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Your Greatest Weakness Identifies Your Greatest Strength · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A particular propensity arises through Affinity with an
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  energetic flow through a particular Energy Center, where
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  chakra, if the individual is receptive on that level, he is
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  able to manifest the powers that are at play through that chakra
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  Center. At the same time it must be
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  recognized that a propensity for the opposite also is tied to the
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  same chakra. As the individual Works to
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  develop the positive aspect, he frequently finds that he has
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  oppressed by the exact opposite of what He is wanting and trying
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  to achieve. It can be a matter for
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  depression or the seeker. Can appreciate that.
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  This opposite propensity can be a means to focus and spur
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  progress in the development of the needed result.
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  It is possible for the secret of recognize, the focus or mission
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  for his sadhna by observing those areas that represent the
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  most difficult and trying of the actions and reactions.
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  He is able to observe within himself.
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  If he is troubled by uprising of anger, he can see that he needs
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  to work on peace, compassion, understanding, and otherwise
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  diffuse the propensity to anger by working through those issue.
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  He eventually makes the needed progress and finds that both the
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  negative aspect has receded, and the positive attribute has been
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  greatly enhanced. There is a motto that says What
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  does not kill? You makes you stronger.
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  While there are of course limits to the application of this
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  motto. It does contain a kernel of
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  Truth in that resistance strengthens the muscles such as
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  with physical muscles, develop through the resistance of
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  gravity and the practice of weight lifting or through use of
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  various tension, resistance bands, to develop the
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  musculature. the same principle applies to the metaphorical
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  muscles of the vital nature, the emotional nature or the mental
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  nature, Through meeting and overcoming resistance with
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  steady focus and application. Each of these aspects can be
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  strengthened and developed. The mother writes quote, what is
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  the meaning of this? Self-contradiction this division
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  in man to understand that we must know and remember that each
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  person represents a certain quality or capacity a particular
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  achievement to be embodied, how best can it be done?
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  What is the way by? Which one can acquire a quality
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  at its purest, highest and most perfect.
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  It Is by setting an opposition to it.
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  That is how a power is increased in strengthened, by fighting
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  against an overcoming. All that weakens and contradicts
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  it. The deficiencies with respect to
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  a particular quality show you where you have to mend and
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  reinforce it and in what way to improve it in order to make it
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  perfectly perfect. It is the hammer that beats the
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  weak and soft iron to Permit into hard steel.
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  The preliminary Discord is useful and needs to be utilized
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  for a higher Harmony. This is the secret of self
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  conflict in man, you are weakest precisely in that element, which
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  is destined to be your greatest asset and quote reference SRI
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  aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 8, the psychic Being and
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  inner growth pages, 151 to 152. Being and inner growth pages,
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  151 to 152.