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The Divine Grace By Any Other Name… · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is human nature to want to categorize and pigeonhole what
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  happens? And make developments fit into
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  definitions of our choosing. The same thing occurs when we
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  look at openings of the spiritual nature and the
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  development of or transformation of Consciousness, not only do we
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  want to Define and categorize but we want to Overlay, our own
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  preferred View and methods on to other people and use that
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  template to try to understand and judge others, their
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  spiritual practice and their inner development.
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  SRI aurobindo reminds us that each individual has his own way
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  to the realization, and we cannot there by either judge,
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  that individuals progress in or force them to accept our
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  definitions endless disputes can thus be avoided SRI.
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  Aurobindo provides. The example of how we understand
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  divine grace, those who do not accept intellectually.
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  Any form of personal Divinity will not accept the concept of
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  Divine grace looked at from their Viewpoint.
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  However, SRI aurobindo finds a way to reconcile.
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  The Viewpoint of those who accept a personal form of the
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  Divine and those who do not The important thing here is not the
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  label, the definition, the framework of understanding, but
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  the reality of an opening, and a transformation of Consciousness,
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  however, it occurs through whatever method attained, the
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  change is welcomed and recognized as part of the
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  evolutionary development within which all are involved.
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  SRI aurobindo, observes, quote, each mind can have its own way
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  of approaching the Supreme truth and there is an entrance for
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  each as well as a thousand ways for the journey to it.
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  It is not necessary to believe in the grace were to recognize a
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  godhead different from one's highest self.
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  There are ways of yoga that do not accept these things.
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  Also for many, no form of yoga is necessary.
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  They arrived at some realization by a sort of pressure of the
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  mind or the heart or the will Breaking the screen between it,
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  and what is it, once Beyond it and it's on source.
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  What happens after the breaking of the screen?
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  Depends on the play of the truth, on the Consciousness and
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  the turn of the nature. There is no reason.
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  Therefore, y x is realization of his being should not come, and
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  its own way by growth from within not by the divine grace,
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  if his mind, objects-- to that description.
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  But let us say by the spontaneous movement of the self
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  within him for as to This Grace, we describe it in that way
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  because we feel in the infinite Spirit or self-existence, a
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  presence, or a being a Consciousness that determines,
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  that is what we speak of, as the Divine, not as separate person.
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  But the one being of whom our individual self is a portion or
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  a vessel. But it is not necessary for
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  everybody to regard it that way. Supposing.
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  It is the impersonal self of all only.
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  Yet, the upanishads says of this self and its realization.
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  This understanding is not to be gained by reasoning nor by
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  tapasya, nor by much learning, but whom this self chooses to
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  him, it reveals its own body. Well, that is the same thing.
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  As what we call the divine grace, we can call it the self
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  within choosing its own hour, and the way to manifest to the
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  mental instrument, on the surface, we can call it the
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  flowering of the inner being or inner nature into
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  self-realization and self-knowledge as something in
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  US approaches it or as it presents itself to us.
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  So, the Mind sees it, but in reality, it is the same thing
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  and the same. Process of the being in nature
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  and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 5 growth of Consciousness means and methods
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  Pages, 105 to 106