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Why? · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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If we reflect on our own lives and consider the people we meet
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in our daily lives, including our family friends,
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acquaintances work, Associates, and chance.
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Those we meet along the way we likely will find that very
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little time thought or consideration if any is given to
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the pursuit of the answer to the question.
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Why? we think about all the little
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details of Our Lives, the food, we eat the enjoyment, we have
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the next activity, we are to undertake our education, our
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participation in sports or other Hobbies, our desires, our need
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to work in a choir money by things, develop a family and
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explore relationships, not to speak of the time we spend in
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dissipation or pure amusement, Few people we meet at anytime
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who seriously consider why they are alive and what they are
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supposed to do with the life they lead.
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There are many who will respond with a purely mechanical process
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oriented answer that they were born out of their parents Act of
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procreation and they don't really have any purpose.
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They will live their lives as best they can and when they die,
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it's over. There are others who accept the
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teachings of one religion or another without deeper
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reflection that they are here for some kind of test or trial.
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And if they pass, they will proceed to heaven when they die.
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And if not, then they must burn in hell.
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Some believe that the world is a big game of Might makes, right?
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And they try to control bully cheap do anything at all to
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succeed in the game. Game.
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They have accepted as their purpose.
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Still others have the belief that the entire life is some
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kind of unreality and must simply be abandoned as quickly
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as possible. But after all of this very
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little real examination, or reflection, actually takes place
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to see if there is some deeper sense or purpose to one's life
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and existence. And if there is some meaning to
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it all There is, of course, individuals, who one way or
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another experienced. Another reality who understand
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through that experience, that life has a purpose and that the
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individual life is meant to express that purpose in an Ever
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greater and more perfect manner. Some experience this through,
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what is known as a near-death experience.
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When they returned, they are somehow changed.
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They see things from a different perspective.
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They returned with a new insight to their lives.
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Others have a glimpse through a peak experience, sometimes an
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out-of-body experience, sometimes what is known as a
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spiritual experience? However, it comes about these
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individuals undertake acts such as a Vision Quest.
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A pilgrimage, a deep inner reflection in examination or
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wind up seeking out, and finding a teacher who has had a similar
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experience and who can help guide them to a new level of
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understanding. These few individuals actually
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ask the question, why? And dedicate their efforts to
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finding an answer? The mother observes quote well
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to find out what one truly is to find out why one is on Earth.
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What is the purpose of physical existence of this presence on
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Earth of this formation? This existence, the vast
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majority of people live without asking themselves.
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This even once only a small, Elite ask themselves, this
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question with interest and fewer still start working to get the
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answer. For unless one is fortunate
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enough to come across someone who knows.
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It, it is not such an easy thing to find.
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Suppose, for instance, that there had never come to your
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hands, a book of Sri aurobindo Toes or of any of the writers or
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philosophers or sages, who have dedicated their lives to this
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Quest. If you are in the Ordinary
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World, as millions of people are in the Ordinary World, who have
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never heard of anything, except the times, and not always
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nowadays, even quite rarely of some gods in a certain form of
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religion, which is more a habit than a faith and which besides
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rarely tells you why you were on Earth.
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Then when doesn't even think of thinking about it, when lives
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from day to day, the events of each day, when one is very
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young, one thinks of playing eating and a little later of
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learning, and after that one thinks of all the circumstances
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of life, but to put this problem to oneself to confront, this
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problem and ask oneself. But after all, why am I here?
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How many do that there are people to whom this idea?
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Comes only when they are facing a catastrophe, when they see
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someone whom they love die, or when they find themselves in
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particularly painful and difficult circumstances, they
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turn back upon themselves, if they are sufficiently
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intelligent and ask themselves, But really what is this tragedy?
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We are living and what's the use of it and what is its purpose?
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And only at that moment, does one begin the search to know in
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quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within
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the psychology of inner development.
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Chapter 1 emergence from unconsciousness Pages, 10 to 11.