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March 24, 2023

Change of Human Nature Requires the Advent of a New Power of Consciousness

Change of Human Nature Requires the Advent of a New Power of Consciousness
Change of Human Nature Requires the Advent of a New Power of Consciousness
Sri Aurobindo Studies
Change of Human Nature Requires the Advent of a New Power of Consciousness
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The attempt to change human
nature, using the powers of

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Consciousness and tools of
action developed within the

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framework of current human
evolutionary development.

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Winds up having limit set by
that very framework.

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Albert Einstein once famously
stated that it requires a new

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way of thinking to solve
problems by accepting the limits

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and methods of the existing
human consciousness.

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We prevent a new solution based
in another form or power of

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awareness, from providing us the
resolution needed.

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We continue to go round and
round without achieving any

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breakthrough.
Thus, when we have reached the

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limit of the physical vital and
mental capacities, we must be

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prepared to open up to, as yet
unmanifested levels of

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consciousness, which are
available to us, but beyond our

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Event Horizon at the moment.
This requires something of a

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leap of faith.
When we find, we cannot go any

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farther in the old ways of
response.

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All kinds of rules Customs,
mores, mental ideas and

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resolutions have failed to
change human nature precisely

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because they are based in that
framework, The evolutionary

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pressure of a new Consciousness,
beyond the mental level provides

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the direction.
For solving, this problem, the

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mother observes quote, you must
become more and more.

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Conscious you must observe how
the thing happens by what road

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the danger approaches and stand
in the way before it can take.

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Hold of you if you want to cure
yourself of a defect or a

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difficulty there is, but one
method to be perfectly Vigilant

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to have a very alert and
Vigilant Consciousness.

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First, you must see very clearly
what you want to do.

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You must not hesitate before of
doubt and say, Is it good to do

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this or not?
Does this come into the

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synthesis or should it not come
in?

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You will see that if you trust
your mind, it will always

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shuttle back and forth.
It vacillates all the time.

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If you take a decision, it will
put before you all the argument

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to show you that your decision
is not good and you will be

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tossed between the yes and no
the black-and-white and will

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arrive at nothing.
Hence, first you must know

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exactly what you want.
No, not mentally but Through

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concentration through aspiration
and a very conscious will, that

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is the important Point
afterwards, gradually by

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observation by a sustained,
vigilance, you must realize a

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sort of method which will be
personal to you.

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It is useless to convince others
to adopt the same method as

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yours for that won't succeed.
Everyone must find his own

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method.
Everyone must have his own

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method and to the extent you put
into practice your method.

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It will become clearer and
clearer more and more precise.

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You can correct a certain point,
make clear, another Etc.

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So you start working for a
while, all will go well then one

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day you will find yourself
facing an insurmountable

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difficulty and will tell
yourself I have done all that

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and here is everything is bad as
before.

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Then in this case you must throw
yet more sustained

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concentration.
Open and inner door in you and

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bring into this movement of
force, which was not their

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formerly, a state of
consciousness, which was not

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there before.
And they're there will be a

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power when your own personal
power will be exhausted and no

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longer effective when the
personal power Runs Out.

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Ordinary People say that's good,
I can no longer do anything, it

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is Should.
But I tell you that, when you

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find yourself before this wall,
it is the beginning of Something

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New by an obstinate
concentration.

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You must pass over to the other
side of the wall.

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And there you will find a new
knowledge, a new force, a new

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power, a new help, and you will
be able to work out a new

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system, a new method, which
surely will take you.

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Ooh very far and quote reference
SRI aurobindo and the mother

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growing within the psychology of
inner development.

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Chapter 6 growth of
Consciousness difficulties and

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pitfalls Pages 115 to 116.