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Distinguishing the Ordinary Motives of the Vital Being from Spiritual Motivation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The vital Nature has an innate drive towards fulfillment and
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  satisfaction of desire since most individuals are oriented
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  towards the outer life. The Fulfillment comes through
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  attaining desirable objects of the vital Focus.
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  This can be accumulation of wealth, it can be family fame or
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  achievement of certain goals. One sets for oneself.
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  For some people, this can shift into the arena of charitable
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  work. Volunteer efforts to help create
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  a better environment or improve other people's lives.
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  The motivation behind this however remains for the most
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  part the satisfaction of the vital Nature's push for
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  fulfillment in summer, Inna or another.
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  The standpoint is that of the ego personality and the ambition
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  is Fueled by the quality of rajas for the most part, even
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  if, as is usually the case there's an inter mixture of
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  SEPTA or Thomas to change the nature of the desire or the
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  action into a lighter or darker mode.
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  For those who are called to the spiritual path, the element of
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  fulfillment of Desire remains so long as the standpoint is based
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  in the ego personality. And when references I mine me as
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  the actor and recipient of the fruits of the action As we see
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  in the teachings of the bhagavad-gita, the issue is not
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  the outer form of work done, but the inner motivation and focus,
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  what the Gita teaches is that the entire standpoint should
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  shift away from the ego personality and it's wants and
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  its fulfillment to that of the spiritual standpoint.
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  Where the individual is a Nexus of certain forces and actions.
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  But the work is actually directed inspired guided and
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  carried out by the Divine the issue then becomes how
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  effectively the individual can carry out that higher guidance
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  without reference to individual benefit, fame, or Glory wealth,
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  or success, an interim phase as long as one is still tied to the
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  ego personality. used to carry out the action with a dedicated
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  mind and heart and not be concerned about the fruits or
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  results of the action, which is left up to the new Vine and
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  dedicated to the divine SRI aurobindo observes.
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  Quote men usually work and carry on their affairs from the
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  ordinary motives of the vital being need desire of wealth or
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  success or position or power or fame, or the push to activity,
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  and the pleasure of manifesting their capabilities, and they
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  succeed, or fail, according to their capacity, bility power of
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  work and the good or bad fortune.
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  In which is the result of their nature and their karma.
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  When one takes up the yoga and wishes to consecrate one's life
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  to the Divine, these ordinary motives of the vital being have
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  no longer their full and free play.
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  They have to be replaced by another a mainly psychic and
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  spiritual motive, which will enable the Sadiq to work with
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  the same Force as before no longer for himself.
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  But for the Divine and quote reference SRI aurobindo, and the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 5 growth of Consciousness means and methods
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