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The Difficulty in the Process Required to “Know Thyself” · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The vital nature is so deeply intertwined with the mental
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  nature in the current state of human development and has such a
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  force of Desire that it tries to satisfy that.
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  For most individuals, it is very hard to take an objective view
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  about the thoughts feelings. Actions reactions, emotions, or
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  even the perceptions. That arise add to this.
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  The vitals power to convince them.
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  Find the support and justify its desires.
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  And we find that the mental capacity is for the most part at
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  the service of the vital nature of what SRI aurobindo calls, the
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  desire soul, The bias of the mental nature to support.
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  The vital is an enormous draw back toward attaining, any
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  objective view of the motives and forces behind our thoughts,
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  emotions and actions. The Mind puts the coloring, on
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  whatever takes place to create excuses for the vital and thus,
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  we rarely see and recognize the underlying or hidden truth
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  behind our actions. It is not possible to truly know
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  thyself. as long as this mechanism is operative to hide
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  the truth, from our awareness, the mother is commenting here in
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  the light of the following citation.
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  Hope it is only by observing these movements of our being
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  with great care by bringing them as it were before the tribunal
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  of our highest ideal with a sincere will to submit to its
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  judgment that we can hope to educate it us that discernment
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  which does not air and quote, the science of living on
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  education. The mother writes quote, one
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  must be clearly aware of the origin of one's movements
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  because there are contradictory vallot.
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  He's in the being some pushing you hear others, push new there
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  and that obviously creates a chaos in life.
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  If You observe yourself you will see that as soon as you do
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  something, which disturbs your little, the mind immediately
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  gives you a favorable reason to justify yourself.
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  This mind is capable of gilding everything in these conditions,
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  it is difficult to know thyself. One must be absolutely sincere
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  to be able to do it and to see clearly into all the little
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  falsehoods of the mental being in quote, reference SRI,
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  aurobindo in the mother living within the yoga approach to
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  psychological health and growth self-observation and
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  self-organization Pages 126 to 131.