environment and the food chain dependent on
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  it, as well as creating further disruptions on the societal and
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  individual human levels. If we can begin to put
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  everything in its right place and create a balance find Is to
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  equitably provide Humanity, access to the resources,
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  available and work to restore, Harmony and balance.
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  In our environment, we can begin to solve the problems.
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  That create and accentuate human suffering.
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  The mother writes quote, you maybe five years old or 20, 50
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  or 60 and yet transform yourself in this way by putting
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  everything before this Inner Light.
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  You will see that the elements which do not conform with your
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  ideal are not generally Elements which you have to throw holy out
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  of yourself. There are a few of this kind.
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  They are simply things not in their place.
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  If you organize everything, your feelings, your thoughts, your
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  impulses Etc, around the psychic Center, which is the Inner
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  Light, you will see that all inner Discord will change into a
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  luminous order. It is quite evident that if a
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  similar procedure were adopted by a nation or by the Earth,
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  most of the things, which men make men unhappy would disappear
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  for the major part of the world's misery comes from the
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  fact that things are not in their place.
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  If life were organized in such a way that nothing was wasted and
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  each thing was in its place. Most of these miseries would not
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  exist, any longer and old sage has said there's no evil there's
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  only a lack of balance. There is nothing bad.
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  Only things are not in their place.
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  If everything were in its place in nations in the material
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  world, in the actions, and thoughts and feelings of
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  individuals, the greater part of human suffering would disappear.
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  And quote, our friends SRI aurobindo, and the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health and growth
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  exercises for growth and Mastery self-observation and
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  self-organization. Pages, 126 to 131.