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The Way to Help Others · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is a characteristic trait of the human ego personality that
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  we easily see faults and issues in others and in external
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  circumstances that we fail to see within ourselves.
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  But how do we recognize something outside if we have no
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  way to relate to it? If we do not produce the
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  vibrational pattern within ourselves and interpret it, all
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  of our activities, political, economic, humanitarian,
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  technical, supportive, are essentially meant to comfort or
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  help in various ways in the external life and mitigate
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  suffering to some degree. They are more or less like
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  bandages applied over a wound. They do not generally go to the
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  root of the issue nor provide solutions to eliminate the
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  suffering or the cause of the suffering.
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  The key to getting at the actual underlying issue is the internal
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  awareness of the force that creates these situations as they
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  impact the individual being and set up a vibrational pattern
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  internally. As the seeker becomes aware of
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  these things inwardly, he can begin to act upon them, not in
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  others, but in himself. As he succeeds in changing the
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  impact of these vibrations and gaining mastery over them so
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  that they cannot transmit further through him, he also
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  gains the power at that moment to communicate that capacity to
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  others, not necessarily through outward means, but through his
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  vibrational control. He may be the first monkey in
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  the story of the 100th monkey, or somewhere in between, or the
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  100th monkey, so to speak, that creates the vibrational pattern
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  then available to all humanity. This is the way to solve the
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  issue and help others, which goes far beyond all our external
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  solutions. This is not to say that one
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  should disregard the need for the bandage from time to time
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  along the way. Those who are called to provide
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  humanitarian assistance or develop some external means to
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  help along the way should certainly not be discouraged.
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  Yet the true solution will be found within through a change of
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  consciousness, the mother observes.
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  Quote each one. This totality of substance
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  constituting your inner and outer body, the totality of
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  substance with which your being is built, from the outermost to
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  the innermost, is a field of work.
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  It is as though one had gathered together carefully, accumulated
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  a certain number of vibrations, and put them at your disposal
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  for you to work upon them fully. It is like a field of action,
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  constantly at your disposal, night and day, waking or asleep
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  all the time. Nobody can take it away from
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  you. It is wonderful.
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  You may refuse to use it, as most men do, but it is a mass to
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  be transformed that is there in your hands, fully at your
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  disposal, given to you for you to learn to work upon it.
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  So the most important thing is to begin by doing that.
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  You can do nothing with others unless you are able to do it
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  with yourself. You can never give a good advice
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  to anyone unless you are able to give it to yourself 1st and to
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  follow it. And if you see a difficulty
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  somewhere, the best way of changing this difficulty is to
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  change it in yourself first. If you see a defect in anyone,
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  you may be sure it is in you, and you begin to change it in
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  yourself. And when you will have changed
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  it in yourself, you will be strong enough to change it in
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  others. And this is a wonderful thing.
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  People don't realize what an infinite grace it is that this
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  universe is arranged in such a way that there is a collection
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  of substance, from the most material to the highest
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  spiritual, all that gathered together into what is called a
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  small individual, but at the disposal of a central will.
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  And that is yours, your field of work.
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  Nobody can take it away from you.
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  It is your own property, and to the extent you can work upon it,
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  you will be able to have an action upon the world, but only
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  to that extent. One must do more for oneself
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  besides than one does for others.
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  End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindu and the
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  Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 2.
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  Looking at Oneself and Others, pages 53 to 54.