Confusion About the Real Inner Self and the External Surface Personality Is the Root of Our Suffering

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When an individual takes up the
spiritual path, there is a

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considerable focus on the idea
that the life of the external

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world is an illusion and needs
to be abandoned.

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In order to achieve spiritual
Liberation.

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He sees that a focus on the
external personality, its needs

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desires, satisfactions Joys, and
sufferings, Is a distraction to

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his spiritual concentration.
The answer is done generally to

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avoid the external Focus as much
as possible to allow the

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spiritual discipline to bear
fruit.

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There is not much attempt
generally in this approach to

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distinguish different elements
of the external being or Surface

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personality.
As it is all meant to be, put

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aside.
The fact that there are

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different drivers of
understanding and action in the

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surface, being does not enter
into the discussion.

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If everything is an illusion,
what difference can it make to

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distinguish?
The sub elements of that

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illusion after all.
This is, however, an implied

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acknowledgement of a duality
between the illusory, outer

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world, and the spiritual
reality.

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When one comes to the
understanding that The Duality

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so created is itself artificial.
And that there is an omnipresent

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reality that encompasses both
the unmanifest absolute and the

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Manifest creation, then one can
recognize that it is not the

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world that is the illusion, but
our relationship to it and our

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absorption in it. the object
then is not to try to cancel the

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world and our relationship to
it, but to gain an understanding

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of it through a new standpoint
and perspective, As one steps

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back from the absorption in the
outer personality.

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One can begin to observe it and
see how it is really made up of

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a number of different aspects
based in the physical vital and

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mental levels of consciousness
that are inter woven with each

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other developing a new
relationship to the world, then

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requires a reconfiguring of each
of these elements to directly

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represent the Deep.
Reality and not the illusory

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reality that we have imagined,
SRI, aurobindo, observes, quote,

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a psychical that is psychical
here.

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Meaning inner or Deeper Self
knowledge.

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Tells us that there are in our
being many formal frontal

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apparent, where representative
selves and only one that is

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entirely secret and real to rest
in.

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In the apparent and to mistake
it for the real is the one

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general error root of all others
and cause of are stumbling and

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suffering to which man is
exposed by the nature of his

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mentality and quote, reference
SRI aurobindo in the mother.

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Our many cells, practical, yogic
psychology chapter one, our

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manifold being Pages, 1 to
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