Aids in Attaining Spiritual Realisation: the Scripture and the Guru

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A written scripture or teaching
may help direct the focus of the

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mind and the Heart toward the
realization to be gained no

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book.
However, can replace the

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experience and an intellectual
understanding does not

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constitute spiritual knowledge.
Spiritual experience comes

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through receptivity to the
vibratory pattern to be evoked

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in the being, the scripture, the
word.

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Word helps to tune the
Consciousness toward the right

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vibratory pattern.
It is then necessary for the

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individual to both except the
pattern and learn how to hold it

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steady in the being as it works
to transform the mind, the Life

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Energy and even the body.
Thus the specific Doctrine, the

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specific scripture is not
required to have the spiritual

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opening and experience.
What is needed, is an

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implementation of whichever
scripture?

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One is following in one's own
life.

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The difficulties involved in
doing this on ones, own with the

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potential for misunderstanding
misapplication and misdirection

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are enormous.
And thus, the aid of an

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experienced guide or Guru is
frequently needed to Aid in this

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tuning process, the ability of
the teacher to receive and hold

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the vibratory pattern is a
relayed to the individual

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speaker.
Instruction in this sense is not

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necessarily or at these, not
primarily intellectual, but

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consists of the creation of an
atmosphere that surrounds

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supports and guides the Seeker.
SRI aurobindo writes, quote,

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ordinarily, the word, from
without representative of the

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Divine is needed, as an aid in
the work of self unfolding.

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And it may be either a word from
the past or the more powerful

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word of the living Guru.
In some cases, this

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representative word is only
taken as a sort of excuse for

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the inner power to awaken and
manifest.

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It is as it were a concession of
the omnipotent and omniscient

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Divine to the generality of a
law.

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That governs nature. thus, it is
said, in the opening shots of

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Krishna, son of devaki, that he
received a word of the Rishi

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Gora and had the knowledge So
ramakrishna having attained by

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his own internal effort to
Central, illumination accepted

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several teachers in the
different Paths of yoga, but

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always showed in the manner.
And swiftness of his

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realization, that this
acceptance was a concession to

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the general rule by which
effective knowledge must be

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received as by a disciple, from
a guru, but usually the

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representative It's occupies a
much larger place in the life of

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the Sadiq.
If the yoga is Guided by a

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received written shastra, some
word from the past, which

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embodies the experience of
former yoga means, it may be

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practice, either by personal
effort alone or with the aid of

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a guru.
The spiritual knowledge is then

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gained through meditation on the
truths that are taught And it is

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made living in conscious by
their realization, in the

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personal experience, the yoga
proceeds by the results of

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prescribed methods taught in a
scripture or a tradition and

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reinforced and illumined, by the
instructions of the master.

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This is a narrower practice but
safe and effective within its

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limits because it follows a well
Beaten Track to a long familiar

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goal in quote reference SRI
aurobindo and the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 3 growth of
Consciousness basic requisites

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Pages 46 to 47 This is a
narrower practice but safe and

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effective within its limits
because it follows a well Beaten

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Track to a long familiar goal in
quote reference SRI aurobindo

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and the mother growing within
the psychology of inner

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development.
Chapter 3 growth of

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Consciousness basic requisites
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