Addressing the Process of Evolutionary Change Within the Embedded and Established Habits of the Past That Pose Obstacles to Progress

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The mental consciousness tends
to look at things with a linear

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perspective.
It expects things to

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systematically roll out in a
continuous, directed stream.

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It becomes upset and disoriented
when what appears to be a

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settled result gets suddenly
disrupted or upset by new

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circumstances, forces, or
events.

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The processes of nature,
however, are far more complex

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and the levels of being far more
interwoven and interactive than

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even the widest mental view can
comprehend.

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Because of this complexity, no
progress in one area can

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possibly be fully and finally
achieved and settled, while

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impacts from other areas can
dilute or modify that progress.

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Nature therefore takes specific
types of change to a certain

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point where it then becomes
necessary to address and modify

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other areas so there is a
comprehensive movement forward

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making further progress
possible.

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Shrioro Bindo speaks elsewhere
of the concept of ascent and

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integration.
The ascent phase is the forward

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movement in one area or another.
The progress then appears to

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slow down while other parts are
brought forward and the changes

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disseminated into those other
parts, dealing with the

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limitations and issues of those
other parts of the being that

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come up during that process.
It can be disconcerting when the

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seeker finds that suddenly a
desire he thought he had

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overcome or an emotion he
thought he had under control

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arises and overturns that
settled notion.

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But it is not either to be seen
as unusual or contradictory to

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the overall process.
For instance, we may gain a

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realization in the mind, and we
may be able to generally

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exercise our will to act on that
basis.

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When the force that is working
hits the vital or the physical

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nature, however, embedded and
locked in, atavistic reactions,

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cellular memories, etcetera,
suddenly appear.

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This requires the seeker to
maintain the calm observational

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standpoint, understand the
process, and exert steady, calm

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management of what is taking
place.

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When we look more broadly at the
evolution of consciousness in

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the world at large, we see these
forces at work on a wide scale.

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We can observe, for instance, a
small segment of humanity that

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is focused on spirituality, that
is developing the mental

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capacities and finding ways to
modify and change the vital and

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physical reactions.
At a certain point, however, it

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becomes necessary for larger
portions of humanity to make

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some amount of progress in these
areas for the next phase of

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transformation to take hold and
thrive.

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This is what may be called the
texturing of the consciousness

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of humanity.
We see this working out as

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humanity has, over a certain
number of centuries, begun to

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address the issues of slavery,
subjection of women, and the

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very relationship we hold to the
environment and the other beings

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with whom we share the planet.
While there is no doubt that

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large portions of humanity
remain embedded in the old ways

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of seeing and doing things, an
ever larger cohort of

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individuals are becoming
sensitive to and responding

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positively to a new way of
seeing and acting on these and

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other fronts over time.
This texturing and broadening of

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the impact of the progressive
force of the evolution of

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consciousness makes it possible
for those who are forerunners in

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this area to take even further
steps to advance.

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Srioro Bindo writes quote in the
play of the Cosmic Forces.

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The will in the cosmos, as one
might say, does not always work.

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Apparently in favour of a smooth
and Direct Line for the work or

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the sadhna, it often brings in
what seemed to be upheavals,

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sudden turns which break or
deflect the line, opposing or

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upsetting circumstances or
perplexing departures from what

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had been temporarily settled or
established.

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The one thing is to preserve
equanimity and make an

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opportunity and means of
progress out of all that happens

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in the course of the life and
the sadhna.

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There is a higher secret will
transcendent behind the play and

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will of the cosmic forces, a
play which is always a mixture

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of things favourable and things
adverse, and it is that will

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which one must wait upon and
have faith in.

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But you must not expect to be
able always to understand its

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workings.
The mind wants this or that to

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be done, the line once taken to
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But what the mind wants is not
at all always what is intended

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in a larger purpose.
One has to follow indeed a fixed

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central aim in the Sadhna and
not deviate from it, but not to

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build on outward circumstances,
conditions, et cetera, as if

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they were fundamental things.
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Reference.
Srioro Bindu and the Mother,

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Looking from within, Chapter 1.
Looking at Life and

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Circumstances.
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