Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 6 Subjection to Suffering from the Dualities Versus Equanimity

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The dualities were pairs of
opposites are recognized

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throughout the world as a
condition of life.

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Night and day, positive and
negative and all other dualities

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can be seen in material nature
as well as in our Vital and

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emotional existence and in our
minds.

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Electricity flows between
positive and negative poles.

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The pairs of opposites are
seemingly inescapable in our

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world.
When people hear about escaping

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the dualities, therefore, they
try to imagine endless light

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without Darkness, happiness
without sadness, pleasure,

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without pain, they either
conclude that this is an

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impossible task, or they try to
create conditions to achieve

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these ends without, however,
reaching any final conclusion.

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So, what do the spiritual texts
me?

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When they say we can escape the
dualities, they are not

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describing the actuality of
these opposites, but the manner

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in which we respond or react to
them.

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Human nature, react strongly to
these opposites.

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And we thus moved from gladness
to sadness from Joy, to sorrow,

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from exhilaration to depression
in an endless cycle.

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As the Spiritual Secret develops
and matures in his dealing with

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his life and nature.
He begins to recognize that the

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solution lies not in changing.
The nature of the world itself

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with respect to these dualities,
but in the response, when

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provides to their existence, The
Seeker then develops a variety

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of strategies to determine how
to experience the changes caused

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by the dualities, but not be
overcome by them rather To Be

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steady and accept them with
calm, peace and equality

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achieving a constant steady
state of equanimity.

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However, is not the work of a
day.

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Spiritual practitioners may
spend many years working through

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the various reactions.
I'm still find that something

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upsets them when they least
expect it, perhaps the death of

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a loved one or some failure in
the Life Arrangements they have

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made and on which they are
counting.

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As the evolved Consciousness
develops and takes firm.

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Hold these.
Disruptions tend to occur much

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less frequently and with less
intensity.

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An example from an event at SRI
aurobindo ashram illustrates

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this quite well, a Seeker
reported that he had been living

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and working at the ashram and
received a birthday blessing and

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message from the mother on
November 17th. 1970. 3:00 in the

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morning, the message stated live
within be not shaken by outward

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happenings It so happened that
the Seeker went into an internal

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state of deep abstraction that
day and overnight.

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He reported dreams that showed a
tremendous Darkness, covering

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the Earth, followed by a flash
of blinding light.

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He awoke and went to his
position in the ashram early in

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the morning, and when he
approached, he saw the entire

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facility lit up, even though it
was still dark outside and

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unusual occurrence, which he had
never experienced before.

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People were everywhere, he
enquired and was advised that

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the mother had left her body on
the evening of November 17th.

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Somehow the message of the prior
day and the impact of the dream,

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led him to not react, meanwhile
people began to arrive from all

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over the world in tears, as they
entered the ashram to pay their

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respects to the mother.
They entered through a line of

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children from the school holding
hands to create a pathway

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through the ashram The older
sadhaks were all sitting in deep

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meditation, around the samadhi,
generating, a force of Peace.

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A miraculous thing occurred that
all those who came in with

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tears, after passing the line of
children who were radiant came

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out with peace in their hearts
and without further tears.

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Their reaction to the event was
changed from that of a normal

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human reaction to the death of.
Not only a loved one, but a

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guide Guru and mother To that of
the spiritual consciousness,

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that pervaded, the ashram at
that moment.

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Dr. Dalal notes quote, because
of the identification with its

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instrumental nature.
The ordinary Consciousness is

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afflicted by the pairs of
contraries, heat and cold,

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Pleasure, and Pain attraction,
and repulsion, Etc, which are an

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inherent characteristic of
physical, gold, vital, and

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mental nature.
Ordinarily.

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Therefore, Consciousness is in a
more or less constant state of

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disturbance and disequilibrium,
contrastingly.

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The higher Consciousness is
unmoved fixed or steady steerer

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to use another term of the Gita
associated.

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With this quality of summit.
Ah, Equanimity born of an equal

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response to the pairs of
contraries and quote reference

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SRI aurobindo in the mother
growing within the psychology of

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inner development, introduction
Pages, Romans 8:2, Roman 9.