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Jan. 2, 2023

All Knowledge Is Within, Awaiting the Time and Circumstance to Manifest in Our External Being

All Knowledge Is Within, Awaiting the Time and Circumstance to Manifest in Our External Being
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2022/12/30/all-knowledge-is-within-awaiting-the-time-and-circumstance-to-manifest-in-our-external-being/
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The ancient Greek philosopher,
Plato, described the method of

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teaching utilized by Socrates
known today as the Socratic

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method Socrates understood.
That education was not the

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process of stuffing knowledge
into an individual, but rather

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as the root of the word
education, implies a drawing out

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of the knowledge already held
Within he propounded, a series

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of questions intended to
provoke, the person to express

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that knowledge and formalize it
there by in their external being

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We observe in the animal
kingdom, the precise knowledge

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to which we apply the term
Instinct.

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This is clearly a detailed
knowledge that is involved

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within the being and which
expresses itself when the

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conditions for it are ripe.
We also see that the seed

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contains the knowledge that
grows into the being encoded in

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that seed.
And in some cases, this encoding

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is extremely detailed.
Such as the formation and

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activities of the human being,
and all the complex chemical

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electrical nervous and organ
system operations that make up

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the human being all of these
things exemplify.

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The fact that knowledge is
embedded or entry aurobindo

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Sturm, ontology involved within
the being and needs only the

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right conditions and timing to
express.

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Itself or evolve. what we are,
what we are meant to become,

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what our destiny, as a species,
and as individual

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representatives of the species
are all things, which are hidden

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within a waiting, the right time
to overtly manifest, and make

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themselves known to our external
being The great sages of the

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World Council know thyself as
the means to learning the sages

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of the upanishads.
Remind us that thou art, that

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and Council the Seeker to find
the deepest knowledge Within SRI

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aurobindo observes, quote,
nothing can be taught to the

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mind, which is not already
concealed as potential knowledge

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in the unfolding soul of the
creature.

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So, also, all Perfection of
which the outer man is capable,

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is only a realizing of the
Eternal Perfection of the spirit

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within him.
We know the Divine and become

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the Divine because we are that
already in our secret nature.

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All teaching is a revealing all
becoming is an unfolding self

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attainment.
Is the secret self-knowledge and

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an increasing Consciousness are
the means and the process in

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quote reference SRI, aurobindo
in the mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 3 growth of

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Consciousness basic requisites
Pages, 45 to 46.

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Pages, 45 to 46.