Aspiration and Prayer

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Many people confuse aspiration
with prayer, they are however,

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actually two different things
and while they may support one

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another, when they align, it is
not necessary that aspiration

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lead to prayer.
Aspiration refers to the inner

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State of Consciousness that
arises from the psychic being in

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a spontaneous movement of
directed focus on some form of

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growth development or
realization aspiration does not

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require belief in a supreme
deity.

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Although again, it may coincide
with such a belief prayer.

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On the other hand requires
belief in some being person or

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entity to which one offers the
prayer in most cases, prayer is

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connected to the ego,
particularly when it is asking

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for some specific result.
Prayer may be formulated in such

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a way to minimize the ego
involvement, but by its very

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nature, the individual is
creating by prayer, a

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relationship to a greater being
and asking for some type of

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result to occur.
A disciple asks, what is the

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difference between prayer and
aspiration?

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The mother replies.
Quote prayer is a much more

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external thing generally about a
precise fact.

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And always formulated for it is
the formula that makes the

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prayer.
One may have an aspiration and

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transcribe it as a prayer, but
aspiration goes beyond prayer in

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every way.
It is much closer and much more

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as it were self forgetful living
only in the thing.

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One wants to be or do and the
offering of all that one wants

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to do to the divine to be
clearer.

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We may say that prayer is always
formulated in words, but the

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words may have different values
according to the state in which

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they are formulated.
Prayer is a formulated thing and

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one may Aspire, but it is
difficult to pray without

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praying to someone.
For instance, those who have a

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conception of the Universe from
which they have more, or less

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driven out.
The idea of the Divine, there

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are many people of this kind,
this idea, troubles them, the

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idea that there is someone who
knows all can do everything and

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who is so formidable e greater
than they that there can be no.

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Comparison.
That's a bit Troublesome for

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their, a more appropriate.
So they try to make a world

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without the divine These people
evidently cannot pray for to

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whom, would they pray unless
they pray to themselves?

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Which is not the custom, but one
can Aspire for something without

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having any faith in the Divine.
There are people who do not

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believe in the existence of a
God, but who have faith in

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progress, they have the idea
that the world is in constant

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progress and that this progress
will go on indefinitely without

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stopping towards an Ever
greater.

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Your betterment.
Well, these people can have a

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very great aspiration for
progress, and they don't even

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need any idea of a Divine
existence for that aspiration,

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necessarily implies the faith,
but not necessarily faith in the

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Divine being whilst prayer
cannot exist.

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If it is not addressed to a
Divine being And pray to what

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one does not pray to something
that has no personality.

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When praise to someone who can
hear us.

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If there is nobody to hear us.
How could one pray?

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Hence, if one prays this means
that even when one doesn't

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acknowledge it, when has faith
in somebody infinitely, higher

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than us infinitely, more
powerful, who can change our

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destiny, and change as also, if
one prays.

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So as to be heard that is the
essential difference in quote,

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reference SRI aurobindo, and the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 3.

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Growth of Consciousness.
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