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Dealing with the Subconscient Elements of the Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As the individual confronts, the various impulses emotions
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  drives, and thoughts that arise and drive his life and action.
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  He begins to recognize that there are elements that are not
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  easily identified on the surface.
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  And that there is something that cannot quite be grabbed with the
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  intellect, which represents a motive spring, for many of the
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  impulses that he contends with. When he tries to control these
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  drives habits, or impulses through the use of mental
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  reasoning or willpower. He soon finds that they
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  nevertheless, have their impact. And in many cases, the
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  individual finds himself doing things or experiencing feelings
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  that he does not want to have. There is a conflict within that
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  needs to be understood and resolved.
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  This has led to the development in the field of psychology of
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  what is termed psychoanalysis, which essentially explores the
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  sub-continent regions to find out from whence, these hidden
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  motives Springs of impulse arrives and thereby, to try to
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  gain some control over them. The problem with this approach,
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  however, is that dredging up the enormous amount of unfulfilled
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  desires, urges habitual reactions, and bringing them to
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  the Surface tends to give them rain to openly Focus.
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  The attention in these areas and actually may strengthen them to
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  a great degree. SRI aurobindo suggests a
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  different approach whereby the primary focus is on the higher
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  aspirations and motives. There by tuning, the
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  Consciousness to Powers forces and directions that are
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  supportive of the higher seeking of the individual and through
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  bringing the light and force with this, higher purpose and
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  Direction into action, removing the energy and power of the
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  lower powers and drives submerged in Subcontinent.
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  SRI aurobindo writes, quote. The sub-continent is not the
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  whole foundation of the nature. It is only the lower basis of
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  the ignorance and affects mostly the lower vital and the
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  physically physical exterior, Consciousness and these.
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  Again, affect the higher parts of the nature, while it is well
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  to see what it is and how it acts.
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  One must not be too preoccupied with this dark side, where this
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  apparent aspect of the instrument.
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  Being one should rather regard it as something not oneself a
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  mask of false nature. Imposed on the true being by the
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  ignorance. The true being is the inner with
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  all its vast possibilities of reaching and expressing the
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  Divine and especially the inmost, the soul, the psychic
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  purusa, which is always in its Essence, pure Divine turn to all
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  that is good and True, and beautiful.
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  The exterior being has to be taken hold of by the inner being
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  and turned into an instrument, no longer of the up, surging of
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  the ignorant subcontinent nature.
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  But of the Divine It Is by remembering always that an
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  opening, the nature upwards that the Divine Consciousness can be
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  reached and descend from above into the whole inner and outer
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  existence mental, vital, physical, the sub-continent.
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  The subliminal all that we overtly were secretly, are they
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  should be the main preoccupation to dwell solely on the
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  subcontinent and the aspect of him.
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  Perfection creates depression and should be avoided.
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  One has to keep our right balance and stress on the
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  positive side, most recognizing the other but only to reject and
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  change it in quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother
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  living within the yoga approach to psychological health and
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  growth, disturbances of the sub-continent.
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  How to deal with the subconscious in Pages 108. 82,
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  109.