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The Path to the Attainment of Integral Self-Knowledge · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In the Life, Divine SRI aurobindo describes at some
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  length, what he calls the refusal of the ascetic.
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  This refusal is caused by the focus on the attainment of the
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  Supreme by disregarding, or even eliminating the relationship of
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  the Seeker to the life of the external world and Society.
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  He has choose all objectives or goals that do not lie.
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  Lead directly to the Supreme in. So doing, he necessarily treats
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  the material world, the vital powers, and the Mind as a form
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  of distraction an illusion or at Best of being of lesser
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  importance. SRI, aurobindo takes issue with
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  this approach and its underlying implied recognition of a duality
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  of Truth Versus illusion. He maintains that Oneness of all
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  Consciousness and the forms created by that Consciousness
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  mandates that we understand and respect the Divine meaning and
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  significance of the manifestation and carry out that
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  meaning in our search for the Divine and our adherence to the
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  Divine intention. Dr. Dalal notes, quote, the
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  traditional Path of Knowledge, jnana, yoga in India, aims at
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  eliminating successively, the body, the life, and the mind,
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  and taking a straight plunge, by merging into the Supra, Cosmic
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  reality of such eat Ananda However, for an integral
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  self-knowledge, says SRI aurobindo it is necessary to
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  ascend through each of the supercontinent planes including
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  the super mind in the passage to set.
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  Cheer Ananda SRI aurobindo continues, quote, the method of
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  the traditional way of knowledge, eliminating all these
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  things body life mind arrives at the conception and realization
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  of a pure conscious existence self-aware, self Blissful
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  unconditioned by mind and life and body and to its ultimate
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  positive experience that is Atman.
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  The self the original and essential nature of our
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  existence. Here at last, there is something
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  centrally true, but any taste to arrive at it.
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  This knowledge assumes that there is nothing between the
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  thinking mind and the highest Buddha hey parrot us to Saha
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  that which is Supreme Over booty is he and shutting its eyes in
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  sumati tries to rush through all that actually intervenes without
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  even seeing these Great and luminous kingdoms of the spirit.
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  Perhaps it arrives at its object but only to fall asleep in the
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  infinite or if it remains awake, it is in the highest experience
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  of the Supreme into which the self and nulling mind can enter
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  but not in the Supreme of the Supreme para para.
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  The mind can only be aware of the self in a mental life.
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  Spiritual thinness, only of the Mind reflected such E de nada.
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  The highest truth. The integral self-knowledge is
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  not to be gained by this self blinded leap into the absolute.
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  But by a patient Transit beyond the Mind into the truth
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  Consciousness, where the infinite can be known felt seen
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  experienced in all the fullness of its unending riches and
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  quote. Reference SRI aurobindo and the
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  mother, our many shelves, practical, yogic psychology
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  introduction, SRI aurobindo on our mini selves planes and parts
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  of the being Pages. Roman 32 to 33, Reference SRI
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  aurobindo and the mother, our many shelves, practical, yogic
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  psychology introduction, SRI aurobindo on our mini selves
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  planes and parts of the being Pages.
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  Roman 32 to 33,